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The Power To Weight Ratio Is Everything

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by Alec Enkiri If you happened to stumble across this post through Blogger, please follow this link to view the corresponding article on my web site: https://www.enkirielitefitness.com/articles/powertoweightratio The formatting is better there. If you're coming from my web site, just scroll to the bottom of the page here to get to the comments section. Don't worry if your comments don't appear right away. They still went through. Just refresh the page and they'll be there. How much can you squat? A lot? Okay. How much can you power clean though? A lot? Cool. But how much do you weigh? Also a lot? Okay, then let's try this... How high can you jump? If you answered "a lot, alot, and a lot" to questions 1-3, then the answer to question 4 will be "not very" because the power to weight ratio is everything. Big dudes who can throw around monstrous weights are a dime a dozen and I've been running circles around them sin

Blog #3: My Training Goals For 2020, Part 3!

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by Alec Enkiri If you happened to stumble across this post through Blogger, please follow this link to view the corresponding article on my web site: https://www.enkirielitefitness.com/blog/mygoals3 The formatting is better there. If you're coming from my web site, just scroll to the bottom of the page here to get to the comments section. Don't worry if your comments don't appear right away. They still went through. Just refresh the page and they'll be there. Part 1 | Part 2 Hello again, friends! We finally made it to part 3, the final installment of the series on my training goals for the upcoming year! In the first 2 installments of the series we covered my primary power based training goals for the year (Part 1) and my primary strength based training goals for the year (Part 2) . In this final installment I want to go over my conditioning goals for the upcoming year, and I have to admit I am a little bit hesitant to even write up this post! Of the 3 categ

Powerlifting Is NOT Strength Training (And Vice Versa)

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by Alec Enkiri If you happened to stumble across this post through Blogger, please follow this link to view the corresponding article on my web site: https://www.enkirielitefitness.com/articles/powerlifting The formatting is better there. If you're coming from my web site, just scroll to the bottom of the page here to get to the comments section. Don't worry if your comments don't appear right away. They still went through. Just refresh the page and they'll be there. Introduction With the advent of social media and the re-introduction of raw powerlifting federations, powerlifting and powerlifting style training have exploded in popularity in recent years and become somewhat of a niche phenomenon. This has had many positive effects on the fitness community as a whole. It has encouraged many people who otherwise would not have done so to embrace barbell training (as opposed to machine or dumbbell only style training) and training to get stronger, creating obje