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During our most recent Supertraining Camp, I showed delegates some drills
that may be used for strength, metabolic, agility and “plyometric” training
on the treadmill. Some of these drills involved backward walking and
running, as well as quick changes from forward to backward walking on the
treadmill (take care if you have never tried this before). The following
paper examined some of the benefits of backward running:

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Mechanical Power and Muscle Action during Forward and Backward Running

Flynn, TW & Soutas-Little RW

JOSPT; 17(2), Feb 1993, 108-112

Recently, there has been increasing interest in using backward running (BR) Read more…

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Here is some continued discussion from the IWF list on the weightlifting
pulling questions which I posed recently:

One Supertraining Member contributed the following:

<< After reviewing many videos and digitizing many others it appears that
many of the best technicians in the pull (e.g. Petrov) pull flat footed as
long as possible until they begin the transition pull from the knee to the
high chest position. At that point they seem to shift to the balls of their
feet before they go into the final extension of the pull.>

Mel Siff:

*** But that is exactly what was taught in Weightlifting several decades ago
and is not the much vaunted “flatfooted” style whose merits are so widely
extolled nowadays. Way back then some lifters displayed a high heel raise, Read more…