Archive for July, 2009

The “Dos” and Don’ts of Graphs

1st July, 2009

I hope that when I die, people say about me, ‘Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.’
Jack Handey (1949 – ), Deep Thoughts

Good graphs are gold. Bad graphs are worth less, worthless.

Recently I ran across a site that takes exception to our common sense approach to training stronger athletes. It’s a typical Olympic lifts are the way, the truth and the light type of site run by a strength coach that teaches the same. The site uses a graph to try to say that explosive ballistic lifting is superior to (more…)