Tuesday, December 18, 2007

"From handstands to bench presses to jerks.."

Heres a link to a new article I did for Pavels newsletter. It chronicles my path from the always overhead world of the gymnast through the restricting ROMs of powerlifting to redeveloping my overhead strength and stability with the kettlebell. I hyperlinked relevant blog posts and videos to illustrate or detail an exercise or point of importance.
From Handstands...

9 comments:

Aaron Friday said...

Excellent, Rif. That was a really interesting read.

Mark Reifkind said...

thanks aaron, I like how it turned out.the hyperlinks to the blog posts make it a long one but allow for some more depth if someone wants to read go further.

BJ Bliffert said...

Good Read Mark.

Mark Reifkind said...

thanks bj, it's in the mail in two days!

Aaron Friday said...

The blog posts themselves are interesting, so no worries.

BJ Bliffert said...

Yours as well. You'll be glued to the TV, it is old school...

BJ Bliffert said...

The hyperlinks to your blog posts will increase your Google ranking though, so you may get more traffic. It also helps DD's ranking because of the amount of traffic your blog gets. Win Win from a marketing standpoint.

Google takes into account the amount of traffic and content of site that your inbound links come from when it ranks your site.

This can potentially help with monetization such as Amazon widgets/affiliates.

Sometime I think I read too much.

BJ

Unknown said...

Rif, Awesome article/testimony. Can't wait to read part 2.

Mark Reifkind said...

thanks tim.the clubs are really opening up and stabilizing my shoulders in a whole new way.all these rotational movements with resistance are making them feel great and increasing my flexibility very quickly. like weighted z.

190 x 1 x 12, 210/225 static holds, 24 kg goblet squats, floor pushups 30, 20

 This went VERY well almost all reps identical. Realized I get better drive AND minimize shoulder stress if I unrack it with more weight on ...