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OFF
THE MAT: WHERE CHAMPIONS ARE MADE
Teague Moore, head coach at Clarion
University is a great example of an athlete going the
extra mile in order to achieve his athletic potential.
He began wrestling at the age of six and was strength
training with calisthentics, bodyweight exercises and
gymnastics-type conditioning before he was out of
elementary school.
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 The Foundation for Success: Conditioning for
Championship Wrestling By Vic
Brown, MS, CSCS, NSCA-CPT, ATC
Find out why the capacity at which a
wrestler can provide energy from anaerobic sources is
more critical than aerobic capacity… Keep Reading |
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 Olympian & NCAA Champ Noel Loban
Ben Fisher interrogates former NCAA champ and 1984 Olympic bronze medalist,
Noel Loban, on his training methods that allowed him to compete successfully
on the international level...
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NCAA Champ & US
Military Champ Ken Melchoir
Ken Melchoir knows what it takes
to win on the mat because he's won at every level - state high school
titles, NCAA champion and US military champion. Listen as Ben Fisher
interviews Ken to find out Ken's "success strategies".
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 3x
NCAA Champ & Olympian Nate Carr
Ben Fisher interrogates 3x NCAA champion and international champion, Nate
Carr about his dedication to becoming a strong, championship-caliber
wrestler.
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Jose
Campo Audio Interview
Hall of Fame Wrestler, Jose Campo, shares his training secrets for
pre-season, in-season and off-season strength and conditioning. A can't miss
interview by Ben Fisher.
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 Interview
with Grappler's Dr. Bryan Briddell
GrapplerStrength
co-founder, Dr. Bryan Briddell talks about why
everyone is so excited about
www.GrapplerStrength.com and what you can expect to
find on the site this year. Interviewer: Ben Fisher
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 Listen to Sandco International CEO,
Richard Sandlin, as he shares his
nutritional advice that's helped numerous world-class
athletes to achieve peak performance. Richard is not
only founder of one of the top nutritional companies in
the world - he's also …
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 GrapplerStrength
Welcomes Ben Fisher
Ben Fisher, a former Virginia state high
school heavyweight wrestling champion and NCAA Division
I wrestler at Virginia Tech is now the official voice of
GrapplerStrength.com.
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Our
junior wrestlers bring a lot of intensity into their
workouts just like the high school guys! "Tornado
Ball" drills will help you develop explosiveness and
better core stability.
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Sledgehammer training develops great core strength
as well as unrelenting metabolic conditioning so our
youth wrestlers stay aggressive on the mat without
ever "gassing-out"
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The
Turkish Get-Up ranks as one of the best
wrestling-specific core exercises because it demands
shoulder mobility, core strength, balance and
stability in order to execute correctly.
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Added 04/01/08
listen to audio interview...
Sean Gray, former two-time
All-American and current assistant coach at Boston University shares his
strength and conditioning program that has helped collegiate wrestlers pack
on pounds of lean muscle, improve explosiveness, balance and stamina.
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 Sandbag
Training for Wrestling Takedown Enhancement
By Kevin Brower, CSCS
Incorporating explosive sandbag training
can closely simulate the effect an opponent’s body has
on a wrestler during a takedown. Find out how to bring
explosiveness to your wrestlers…
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LIFTING WITH CHAINS
By Kevin Lampman
When you wrestle you rarely get into
a perfect full squat or full bench position. Most of
your movements are partial and not balanced as they
would be if you were holding a bar. So how can you train
the whole range of motion at the same time? Chains!
Simple yet very effective, and you can buy them at any
large hardware store.
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 So
you think you have great wrestler strength? Check-out
our two-time state wrestling champion and national high
school career pins record-holder as he climbs the
rope…oops…two ropes in a seated pike position! Now
that’s real wrestler strength!
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The
Bulgarian Strength Bag
Added 04/01/08
By Jason Spector
Discover the secrets to one of the most
effective wrestling-specific training aids for building
world-class power and explosiveness…
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The Bulgarian Strength Bag
Routine by Jason Spector
Learn how to develop wrestling-specific
explosiveness and rock-solid core strength with the
Bulgarian Strength Bag. Top wrestling coach and
MMA fighter, Jason Spector demonstrates this awesome
training tool that is guaranteed to help your
performance on the mat…
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Scott Legacy Audio
Interview
Mount Anthony Union High School in Bennington, Vermont
recently captured their twentieth straight Vermont Public School State
Wrestling Championship, which set a national high school record. Listen as
head coach Scott Legacy decribes how he took over a program that was the
conference doormat but was able to build one of the top wrestling programs
in the entire country!
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Isaac Ramaswamy Audio
Interview
Listen to former world champion,
Isaac Ramaswamy, as he talks about the power of goal-setting, perseverance
and the ability to take charge of the things you can control in order to
achieve your full potential. This is a truly inspiring story that every
young wrestler and parent should listen to!
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Added 04/01/08
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Dr. Dave Gabay Has
Worked With Some Of The Best Wrestlers In The World. A Former US Olympic
Certified Team Chiropractor, Dave Gives You Some Specific Training Tips To
Prevent Injury And Wrestle To Your Full Potential
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 PROFILE OF A TOP WRESTLING
CLUB
This is a great interview with one of the most dedicated
guys you’ll ever meet within the sport of wrestling. You’re going to
really enjoy this interview as you learn how Coach Popolizio has given
back to the sport he’s so passionate about and how his Journeymen
Wrestling Club has helped influence the lives of so many kids!
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YOUTH GRAPPLER STRENGTH TRAINING
Added 04/01/08
Bryan Briddell, Ph.D., USAW, YCA
There is a lot of controversy and debate
on the issue of young children strength training in
order to enhance athletic performance. The purpose of
this article is to set the record straight by providing
parents, coaches and strength coaches with
research-based information on pre-adolescent and
adolescent strength and conditioning.
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 THE FARMER’S
WALK
Added 04/01/08
by Kevin Lampman
Some exercises, although simple, just do
it all. The “Farmer’s Walk” is one of them. People have
been carrying things from one place to another since
we’ve had things to carry. This exercise (when done
right) hits you right in the lizard brain!
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 Grappler Strength Off-season Workout
Added 04/01/08
by
Kevin Lampman
Former Powerlifting Champion, Kevin
Lampman, Does A Great Job Developing Stronger and More
Explosive Wrestlers. His Workouts Include Olympic
Lifts, Strongman Training, Gymnastics-Based Strength,
and Kettlebell Lifts. That’s Why His Wrestlers Dominate
on the Mat…
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IMPROVE THE “ POWER” IN YOUR POWER CLEAN
By Matt Johnson
The Power Clean Is An Integral Lift For
Champion Wrestlers. Now You Can Discover The Secrets To
Developing More Power And Explosiveness With This Great
Exercise…
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An Inside Look At The BU Off-Season Strength
Program
Added
04/01/08
By Sean Gray
Former
Two-Time All-American And Current Boston University Assistant Coach Sean
Gray Knows How To Develop Strong And Powerful Wrestlers. Here’s A Great
Off-Season Strength Program That’s Guaranteed to Pack On At Least Ten
Pounds Of Solid Muscle…
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 Summer/Pre-Season Stadium Workout
Added 04/01/08
By Sean Gray
You Will
Never “Gas-Out” On The Mat Using Sean Gray’s Stadium Workout. It’s A
Two-Day A Week Program That Will Have You In The Best Shape Of Your
Life…
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Strength Training With Sean Gray
Added 04/01/08
There Is No Better Confidence In The
World Than Walking Out On The Mat KNOWING, That If
Anything Else, I Was Stronger Than My Opponent…
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“…The Top 9 Reasons Why Wrestlers Should Kettlebell Train
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Critics of kettlebell training simply dismiss it as a
passing fad without a true understanding of the historical
record and the shared history’s of kettlebell training and
combat sports, particularly wrestlers…
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The Power Clean Is An Integral Lift For Champion
Wrestlers.
Added 04/01/08
Now You
Can Discover The Secrets To Developing More Power And
Explosiveness With This Great Exercise…
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 SUPER LEGS COMPLEX TRAINING
Try This Lower-Body Complex That’s
Guaranteed to “Fry Your Legs” and Build Great
Strength-Endurance… Keep
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 GrapplerStrength Favorites
Discover
the Best Strength Exercises To Make You A Stronger, More
Explosive Wrestler…
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THE GRAPPLER RULES OF LIFTING
By Bryan Briddell, Ph.D.
Steve Hart, M.S.
Learn the GrapplerStrength.com “Rules of
Lifting”, which helped to produce two national champions,
three state champions, two state finalists and over a
dozen other state qualifiers in the past two years…
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Kettlebells….. “the Blue Collar Athlete’s Tool for
Strength and Power”
Article by: Jason Spector
Have you ever shook hands with a stone
mason or a dairy farmer. Bone crushing grip strength!
Unless you have a place to put a cow in your wrestling
room or a stack of blocks, I believe kettlebells are the
answer…
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OVERTRAINING
By Kevin Lampman
It is possible to train too much but if you
listen to your body, eat correctly, and use proper
training methods, overtraining can be avoided and you will
thrive.
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 FEAR OF
FAILURE
By Erin Christopher-Sisk, Ph.D.
“Your feelings and thoughts will directly
impact your performance and success in sports”…
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TOP STRENGTH EXERCISES FOR WRESTLERS
GrapplerStrength.com polled some of
the top strength and conditioning professionals in the
world to find out their favorite wrestling-specific
strength exercises. Our poll yielded most of the
exercises that our own GrapplerStrength.com coaches use
with high school and college wrestlers…
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USING
RINGS TO DOMINATE ON THE MAT
Author: Aidan Howley
The wrestler that knows how to integrate
his body and project force from his legs through his arms
will be the one standing at the end of a match…100% of the
time! That’s why “integrated strength” is a more accurate
description than “core strength”!
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 A PARENT’S GUIDE
TO DEVELOPING A WINNING WRESTLER
Get a first-hand
glimpse of how John Meys helped guide and develop his two
sons to become state and national championship caliber
wrestlers…
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 AN
INTERVIEW WITH COACH STEVE GARLAND – UNIVERSITY OF
VIRGINIA
Steve
Garland, Head Wrestling Coach for the University of
Virginia talks about the transition from high school to
college wrestling and gives young wrestlers advice…
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 How
wrestlers overcome Fatigue in the third period!
Find out the secret
weapon to increase your stamina match after match and stop
the early onset of fatigue…
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Reading...
The Perfect
High Energy Drink
Discover the number one energy drink being used by
world-class wrestlers to reduce the three leading causes
of wrestler fatigue…
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“UFC
Legend Matt Hughes enjoys a break from
training
with GrapplerStrength.com’s Steve Hart.”
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