Weekly Recap 9/15 - 9/21

Here’s what we are reading, watching, and liking.

The article of the week is a review on antioxidants for lifters with an explanation of what they are and how they can effect training. The video of the week is a video from Alan Thrall of Untamed Strength about how to build your own deadlift platform (especially for our home gym clients right now).

Our first social media post of the week is from Precision Nutrition about Trauma-Awareness and being a trauma aware coach. To conclude, we have a post from Claire Zai about action items and deciding the impact that we would like to leave on our clients and on the world.

Article of the Week

Antioxidants for Lifters: A Review of the Evidence

Free radicals, reactive oxygen species, oxidative stress, oxidative damage, antioxidants, inflammation, carotenoids, polyphenols, flavonoids. This general cluster of terms is often discussed vaguely, sometimes on the label of a “superfood” product, but rarely with sufficient depth or clarity. The conversation typically revolves around issues of long-term health and chronic disease risk, but every now and then it meanders into the realm of lifting. For example, you may have heard that antioxidants enhance performance, or that they impair training adaptations. In this article, we’ll take a look at how antioxidants affect both performance and training adaptations and discuss what this means for your food and supplement intakes. 

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Video of the Week

Instagram Posts of The Week

Trauma can happen to anyone, and it's more common than many people realize.⁣⁠ ⁣⁠ 🚧And today more than ever, it's apparent that trauma of all kinds can negatively affect client progress.⁣⁠ ⁣⁠ 🔑This is why being a trauma-aware coach is so crucial.⁣⁠ ⁣⁠ 💙If you know how to recognize trauma in your clients, you might just be able to help them take steps towards making repairs.⁣⁠ ⁣⁠ To that end, we've put together a list of ways to help your clients break the cycle of trauma ⬆️⁣⁠ ⁣⁠ 🔍If you'd like to explore this list and the impact of trauma further, head to the link in bio.⁣⁠ ⁣⁠ 👉🏼Note: The goal of becoming a trauma-aware coach isn't so you can diagnose your clients. This is a job for a qualified therapist.

With the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg it is very obvious to me that it is not just the championing of women who are at the front that is important. It is a call to action that every single one of us must fight for the future that we want and fight for the empowerment of women and the rights of women as we move forward in our society. This isn't just the mourning the loss of her life and the things that she was protecting. Collectively we are experiencing the realization that we have the ability to change the world the same way that she did and every action that we take has an active impact on the world that we are creating for the women who follow us. This is our fight. It is not just what we are doing today and tomorrow but it is what we have done and what we will do and how we support the people around us doing similar things. So today I would like every single person to take it to moment and just figure out how you're going to push the world forward, how you're going to support women's rights, and what you're going to do to help women be more successful in their own lives. Not because it's the right thing to do or because it makes you feel good on the inside, but because you genuinely and truly care about the rights of women and what we get to do with our lives. My goal is to get more women active. I would love to see more women in powerlifting and to improve women's equality in the sport. We need to lift them up and champion their successes. We need to not sell stupid remedies, not propagate these erroneous narratives that women are weaker or less capable. Ladies you are so freaking strong. Nothing should ever stand in your way and nothing should ever be impossible for you and you deserve to have all of the rights available to you in the world. Every single one of them.