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Totten Training Throwback: Sixty Seconds to a Quality Workout
All it takes is sixty little seconds to a quality workout! Yes, that’s right, only sixty seconds – one minute. How many times have you...
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Jan 16, 20202 min read
Totten Training Coach Corner: Work Your Weak Areas Part 4 - Leg Strength
From the first article, “Work Your Weak Areas”: Strength – You may have really good technique with lighter weights, but as the weight...
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Jan 6, 20206 min read
Totten Training Coach Corner: Work Your Weak Areas Part 5 - Overhead Strength for Snatch
No matter how strong your pulls and squats are, you need to be able to hold the weight over your head in a solid, strong manner. If you...
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Jan 6, 20204 min read
Totten Training Throwback: Power Cleans for the Strength Athlete
Whether your sport is powerlifting, strongman, football or any other “strength” sport, the power clean should be part of your workout...
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Jan 2, 20202 min read
Totten Training: Feature Friday - Mackenzie Christie
Totten Training introducing Feature Friday! Starting in 2020 we will be doing additional daily features to add to our always exciting...
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Dec 20, 20191 min read
Totten Training Throwback: Featured Book - The Physically Prepared Weightlifter
Leo Totten Writes Foreword for James Tatum’s Book “The Physically Prepared Weightlifter: A General Physical Preparedness Program to Build...
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Dec 19, 20192 min read
Weightlifting: Recover Faster and Train Harder with SMR
Totten Training Systems and Rad Roller collaborate to sharing tips for weightlifters and mobility.
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Dec 11, 20191 min read
Tottenism Tuesday: Less is More
Tottenism Tuesday: Less is More. You see online or you hear through the grapevine that the top lifter in your weight class is training 6 tim
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Nov 19, 20191 min read
THE POWER POSITION: To Lean or Not to Lean
by: Leo Totten, MS, USAW 5 Lately, there has been some discrepancy as to what is the “Power Position” and at what angle the body should...
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Nov 11, 20193 min read
Strong, Successful Women
You may wonder why I am writing an article on strong, successful women. Well, all of my life, I have been surrounded by strong,...
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Oct 11, 20192 min read
Tottenism Tuesday: Confidence is a Product of Preparation
To follow up on last week’s Tottenism Tuesday, I am going to reference Marty Bennett of Rejoice Christian School who had an excellent...
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Oct 1, 20191 min read
Tottenism Tuesday: Don’t Change the Routine
As a coach, I can invariably detect when a lifter is going to miss his or her next lift. The lifter comes out for their first snatch. I...
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Sep 25, 20191 min read
Jerk Strength - Work Your Weak Areas Part IV: Strength - Jerk Overhead
By: Leo Totten Originally posted September 21, 2018 as part of a series As we discussed in the article on SNATCH Overhead strength...
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May 21, 20196 min read
Are Your Cleans Doing What They Are Supposed to Do?
By: Leo Totten Originally posted February 1, 2018 Whether your sport is powerlifting, strongman, football or any other “strength” sport,...
Totten Training Systems
May 21, 20193 min read
Utilizing the SNATCH as an Effective Tool in the Coach’s Toolbox
By: Leo Totten Originally posted December 20, 2016 We all have been inundated with information on how beneficial the Olympic lifts can be...
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May 20, 20194 min read
"SETUP" TO FIX THAT PROBLEM JERK
By: Leo Totten Originally posted January 19, 2014 There is nothing more frustrating than missing the jerk after a great clean! And,...
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May 20, 20192 min read
POWER CLEANS FOR THE STRENGTH ATHLETE
By: Leo Totten Originally Posted November 3, 2012 Whether your sport is powerlifting, strongman, football or any other “strength” sport,...
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May 20, 20192 min read
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