Written by: Kevin Cann “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacle which he has overcome.” -Booker T. Washington I don’t remember the picture at the top of this article. I must have been under 5 years old in it. I have always had … Continue reading Defining Success: My Personal Journey
Written by: Kevin Cann I had a situation a couple of weeks ago that shattered who I thought I was as a person. I have always held my ability to overcome adversity at my core. It has been my greatest asset. I had received a text message that brought to my attention that I have years of my … Continue reading Sports as an Arena to Discover Yourself
Written by: Kevin Cann I was originally going to write about selecting appropriate volume, both exercises and number of sets and reps, but I feel that just gets lost in the noise of the internet. People only want to read what matches their bias and argue about the things that don’t. Not many are really trying to … Continue reading How Sports Allowed Me to Deal with Complex Trauma
Written by: Kevin Cann We bend over to deadlift, we start to pull, and suddenly, we feel a sharp pain shoot down our leg causing us to stop in our tracks and drop the bar to the floor. We struggle to stand up straight and the pain is so severe that we think we just did … Continue reading Invisible Wounds and PRs
Written by: Kevin Cann The constraints-led approach (CLA) is a teaching/coaching methodology that utilizes task, environmental, and performer constraints to elicit self-organization in skill development. This is viewed more as a “hands-off” approach to coaching where the coach creates an environment that offers learning for the performer instead of using a lot of verbal feedback. Typically, … Continue reading What is a Constraints-Led Approach: Constraints-Led Conjugate
Precision Powerlifting Systems 