How to sumo deadlift with Ed Coan

 Ed Coan is arguably the GOAT (greatest of all time) in powerlifting Recently I changed around the way I do deadlift, taking up sumo, to help me lift WITH rather than against my body dynamics and shape. My intention is get to 350kg 771.5lb within the next few years. I've started a video series following my journey towards this target, but thought I'd share some of thr source material that helped me readdress my style. Now a lot of what I know is through talking directly to other competitive lifters (bodybuilders, powerlifters and strongmen) as well as good ol' experience. But this video featuring Ed Coan, was for me invaluable. Full of great info, in a very easy to understand format, this will help revolutionise your approach to sumo deadlift. There are also videos on conventional deadlifts too, which I can share at a later date, but conventional is much less technical than sumo so it's much less involved (though still a great watch)

Carl Yngvar Christensen

For those of you who have a passion for big weights! Carl Yngvar Christensen, started competing around the same time that I started lifting myself. At the time I first started noticing him he was 17. From Norway and the epitome of VIKING POWER! As a junior he was not only getting Junior World records but was also setting records in the Adult devisions. Unfortunately he doesn't compete anymore due to a knee injury that plagued him his whole lifting career, but he is very healthy and in great shape and enjoying his legacy whilst remaining super fit This is a compilation of some of his greatest achievements in the world of powerlifting (and the list is far more than what I was able to rummage together) Hope it inspires and motivates, immense strength!

Confessions of a Caffeinaholic

Welcome to CA, I'm Alastair and I've been a Caffeinaholic for 20years.

And I'm still not clean lol

Alright guys so I've been into energy drinks since the beginning, even when in the womb my mums cravings were for Lucozade (back in the day when it came in a glass bottle from the pharmacy)

I even remember when I was a Muay Thai fighter seeing the imported original Thai Red bull (~23years ago) which was a syrup and at that point illegal in the UK because of its strength!

Anyways over the decades I've fueled my addiction, and tried to stop a few times but failing. Only recently though, did I realise that it wasn't the caffeine I was addicted to but the sugar 😱

This realisation came to me when I first started to try and have the new(ish) sugar free drinks now available, and despite still getting my caffeine kick, I still had all the withdrawal symptoms I had every time I'd failed before.

You can imagine my shock and horror at this realisation, but it gave me the motivation I needed to fully go over to sugar free, not only on energy drinks but in all my aspects of diet.

It's now been about 11months since I have had a sugar drink and all my fears of "losing Size and muscle from the lack of calories" or "being tired all the time" never came true!

In fact the opposite, since I've changed over I've made leaps and bounds in my health and strength. More energetic, bigger and stronger whilst losing size around my waste.

Addiction to sugar is insidious! It's well worth the effort to break the addiction guys!

I'm Alastair and I was a sugarholic!