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Via Physical Strategies : a great kettlebell collection.

It's been another extremely wet, windy and busy week here at Straight to the Bar. Amid the mayhem :

• Articles : Eric Cressey wraps up the excellent Mastering the Deadlift series with a look at the reasons for employing many common deadlift variants, Sports Physiotherapist Dave Waugh discusses the ways to manage ankle injury during training and I take a look at the idea of walking 10,000 steps per day.
• Videos : A week without Parkour just wouldn't be the same - here's a coaching seminar with some brilliant moves, Kris gets everyone if the right frame of mind for the next Virtual Meet (it's a great clip) and Andrew Durniat makes a couple of 32kg kettlebells look extremely light. Amazing.
• How to : Keith Scott shows you how to assess your hip mobility, Judo Info provides animations on a number of Judo throws and Kelly Mills demonstrates the perfect bodyweight squat.
• Sites : The daily reading list keeps growing. This week's finds included the superb strongman site Chasing Kaz (there's a great interview with strength athlete Mike Gill here), a regular look at the health and fitness world from the one-and-only Tanya Ryno and the fascinating Science of Sport.
• Bonus : If you're a fan of the New York Mets, you'll love this - MetsTube. Video highlights of the world's greatest baseball team.

Haven't had your fill yet of strange gadgets from Japan? Try this - it's a bodyfat measuring device for dogs. From Kao (site in Japanese).

An article I did for Diet Blog - How to prepare meals in advance. As always on that site, the comments are definitely worth a read.

Brian Carson takes a brief look at bodybuilder Angelo Siciliano, better known by his stage name Charles Atlas (pictured here pulling a Pennsylvania RR car). Very interesting man.

I'm definitely looking forward to the launch of Dave DePew's site Powerlifting Radio. Should be great.

The Ice Chamber's Kelly Mills demonstrates the ideal bodyweight squat, and delivers 10 key elements to the perfect form. Excellent.

The mighty Hermann Goerner (6'1, 245lb in this photo) being introduced by South African Strongman Tromp Van Diggelen (circa 1950).

Somewhere between academia and the playing field sits The Science of Sport. A very interesting blog.

I love this. If you're looking for bodyweight conditioning ideas, this video [streaming, 16.9mb .flv download] from a recent Parkour Coaching seminar has plenty of them. Superb.