MILO: A Journal for Serious Strength Athletes, December 2011, Vol. 19, No. 3

Cover: Dan McKim capped off the 2011 season with wins at two of the most prestigious Highland Games: the U.S. national championships and the IHGF world championships.

People

• Wilbur Miller: Lifting Perfection by Thom Van Vleck

Training

• Abdominal Training: Back to Basics, Part II by George A. James

• Let's Talk Football, Let's Talk Neck by Dr. Ken E. Leistner

• The Art and Science of Recovery by Brian Mangravite

• How to Back Squat 'Enough,' Part 2: The Schmitz Squat System by Jim Schmitz

• A Stone Lifter's Gauntlet Thrown: 6 x 6 Challenge by Roger Davis

• Practical Science Applied: Staph Infection and Lifters by Brian Jones, Ph.D.

• Foundations: Explosive Exercises = Explosive Gains by Jon Bruney

• Choke Proof: How to Get Peak Performance when It's All on the Line by Ernest Roy, P.T., D.P.T.

• Yang Breathing and Yin Breathing for Contact Sports by Pavel

• Taking Sport Specificity Too Far by Oliver Whaley

• Are Assistance Exercises Necessary? by Karsten Jensen

• Overhead Lifting: The Sandbag Press by Dave Ostlund

• Systematic Approach to the Anti-concussion Movement, Part I by Steven Helmicki

• Muscles, Meds and Mayhem by William L. Crawford, M.D.

• Weighty Concerns: Is Big Always Big? by Lance Holland-Keen, MBChB

Contests

• 2011 IHGF World Highland Games Championships: Sparks Fly on Loon Mountain by Francis Brebner

• 2011 USAWA National Championships: Athletes vs. Iron by Thom Van Vleck

• 2011 IHGF World Team Championships: Team Spirit Takes Charge by Francis Brebner

History

• History of the Neck Lift by Al Myers, D.V.M.

• Lighter Stars of Weightlifting Before World War I by Gherardo Bonini