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
