Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Publications
  • Contact
  • Instagram social account link
  • Linkedin social account link
  • Twitter social account link
  • Youtube social account link

Recent posts

  • Sporting Form and Weightlifting May 8, 2025
  • Look Ahead to Train Today May 1, 2025
  • Old Books Can Still Teach Us A Lot April 24, 2025

Categories

  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Chess
  • Down with Fitness
  • General News
  • Maximum Interval Training
  • Real World Strength and Conditioning
  • Research
  • Speed
  • Strength and Conditioning
  • Instagram social account link
  • Linkedin social account link
  • Twitter social account link
  • Youtube social account link
  • Instagram social account link
  • Linkedin social account link
  • Twitter social account link
  • Youtube social account link
Improving Athletic Performance | An Exercise Blog for Coaches and Athletes
  • Home
  • About
  • Publications
  • Contact

Strength and Conditioning

  • December 13, 2019

Teaching the Clean, Part 1

The power clean is a major lift in an athletic strength and conditioning program.  It is also a lift that can be challenging to teach and coach with a large group of...

Continue Reading
  • December 8, 2019

Applying The Weight Room To The Sport

A few days ago I put out a Tweet about relating strength and conditioning coaching cues to the cues that sport coaches used.  The idea behind this Tweet was that this helps...

Continue Reading
  • November 11, 2019

Pre Season Baseball Preparation

As I write this on November 11, my youngest sons are finishing up fall baseball this week.  The first day of real winter weather hit today, plunging the temperatures in North Texas...

Continue Reading
  • November 2, 2019

Why Sports Matter

Why Sports Matter We hear a lot about the darker side of sports, the side where money confuses priorities.  Coaches that jump ship for other schools before their contracts are up.  Scandals...

Continue Reading
  • October 26, 2019

Train Strength Like a Skill

As coaches we are taught from school that there are several components of fitness.  These are muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardio-vascular endurance, flexibility, and body composition.  While this is great for an...

Continue Reading

Posts pagination

1 … 27 28 29 … 114

About

John looks at the athlete as a whole and works to determine his or her individual needs. He doesn’t subscribe to one particular approach to training or philosophy but views everything as a valid tool based upon an athlete’s sport, position, level of development, injury history, needs, experience, and preferences.

  • Instagram social account link
  • Linkedin social account link
  • Twitter social account link
  • Youtube social account link

Recent tweets

Tweets by @jcissik

Contact

John M. Cissik, MS, CSCS
jcissik@yahoo.com
McKinney, TX, USA

Connect

  • Instagram social account link
  • Linkedin social account link
  • Twitter social account link
  • Youtube social account link

Archives

Recent posts

  • Sporting Form and Weightlifting May 8, 2025
  • Look Ahead to Train Today May 1, 2025
  • Old Books Can Still Teach Us A Lot April 24, 2025

Categories

  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Chess
  • Down with Fitness
  • General News
  • Maximum Interval Training
  • Speed
  • Strength and Conditioning
    • Real World Strength and Conditioning
    • Research
Latest article for Inside Pitch Magazine. @inside Latest article for Inside Pitch Magazine.  @insidepitchmagazine @abca1945 #baseball #baseballcoach
Latest article for the Australian Track and Field Latest article for the Australian Track and Field Coaches Association’s journal. #strengthtraining #strengthtraining #athletics #trackandfield
Latest article for The Chess Correspondent #chess Latest article for The Chess Correspondent #chess #chessopenings
The Caro-Kann Defense, part four: https://www.ciss The Caro-Kann Defense, part four: https://www.cissik.com/blog/2024/09/the-caro-kann-defense-part-four/ #chess #chessopenings #chessdefense #carokann
The Caro-Kann Defense, part three: https://www.cis The Caro-Kann Defense, part three: https://www.cissik.com/blog/2024/09/the-caro-kann-defense-part-three/ #chess #chessopenings #carokanndefense
Humbled to have another article in @insidepitchmag Humbled to have another article in @insidepitchmagazine .  Great educational tool and @abca1945  is a great organization.  Excited to get back to hands on next week!
I like “old” chess books. They are inexpensiv I like “old” chess books.  They are inexpensive (this one was $8). The information holds up (the principles are the principles). Since I don’t play at the grandmaster level itynit going out if date!  #chess #chessstrategy #chessbooks
The Caro-Kann Defense, part two: https://www.cissi The Caro-Kann Defense, part two: https://www.cissik.com/blog/2024/09/the-caro-kann-defense-part-two/ #chess #chessopenings #carokanndefense
The Caro-Kann Defense, part one: https://www.cissi The Caro-Kann Defense, part one: https://www.cissik.com/blog/2024/08/the-caro-kann-part-one/ #chess #chessopening #carokanndefense
Load More... Follow on Instagram
Copyright © 2019 Improving Athletic Performance | An Exercise Blog for Coaches and Athletes | Website created by Ewa
  • Home
  • About
  • Publications
  • Contact