Conditioning Needs To Address The Athlete’s Needs
Metabolic conditioning can be a tricky quality to develop with athletes. Too often we look at this as either long, slow distance aerobic training or we look at it as thrashing the...
Research
Summaries of the latest strength and conditioning research
One Legged Training: No Smoking Gun
For years, unilateral (i.e. focused primarily on one leg at a time) training has become pretty popular. In fact, claims like: “an athlete should not attempt bilateral exercises until they have mastered...
It’s Challenging To Study Athletes
One of the challenges with strength and conditioning research is applying it to real athletes. Much of strength and conditioning research is done on college students and involves investigating an intervention in...
Do Bands Increase Power?
Lifters have been using bands and chains to help improve their bench press and squat for a long time now. These are used to help train the lifter to overcome sticking points...
Using Bands and Squats To Improve Sprinting Speed
The concept of post-activation potentiation (PAP) has been around for a long time under several names. The first few generations of Soviet coaches/sport scientists that came to the west called it complex...