The General Warm Up is Essential for Success
Traditionally strength and conditioning sessions are divided into three main parts; the warm up, the workout, and the cool down. A lot of athletes and coaches skip the warm up due to...
Real World Strength and Conditioning
How coaches use strength and conditioning to improve the performance of their athletes
Horizontal Application of Force and Sports
In recent years the concept of the horizontal application of force has become important in the strength and conditioning world. I actually devoted a significant part of my last book to it. ...
Warm Ups are Important for Athletes
Most athletic strength and conditioning sessions are going to center around variations of the Olympic lifts, variations of squats, hip hinges, presses, and rows. Clearly there is more than just strength/power to...
Power Training: Clean Pulls
In previous posts we have covered the hang power clean, push jerk, and hang power snatch as power training exercises that can be used in a team strength and conditioning setting. One...
Heavy Rope Waves
To this point, heavy rope exercises that we’ve described have been largely total body exercises, being meant to integrate lower body, core, and upper body movements. Today’s post is going to describe...