Competitiveness Has To Be Trained
A thing that coaches emphasize with athletes, write about it, recruit for it, and prize is having athletes who are competitive. This is also something that is difficult because it is an...
Real World Strength and Conditioning
How coaches use strength and conditioning to improve the performance of their athletes
What If Hypertrophy Has Nothing To Do With Strength
Traditionally we have taught that when an athlete begins strength training they will get stronger. This increase in strength comes before the athlete undergoes hypertrophy. The thinking is that these strength increases...
It’s Better To Be Strong
As strength and conditioning coaches, we spend a lot of time stressing the importance of strength for athletic performance. In some of my writing I have stressed the importance of strength for...
Getting In Shape For Sports
Strength and conditioning coaches have a number of areas they are concerned with when it comes to an athlete’s physical preparation for sports. Increasing strength, power, hypertrophy, speed, and agility are obvious...
Do Chains Improve Performance? It’s Complicated…
This blog is going to cover two concepts that came up in a recent study. The first is complex training, nowadays called postactivation potentiation. The second is the use of chains, nowadays...