Controversial Thoughts on Baseball and Speed Training
I’m not going to lie, I’m going to annoy some people with this post. This is a “food for thought” post. That means that I’m going to point some things out, but...
Real World Strength and Conditioning
How coaches use strength and conditioning to improve the performance of their athletes
Real World Agility and Basketball
Real-world agility for basketball As I’ve said in other posts, to me agility is about applying strength and conditioning to the sport. So this is a lot bigger than a handful...
The Windmill Is A Valuable Addition to Your Kettlebell Exercises
Kettlebells provide an enormous amount of flexibility in terms of the exercises that you can do with them. Some of these exercises train balance, proprioception, mobility, strength, and endurance in really creative...
Basketball Speed Training Thoughts
We’ve made a perfectly understandable mistake with speed training. That mistake is to attempt to train everyone like track and field athletes. We use the same terms, try the same running mechanics,...
Upper Body Strength Matters
We spend a lot of time focusing on pressing with the strength training for athletes. The bench press is the king of pressing exercises, closely followed by the military press. Now,...