What’s Old is New Again: Complex Training
Complex training If you are in the strength and conditioning field long enough you will see old ideas come back under new names. One of those ideas is complex training, which is...
Real World Strength and Conditioning
How coaches use strength and conditioning to improve the performance of their athletes
Resisted sprints: partner sprinting
Resisted sprints: partner sprinting Resisted sprinting is a way to make sprinting more difficult. The idea is that athletes will learn to recruit more motor units during resisted sprinting and then this...
How to incorporate everything into a power program
How to incorporate everything into a power program There are a number of core tools used in strength and conditioning to improve athlete power. These include increasing strength, the Olympic lifts, plyometrics,...
Speed for sports: Resisted sprints
Speed for sports: Resisted sprints Resisted sprints are tools to make the sprinting motion more difficult. Think of these as sprint-specific strength training. The idea is that by using these the athlete...
Hamstring injury prevention: Bodyweight hamstring exercises
In a previous post we covered hip hinge exercises and why they are important to help prevent hamstring injuries in sprinting athletes. While this is an important tool, it should not make...