Powerlifting: Adaptations are sport specific
Powerlifting is a sport characterized by lifting as much weight as one can, for a single repetition, in the squat, bench press, and deadlift. Because it is a maximal strength sport, training...
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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...
Lifting Weights Really is Good for Your Brain…
People have said for awhile that exercise is good for the brain. That’s a pretty broad statement and is usually associated with anecdotal evidence. In the Journal of Applied Physiology, Church et...
Is Exercise Velocity Specific?
For more than thirty years, the concept that training adaptations are specific to the velocities of the training has been popular in strength and conditioning circles. This provides the justification behind plyometrics,...
Knowledge Is Slippery: Hormones And Hypertrophy
The November issue of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise has an interesting point/counter-point article examining whether acute increases in anabolic hormones drive muscle hypertrophy. The theory is that a bout...