Keep Testing Simple
With sports, testing has two primary purposes. The first is to assess the effectiveness of the strength and conditioning program. The second is to help select who is going to play at...
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Speed Training For The Non-Elite Athlete: A Rant
There’s been a lot over the years about speed and agility tools. Along with the internet has been a proliferation of specialized sports training facilities, experts, translated Soviet-era material, and equipment companies....
One Legged Training: No Smoking Gun
For years, unilateral (i.e. focused primarily on one leg at a time) training has become pretty popular. In fact, claims like: “an athlete should not attempt bilateral exercises until they have mastered...
It’s Challenging To Study Athletes
One of the challenges with strength and conditioning research is applying it to real athletes. Much of strength and conditioning research is done on college students and involves investigating an intervention in...
The Challenge With Periodization
When I entered the coaching field, strength and conditioning was very different than it is today. The focus of the strength and conditioning coach was on the Olympic lifts, the three...