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...
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Eccentric Training Has A Role
Eccentric training has been around for a long time. Bodybuilders call it “negatives.” Basically eccentric training involves an exaggerated descent or lower phase of the lift. The focus of eccentric training is...
Workout Components for Track and Field: Maximal Strength
Maximal strength is an important ability to just about every track and field athlete. Maximal strength is referring to the ability to exert force one time. It’s an all-out effort. It’s important...
Strength and Hypertrophy: Evidence Based Or Arbitrary?
Almost every strength and conditioning textbook includes guidelines for volume/intensity of exercises when we are training for different goals. For example, the table below has some generic guidelines depending upon one’s goal:...
Strength Matters: Postactivation Potentiation
The concept of post activation potentiation has been around for a long time. When I was starting out it was known as complex training. The idea being that if you perform a...