Jumping Rope: Make it Fun
A simple jump rope is a versatile and effective strength and conditioning tool. It's also a lost art. As I've covered elsewhere it is inexpensive, it's useful for warming up, metabolic conditioning,...
metabolic conditioning
Use High Intensity Interval Training For Basketball Success
Basketball has seen an explosion of the use of sport science over the last ten years. It’s not unusual for athletes to be using heart rate monitors and GPS trackers to get...
Battle/heavy ropes: Practice and research
The use of heavy ropes in the conditioning of athletes has become very popular over the last two decades. These are long, extra-thick, heavy ropes that are attached to a fixed point....
Heavy Rope Slams for Conditioning
Metabolic conditioning has been a popular phrase in the strength and conditioning field for the last twenty years. Basically it refers to getting athletes in shape to play their sport. There are...
Jumping Rope
I put out a post a few weeks ago about jumping rope. I figured it is worth a post to dive more deeply into this and discuss the value of jumping rope,...