Training Must Adjust: Exercises
The exercises that are used in an athlete’s strength and conditioning program help to determine what kind of gains they will make from their training. When selecting exercises, it is easy to...
periodization
Training Must Adjust: Intensity
Training has to become more difficult over time. When working with athletes, however this takes on an added degree of complexity because an athlete may be training for years. In the previous...
Training Must Adjust: Loading
The tools that we use to train athletes have to adjust as the athlete moves through his or her career. This is due to a number of factors. First, as athletes progress...
Maintaining In-Season Strength
Strength is critical for athletic performance. It is a factor in power, it helps us sprint faster, change directions, throw, move an opponent, and even resist injury. It is also a skill...
Advanced Tools for Increasing Training Intensity
Over the past few weeks, I’ve done some tweets and Facebook posts about the overload principle and how the exercises that we use fit into it. To review, the overload principles states...