Athletes Need To Squat
A frequent topic of my social media posts deals with the squat exercise and its variations and how important it is for most sports. It’s important because it trains the bulk of...
plyometrics
Children Are Not Small Adults
Strength and conditioning professionals have been point out for years that children aren’t just smaller adults when it comes to training programs. In the latest issue of the Journal of Strength and...
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...
Using Resisted Sprints
In a previous post (http://wp.me/p1XfMm-iq), I reviewed the current state of knowledge about resisted sprints. With this post, I’d like to talk a little about how they can be used in an...
Improving Postural Strength
What I think of as postural strength is critical to the performance of many sports. This may be a poor technical name, but to me it involves an ability to maintain...