What’s Old is New Again: Complex Training
Complex training If you are in the strength and conditioning field long enough you will see old ideas come back under new names. One of those ideas is complex training, which is...
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How to incorporate everything into a power program
How to incorporate everything into a power program There are a number of core tools used in strength and conditioning to improve athlete power. These include increasing strength, the Olympic lifts, plyometrics,...
Strength is Important for Power
Athletes need to be able to be explosive for many sport skills and in many sport situations. This ability to apply force quickly is called power. There are a lot of exercises...
Horizontal Jumps are an Important Tool for Athletes
In a previous post ( https://www.cissik.com/blog/2022/08/athletes-apply-force-in-a-horizontal-direction/ ), we talked about the need to develop an athlete’s ability to apply force in a horizontal direction. While weight room strength is really important, you...
Programming the Olympic Lifts
The Olympic lifts and their variations have long been a staple of athletic strength and conditioning programs. They are performed standing up, involve most of the muscles of the body, involve a...