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,...
program design
Kettlebell Lunges and Split Squats
Besides being a great tool for metabolic conditioning, kettlebells can be used for strength and hypertrophy training. Like barbells and dumbbells, heavier kettlebells can be used allowing for overload to be applied...
Hamstring Hypertrophy
Hamstring muscle group training is important for athletes. The hamstrings are important for running, jumping, most sport skills, ACL injury prevention, sprint injury prevention, and the rehabilitation of both ACL and sprinting...
The Olympic Lifts: Squat, Power, or Split?
The Olympic lifts and their variations have been a mainstay in athletic strength and conditioning since well before I entered the field in the 1990's. These are variations of the snatch, clean,...
Research on Strength: Volume and Intensity
Most strength and conditioning textbooks have tables that show that for training at a given percentage of one-repetition maximum an athlete should be able to do x number of repetitions. For example,...