Strategies To Increase Strength
Strength is an important ability for athletes. Strength is necessary for sprinting, agility, throwing, hitting, kicking, and jumping. It’s a frequent topic of mine with social media because a lot of people...
program design
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...
The Big Five Is All You Need
Periodically I post on social media about the value of the big five movements in a strength and conditioning program. These five movements are the press, pull, row, squat, and Olympic lift....
How Important Is Between-Set Rest?
We frequently prescribe workout programs that read something like this: 3 sets of 8 reps at 80%. This kind of workout program carries the assumption that we’re capable of maintaining that...
Conditioning Needs To Address The Athlete’s Needs
Metabolic conditioning can be a tricky quality to develop with athletes. Too often we look at this as either long, slow distance aerobic training or we look at it as thrashing the...