Children And Eccentric Exercise
A lot of people make the case that when it comes to exercise programs for youth, that youth should not be treated as small adults. Recently another study has been published that...
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Rest And Recovery In The Training Of Athletes
Rest and recovery are important matters for an athlete. This is an area that it is easy to make mistakes on for a number of reasons. First, athletes are motivated to push...
Keeping Training Simple: A Rant
I want to thank Twitter for helping me come up with this post. Recently I tweeted something to the effect that squats, pulls, presses, rows, and the Olympic lifts are pretty much...
The Definitive 400 Meter Race Article
Legendary coach Peter Fortune wrote an excellent article on the 400m event in the April issue of Modern Athlete and Coach. To me this is an extremely important article for anyone that...
Program Design Thoughts: Intermediate Level Athletes
In a previous post ( http://wp.me/p1XfMm-c4), we discussed an athlete’s strength and conditioning career as something that moves through several phases. First the athlete builds their physical and motor skill foundation. Then,...