Training Must Adjust: Loading
The tools that we use to train athletes have to adjust as the athlete moves through his or her career. This is due to a number of factors. First, as athletes progress...
program design
Focus on the Fundamentals
There are three fundamental types of exercise that are important for any successful strength and conditioning program. These are the squat, the press, and the pull. The squat develops the ability to...
Advanced Tools for Increasing Training Intensity
Over the past few weeks, I’ve done some tweets and Facebook posts about the overload principle and how the exercises that we use fit into it. To review, the overload principles states...
Program Design and Fun With Suspension Training
Today I put on a workshop at Texas Woman’s University on program design and suspension training exercises for the upper body. We began the workshop talking about program design for three different...
Classic Article: Western Foundations of Periodization?
This is an extremely important paper for the strength and conditioning professional. It provides the periodization model that is widely used in strength and conditioning and also provides many of the set/repetition...