Use Heavy Ropes For Your Warm Up
Heavy ropes (also known as battle ropes or training ropes) are essentially 60-200 foot long extra thick ropes. This training tool involves the lower body, core, and upper body. Typically these exercises...
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Coach, I Don’t Want To Be Too Strong
Last week I had a tweet about diminishing returns and an athlete’s strength. The question comes up, can athletes be too strong? This is a difficult one to answer. It’s difficult to...
The Overhead Squat And Athletes
The back squat is a fundamental exercise for an athletic strength and conditioning program. It develops lower body strength, does so in a manner that involves exerting force against the ground, and...
What Do We Know About Resisted Sprinting?
The October 2014 issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research has articles by Kawamori et al and Bachero-Mena and Gonzalez-Badillo on resisted sprinting. This presents a great opportunity to take...
Elite Sprinters May Run Differently Than Everyone Else
Kenneth Clark and Peter Weyand have an interesting article in the latest issue of the Journal of Applied Physiology that looks at sprinting. They begin by reviewing the fact that what differentiates...