Conditioning For Sports
Metabolic conditioning is a major focus of strength and conditioning programs today. This is a lot different than when I started in this field, when the focus was primarily on basic strength...
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Is The FMS Related To Peformance?
The functional movement screen (FMS) has been a hotly debated topic recently for athletic performance. Does it predict injuries? Does performance on the FMS have any predictive values for athletic performance? In...
Predicting Injuries in Elite Female Soccer Players
Nilstad et al in the latest issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine have an article that examines 1731 elite Norwegian female soccer players and follows them for the 2009 season....
Sport Science and Elite Performance
I have been sitting on this article for a while. Greg Wilson, the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Australian Strength and Conditioning, wrote an editorial in the March 2013 journal...
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,...