Your Focus May Effect Your Performance
In motor learning, focusing externally seems to result in an improvement in skill compared to an internal focus. When we focus internally we are focusing on what the body is doing, when...
strength and conditioning
Body Mass, Training History, and Stress Fractures
Stress fractures are a problem with many types of athletes and with military trainees. These injuries occur to the lower extremity, typically the tibia , femur, or metatarsals and are the result...
Periodization Approaches and Body Composition
There’s been a debate for years about periodization approaches; is linear periodization better than undulating? The idea is that linear periodization gradually increases intensity while decreasing volume. Undulating mixes it up so...
Body Type Impacts Bench Press Performance
It should make sense that the way you are built in terms of the length of your limbs has an impact on how successful you are at certain exercises. When it comes...
Stretching, Training Volume, and Long-Term Gains
There’s been a lot of research and coaching practice over the years changing how we go about warming up for explosive events. Twenty years ago we’d do some light cardio and then...