This blog is going to cover two concepts that came up in a recent study. The first is complex training, nowadays called postactivation potentiation. The second is the use of chains, nowadays...
The deadlift is a popular exercise in strength and conditioning. It is a total body exercise that involves exerting force against the ground while the athlete stands up with heavy weights in...
There has been a discussion for a few years about unilateral vs. bilateral training in the strength and conditioning of athletes. Many of us have used squats, deadlifts, Romanian deadlifts, and the...
Eccentric training has been around for a long time. Bodybuilders call it “negatives.” Basically eccentric training involves an exaggerated descent or lower phase of the lift. The focus of eccentric training is...
In another lifetime, I taught strength and conditioning classes at Texas A&M and at Texas Woman’s Universities. A number of my books were geared to be textbooks for those classes as I...