Train For What You Want
"Train for what you want" This is one of the most fundamental principles in strength and conditioning and it’s the one that everyone overthinks and makes too complicated. For most of...
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Agility is Important for Sports Performance
I spend a lot of time writing about the fact that agility has to be sport specific. It has to train the athlete to be able to perform movements of the sport,...
What if things don’t work like we think?
Ask anyone in the strength and conditioning field for more than a few minutes about how to develop hypertrophy and they will tell you that athletes need to do sets of 8-12...
Use Kettlebell Complexes For Warming Up And Station Work
A strength and conditioning coach, especially one in a team setting where time is very limited, has to be very careful about where to spend his or her athlete’s time. There are...
Are Hex Bar Deadlifts Better?
In recent years, the hexagonal deadlift (i.e. the trap bar) has gained in popularity with athletic strength and conditioning circles. The argument is that it puts the body in a safer position...