Basketball and Assessments
Basketball is an interesting sport to develop strength and conditioning programs for. I’ve coached it from both sides as a basketball coach and as a strength and conditioning coach. Morrison et al...
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Strength, Things That Sound Good, and Points to Ponder
Spiering et al have a 2023 publication in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research that looked extremely interesting to me. The study was titled “Maximizing strength: The stimuli and mediators of...
What’s Old is New Again: Complex Training
Complex training If you are in the strength and conditioning field long enough you will see old ideas come back under new names. One of those ideas is complex training, which is...
How to incorporate everything into a power program
How to incorporate everything into a power program There are a number of core tools used in strength and conditioning to improve athlete power. These include increasing strength, the Olympic lifts, plyometrics,...
Strength is Important for Power
Athletes need to be able to be explosive for many sport skills and in many sport situations. This ability to apply force quickly is called power. There are a lot of exercises...