In a previous post ( http://www.cissik.com/blog/2016/05/athletes-need-to-squat/ ), I touched on the importance of the squat exercise for athletes. Continuing with this thought, Styles et al, in the Journal of Strength and...
A frequent topic of my social media posts deals with the squat exercise and its variations and how important it is for most sports. It’s important because it trains the bulk of...
Dr. Vladimir Issurin, who has a number of books out on periodization, has written an interesting article for the August issue of Sports Medicine on the transfer of training. Issurin makes the...
Manocchia et al, in another study examining kettlebell training, investigate how ten weeks of 2x/week training impacts strength, power, and endurance. The authors divided their training into five blocks of training, gradually...