Use Heavy Ropes For Your Warm Up
Heavy ropes (also known as battle ropes or training ropes) are essentially 60-200 foot long extra thick ropes. This training tool involves the lower body, core, and upper body. Typically these exercises...
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Flexibility Training: It’s Not What You Think
Blazevich et al in the most recent issue of the Journal of Applied Physiology have an article that examines what happens on several levels as a result of three weeks of flexibility...
Strength May be Key to Determining PAP Effectiveness
Post-activation potentiation (PAP) is a topic that has been widely studied over the last five years. The idea is that some type of heavy training can help to increase power production/speed. Bellar...
Postactivation Poteniation and Shot Put Performance
Larry Judge et al had a study in the March issue of Track and Cross Country Journal looking at post-activation potentiation (PAP) and shot put performance. The authors studied high school-aged female...
Shake Up Your Warm-Up, Part 5: Putting Everything Together
In the first four parts of this series we covered dynamic flexibility exercises, core training, prehab training, and jumps and throws as warm-up (see http://wp.me/p1XfMm-2O , http://wp.me/p1XfMm-2S , http://wp.me/p1XfMm-2V and http://wp.me/p1XfMm-2Z )....