You Don’t Need To Do Everything At Once
As a coach, it’s difficult sometimes to understand that you cannot do everything that you want to with your athletes. There’s never enough time in the day. Good coaches eventually learn to...
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Power Training: Critical But Keep It In Perspective
For me, power is about the ability to express force quickly. I understand there are better definitions out there, but this is how I explain it to my athletes. Sometimes the purpose...
Time Only Goes One Way: Age and Performance
As we get older, a number of us use the rationalization of “I still work out, so that won’t happen to me!” You see this when it comes to age-related declines in...
Keeping Training Simple: A Rant
I want to thank Twitter for helping me come up with this post. Recently I tweeted something to the effect that squats, pulls, presses, rows, and the Olympic lifts are pretty much...
Sport Science and Elite Performance
I have been sitting on this article for a while. Greg Wilson, the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Australian Strength and Conditioning, wrote an editorial in the March 2013 journal...