Old Books Can Still Teach Us A Lot
I’m a terrible chess player, I admit that. I really got into it when I went through chemotherapy to try to keep my brain in shape. To help with that, I began...
Research
Summaries of the latest strength and conditioning research
Hamstring Hypertrophy
Hamstring muscle group training is important for athletes. The hamstrings are important for running, jumping, most sport skills, ACL injury prevention, sprint injury prevention, and the rehabilitation of both ACL and sprinting...
Research on Strength: Volume and Intensity
Most strength and conditioning textbooks have tables that show that for training at a given percentage of one-repetition maximum an athlete should be able to do x number of repetitions. For example,...
Battle/heavy ropes: Practice and research
The use of heavy ropes in the conditioning of athletes has become very popular over the last two decades. These are long, extra-thick, heavy ropes that are attached to a fixed point....
Sprinting and Hamstring Injuries: Do We “Know” Anything?
We've known that hamstring injuries happen when athletes sprint for a long time now. There have been a lot of hypothesis about why this is. The strength and conditioning field has looked...