Do We Even Need To Train Agility?
Are speed, power, and agility different physical abilities? If they are, do they need to be tested and trained with different exercises? Does this change with different levels of athletes? In other...
Research
Summaries of the latest strength and conditioning research
Foam Rolling: Still No Smoking Gun
Foam rolling has been around for a number of years now. It’s credited with getting rid of training-related adhesions in the muscles, increasing blood flow, and improving both recovery and performance. It’s...
Thinking Outside The Box For The Throwing Shoulder
Throwing athletes spend a lot of time on shoulder training. Usually this is done with something like resistance bands. The idea being that the loer stress work of the bands allows for...
Strength and Hypertrophy: Evidence Based Or Arbitrary?
Almost every strength and conditioning textbook includes guidelines for volume/intensity of exercises when we are training for different goals. For example, the table below has some generic guidelines depending upon one’s goal:...
Strength Matters: Postactivation Potentiation
The concept of post activation potentiation has been around for a long time. When I was starting out it was known as complex training. The idea being that if you perform a...