Summaries of the latest strength and conditioning research
Strength and conditioning professionals have been saying for a long time that aerobic exercise interferes with the gains made from strength training. This may be due to overdevelopment of slow twitch muscle...
Yesterday I put on a workshop at Texas Woman’s University that provided CEU’s from NSCA, ACE, AFAA, and NASM. Our topics were endocrine physiology and weight control. These are both important and...
The power clean and its variations is a fundamental exercise in the strength and conditioning of athletes. The exercise develops most of the muscles of the body, is easy to learn, is...
Mangine et al published a great study looking at professional baseball players over time. This study was designed to look at how age impacts professional baseball players. The study provides data from...
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...