Use High Intensity Interval Training For Basketball Success
Basketball has seen an explosion of the use of sport science over the last ten years. It’s not unusual for athletes to be using heart rate monitors and GPS trackers to get...
Real World Strength and Conditioning
How coaches use strength and conditioning to improve the performance of their athletes
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...
The Olympic Lifts: Squat, Power, or Split?
The Olympic lifts and their variations have been a mainstay in athletic strength and conditioning since well before I entered the field in the 1990's. These are variations of the snatch, clean,...
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....