Basketball and Assessments
Basketball is an interesting sport to develop strength and conditioning programs for. I’ve coached it from both sides as a basketball coach and as a strength and conditioning coach. Morrison et al...
Strength, Things That Sound Good, and Points to Ponder
Spiering et al have a 2023 publication in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research that looked extremely interesting to me. The study was titled “Maximizing strength: The stimuli and mediators of...
Should Athletes Rest Between Repetitions?
One of the goals of a strength and conditioning program is to enhance an athlete’s power. Certain exercises, like the Olympic lifts, do a better job of this than others. Having said...
Resisted sprints: running uphill
Resisted sprints: running uphill We’ve had a few posts discussing different ways to do resisted sprinting. This approach to sprinting could be thought of as applying strength training to sprinting. The idea...
What’s Old is New Again: Complex Training
Complex training If you are in the strength and conditioning field long enough you will see old ideas come back under new names. One of those ideas is complex training, which is...