Hard Work Is Not Going To Break You: A Rant
Hard work helps us to learn skills, to function in challenging circumstances, learn to resist fatigue, and teaches us how to play a sport with passion and intensity. Now, when I bring...
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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 Training: Do Repetitions and Intensity Determine Gains?
For as long as I’ve been in this field, I’ve been taught that there are ideal ranges of volume and training intensity to accomplish different goals from strength training. For example, if...
Training Must Adjust: Intensity
Training has to become more difficult over time. When working with athletes, however this takes on an added degree of complexity because an athlete may be training for years. In the previous...
Training Must Adjust: Loading
The tools that we use to train athletes have to adjust as the athlete moves through his or her career. This is due to a number of factors. First, as athletes progress...