Training for Strength, Part 2
In a previous post we talked about how not to do strength and conditioning in a team setting. In this post I’m going to present some thoughts about strength and conditioning in...
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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...
What Happens After…
With the coronavirus, a lot of things are different with our athletes this spring. Put simply, many athletes are not training like we’d normally expect them to. This is due to their...
Train Strength Like a Skill
As coaches we are taught from school that there are several components of fitness. These are muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardio-vascular endurance, flexibility, and body composition. While this is great for an...
It’s Better To Be Strong
As strength and conditioning coaches, we spend a lot of time stressing the importance of strength for athletic performance. In some of my writing I have stressed the importance of strength for...