Your Focus May Effect Your Performance
In motor learning, focusing externally seems to result in an improvement in skill compared to an internal focus. When we focus internally we are focusing on what the body is doing, when...
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Are Kettlebells Best for Increasing Maximal Strength and Power?
Kettlebells, while a popular tool, suffer from a an interesting combination of a paucity of research on their effectiveness, techniques, safety, and programming along with an overwhelming amount of hype and marketing. ...
Program Design and Fun With Suspension Training
Today I put on a workshop at Texas Woman’s University on program design and suspension training exercises for the upper body. We began the workshop talking about program design for three different...
Analyzing the Snatch Lift: Implications for Conditioning?
Strength and conditioning coaches use the Olympic lifts and their variations to help increase the power production of their athletes. However, with a limited amount of time to train athletes it...
Training Beginning Olympic Lifters, Part 2
This post is meant to be a continuation of http://wp.me/p1XfMm-4A . The idea is to show how to systematically develop technique and a physical foundation for Olympic lifting using some of the...