Getting In Shape For Sports
Metabolic conditioning has been a big buzz word the last few years in the strength and conditioning field. In general, there are three purposes for metabolic conditioning: Getting in shape for the...
program design
You Don’t Need To Do Everything At Once
As a coach, it’s difficult sometimes to understand that you cannot do everything that you want to with your athletes. There’s never enough time in the day. Good coaches eventually learn to...
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...
Overreaching and Olympic Lifting
It’s very difficult for high-level Olympic lifters to continue to make gains as a result of training. In a classic study, Hakkinen et al had determined that an elite strength and power...
The Squat And Sprinting
In a previous post ( http://www.cissik.com/blog/2016/05/athletes-need-to-squat/ ), I touched on the importance of the squat exercise for athletes. Continuing with this thought, Styles et al, in the Journal of Strength and...