Conditioning Needs To Address The Athlete’s Needs
Metabolic conditioning can be a tricky quality to develop with athletes. Too often we look at this as either long, slow distance aerobic training or we look at it as thrashing the...
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It’s Challenging To Study Athletes
One of the challenges with strength and conditioning research is applying it to real athletes. Much of strength and conditioning research is done on college students and involves investigating an intervention in...
Kettlebells And Aerobic Fitness
Kettlebells broke onto the strength and conditioning scene a few years ago. They have been touted as developing everything from strength, power, mobility, hypertrophy, metabolic conditioning, and even cardiovascular endurance. Falatic...
Speed Training And Soccer
Background Soccer has always been a challenging sport for the strength and conditioning professional, especially when it comes to speed training. Over the years I’ve seen everything from having the athletes jog...
Agility Can Be Trained Generally And Specifically
Agility is often a difficult physical ability to train. I often view it as the summation of the athlete’s physical abilities (strength, speed, mobility, etc.) that is applied to the sport’s movement...