Strength Training for the Sprints: Practice vs. Theory
Leo Settle has written an old school article on strength training and sprinters. I call this old school because he is drawing heavily from some of the older material from Dintman, Ward,...
Leo Settle has written an old school article on strength training and sprinters. I call this old school because he is drawing heavily from some of the older material from Dintman, Ward,...
Anthony Blazevich is one of my favorite authors. He publishes studies looking into things that we think we know and challenges our beliefs. I don’t always agree with his findings, but I...
Adding resistance to sprinting is a popular training tool for strength and conditioning coaches. The idea is that by adding resistance, the sprinting motion becomes more difficult. This requires the athlete’s nervous...
Research into the demands of sports is becoming more sophisticated, which allows a strength and conditioning coach to design much more effective conditioning programs for his or her athletes. In two previous...
In a previous post we covered the falling start as the first in a series of progressive drills to teach athletes how to take the first step explosively (http://wp.me/p1XfMm-H). This post is...