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...
A frequent topic of my social media posts deals with the squat exercise and its variations and how important it is for most sports. It’s important because it trains the bulk of...
Periodically I post on social media about the value of the big five movements in a strength and conditioning program. These five movements are the press, pull, row, squat, and Olympic lift....
Bands and chains, what the research calls variable resistance training, have been around as a training tool for a while now. Powerlifters introduced these as a way to help strengthen lifts during...
For years, unilateral (i.e. focused primarily on one leg at a time) training has become pretty popular. In fact, claims like: “an athlete should not attempt bilateral exercises until they have mastered...