For me the Olympic lifts have been the foundation of the strength and conditioning profession. Way back when I started Olympic lifting (early 1990’s, way before Cross Fit), there were more people...
Basketball is an interesting sport to develop strength and conditioning programs for. I’ve coached it from both sides as a basketball coach and as a strength and conditioning coach. Morrison et al...
Spiering et al have a 2023 publication in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research that looked extremely interesting to me. The study was titled “Maximizing strength: The stimuli and mediators of...
Complex training If you are in the strength and conditioning field long enough you will see old ideas come back under new names. One of those ideas is complex training, which is...
How to incorporate everything into a power program There are a number of core tools used in strength and conditioning to improve athlete power. These include increasing strength, the Olympic lifts, plyometrics,...