The Olympic lifts are extensively used in the conditioning of athletes. They help to teach athletes how to apply force quickly. For these lifts, this is done while standing up and involves...
In 1978 Pekka Luhtanen and Paavo Komi had an article published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology looking at how different body segments contribute to performance of the vertical jump. At...
Training to increase maximal strength as well as training to increase power have both been found to be effective at improving vertical jump. In general, when one trains to increase maximal strength...
Kettlebells, while a popular tool, suffer from a an interesting combination of a paucity of research on their effectiveness, techniques, safety, and programming along with an overwhelming amount of hype and marketing. ...
In what is probably the opening salvo of this, Otto et al published an article in the May issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research looking at the effectiveness of...