Keeping Training Simple: A Rant
I want to thank Twitter for helping me come up with this post. Recently I tweeted something to the effect that squats, pulls, presses, rows, and the Olympic lifts are pretty much...
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Sport Science and Elite Performance
I have been sitting on this article for a while. Greg Wilson, the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Australian Strength and Conditioning, wrote an editorial in the March 2013 journal...
All Training Tools Have Limitations
Strength training is a wonderful tool to help increase sports performance and to prevent injuries. There are some things that it does extremely well, but it has limitations when it comes to...
Classic Article: Efficiency is Important in Weightlifting
Wolfgang Baumann et al analyzed the snatch lifts in the 1985 world weightlifting championships. From this, they published an article that is essentially two studies in one article: Examine the kinematics (time...
For Beginners Variety is Important
The power clean and its variations is a fundamental exercise in the strength and conditioning of athletes. The exercise develops most of the muscles of the body, is easy to learn, is...