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Training Lessons From Video Games
Growing up in the 80s and 90s I was introduced to video games. For today’s youth gaming has become a cultural phenomenon with people even making their careers out of playing them, turning their...
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Flexibility and Mobility the Same Right? WRONG!
There is a lot more involved with personal fitness than just being strong or being able to run for long distances. Your flexibility and mobility are important characteristics to work on in order for...
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Shut off Your Screens to Lose Your Belly Fat
It is no secret that lack of sleep is strongly associated with the amount of body fat that you carry. This is especially true with your Belly fat. Poor sleeping patterns can affect your circadian...
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Create a Successful Training Stew
One of my mentors once told me designing a successful training plan is sort of like making a stew, in that as long as all of the ingredients get into the pot the result will be pretty delicious....
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Your Situation is not My Situation
Strength and conditioning is a rapidly growing industry. Much the same as many industries in the modern world with the invention of rapid data transmitting technologies such as the internet, smart...
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Essential Components of a Youth Strength and Conditioning Program
The youth strength and conditioning program has become a major selling point for many training facilities lately. I have even seen under armor adds promoting youth conditioning in their advertisements...
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Simple Supersets for Accelerated Arm Growth
As strength and conditioning coaches it is easy to neglect arm training. After all there are so many other important things that athletes need to work on in order to be successful. Just to name a few...
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3 Tips to Achieve Correct Squat Form
We’ve all heard it before: The Squat is the king of all exercises. This often puts the Squat at the top of the programming food chain when athletes plan training goals for the new year. And for good...
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Progressing Core Training For Baseball Performance
Baseball / Softball are unique in their physical demands. These sports require high levels of power in a variety of planes. Most notably is the ability to generate rotational power during the act of...
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How Long Should I Rest to Get Bigger and Stronger?
Rest times are often one of those programming variables that are easy to overlook. If you are anything like me you have fallen into a routine at the gym, and just train with little thought about the...
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3 Effective Alternatives to Olympic Weightlifting Lifts
Traditional Olympic lifts can be adapted and used in strength and conditioning programs to develop speed, power and strength. These lifts offer unique opportunities to blend load and speed in...
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Strength Coach Concussion Primer: Part II
In my last post on concussions I outlined the signs and symptoms that the strength and conditioning coach should be looking for in athletes who may have suffered head trauma. I also expanded on the...
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Build Strength and Size with Rest Pause Training
In a strength and conditioning program, coaches manipulate sets, reps and weight to achieve certain results. But other variables also come into play, including tempo, rest time, range of motion and...
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Olympic Lifting or Jump Training, Which Makes you Faster?
There is no shortage of opinions on both Olympic weightlifting when it comes to the development of athletes. Typically coaches fall into camps where they will either be for or against the use of...
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Build Explosive Power With Cluster Sets
When designing a strength and conditioning program to improve performance, the most important aspect is to introduce appropriate training variables in a systematic and logical order. This ensures that...
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Should You Take Time off Before Your Season?
The best way for a team to win games is to have their best players playing. There is just no way around it if the best players cannot play because of injury then the result is the team’s chances of...
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Exercises for Offensive Line Play
In football, the big guys up front rarely get any attention unless they do something wrong. Sure you might hear about a QB or running back treating the offensive line to a steak dinner for their hard...
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Plyometrics During Warm-Ups For Performance Benefit
One of my favourite coaches Buddy Morris often says that his athletes warm-up to train, they do not train to warm-up. The first time that I heard this statement it made a lot of sense to me. I have...
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5 Ways Alcohol Undermines Your Workout
Editor’s note: This article discusses the negative effects of alcohol consumption on athletes. If you are under the legal drinking age, you shouldn’t drink alcohol under any circumstances. Alcohol...
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3 Essential Training Tactics for Offensive Linemen
The offensive line is the lifeblood of every football team, but let’s face it, the big guys up front rarely get any glory. For the most part, playing on the offensive line is a thankless and gritty...
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