To optimize training for an individual, let’s consider psychology, personality, and the relationship between exercise and the brain.
Unfortunately, so many coaches only focus on performance because that’s how they were coached.
Get your ass out there and start dragging some sleds! It’s not as much of a drag as you think it is. With 22 variations to get you started, the possibilities are truly endless.
You can’t control what people say about you. Sometimes what they say will be good; sometimes what they say will be bad. What you can control is the way you respond to it. You can let the media get you on the highs and lows of the season, or you can simply choose to not respond to it. It’s your choice.
These 17 triggers may serve as a checklist to ensure optimal flow states and encourage proper performance — ultimately what’s standing between you and your next world record.
In only five years, Mark Rogers has taken his gym from one location and grown to three facilities covering the entire Austin, Texas area.
Do you really need your two scoops, three times a day of whey protein isolate? Or have you been brainwashed by the Whey/Casein Cartel?
That stack of bottomless pancakes you had for breakfast won't taste so good coming up after the medley.
What do you do when a win for yourself is a loss for your team?
Team elitefts Learn to Train 7 roundtable panelist Dr. Serrano describes seven male hormone therapies.
People tend to refer to others who workout and diet regularly as having discipline.
Your best performance has to be in a competition or a game.
Functional training, circuit-style workouts are the latest fashion at gyms today. But what do they really do for an athletes strength and power output?
There are many different schools of thought, each with their own ideas on how to train athletes in order to increase athletic performance. So how does one know which particular program will work for any given athlete?
The best advice I can give you is find the closest warehouse gym in your area and sign up!
There is so much debate in the fitness world right now about cardio.
Think about it – the only part of our anatomy to touch the ground when we run or jump – and most of us spend little to no time developing strength, mobility and proprioception in the feet.
Football players are completely clueless about nutrition.
Although they aren’t brand new, there’s a reason Blast Straps have continued to challenge athletes into 2010.
Performance training for improved looks is a concept that seems to get lost behind the dozens of magazines that promote your favorite bodybuilder and the supplements they’re trying to sell us.
In football, a defensive player’s success will depend on whether or not he can position his feet correctly to place himself in the best possible position to make plays. Foot speed is critical for improving athletic performance on the field. If a defensive lineman’s first step is exaggerated or slow, he will lose balance and be driven off the line of scrimmage.
The study of the science of strength and conditioning for sports is a huge endeavor. There are many differing opinions and many things that work. The key is to find out what works for your athlete based on his or her individual differences, strengths, weaknesses, and of course, sport.
What would be more effective is to change the dynamics of the lift slightly to stimulate new recruitment patterns and increase the use of often neglected muscles.