Bryan Mann

There is a well-known saying in our industry: information in strength and conditioning doubles every eighteen months. How will you keep up?

The training will make you Strong(er) of body. The goal setting will help you become Strong(er) of mind.

Sprinting has both horizontal and vertical components. If your athletes aren’t training both, they’re not going to be as fast as they could be.

The clothing we wear makes a statement of our fashion, but what does it say about our character?

The speed you build in training will determine the split-second difference between winning a game and going home defeated.

Quit pretending you are a Ferrari when you are (in fact) a second-hand high-mileage Ford Focus.

Why the rule of 25% is necessary for 100% progress.

Little known fact: despite those whole "atomic bomb incidents," Truman deadlifted sumo.

Appease your moral conscious by taking the prophalctic approach to birth control. Oh sorry…you said breath control.

Have you ever tried actually PROGRAMMING your GPP?

Yeah. We used “bulletproof” again!

There may be better methods to measure explosive strength.

Realize that basketball isn't just basketball, soccer isn't just soccer, and football isn't just football.

You think you know. You have no idea.

Have you ever wondered how to predict the success of an athlete?

Has this trend in coaching taken things in the wrong direction?

Ed Coan and Kirk Karwoski mastered it. Will you?

Anyone can make that good, right choice once in a while…but it takes so much more than that.

It is the quantity of the quality of work that matters…

I want to tell a story. It is about a man named Joshua Chamberlain.

There is a time and a place for everything.

I could mourn all that I have lost and will never have again.

This is my story of Passing It On.

To achieve greatness you must first believe it, see it, and feel it.

Don’t live in the world of haves and hads.

The difference between good lifters and great ones does not lie in sets and reps and exercises.

Life isn’t all about what happened…it is about how you view it.

To be a more productive athlete and leader, one needs to focus on his circle of influence.

Your thoughts may be the only thing holding you back—nothing and no one else.

The greatest accomplishments come from a singularly focused mind and extreme determination.

Here’s the deal. All sound programs work and they work well. The best one is your preference. However, there’s a catch to everything and this has more than one.

Monitoring training status is something very vital when training athletes.

The Fitrodyne Powerlyzer by Tendo, or Tendo unit as it’s more commonly known, is a piece of equipment used to measure the speed of the bar. This allows the coach to know several things such as whether the athlete is training what he or she is supposed to be training and whether the bar speed has started to drop. Here, I’ll discuss how to use the Tendo unit as a means of autoregulation.