An introduction to the objectives of Coach X’s original GPP training program.
As a society, we want to witness larger than life events, and this could shape the future of PED use in sports.
Whether it be for moral reasons or their dangerous side effects, the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in sports is considered by many to be a problem.
The Thinker has answers to your training questions…fellow brainiacs to the front of the room.
Their running technique wasn’t based on maximum oxygen uptake, the African pygmies focused solely on efficiency.
This program mash-up got Ryan Williams out of his training rut. What can it do for you?
It’s an area that is in dire need of attention; however, basic programming knowledge will not suffice. If you want to help children with disabilities, specialized knowledge and insight must first be gained.
You want your athletes to grow and advance their skills… why shouldn’t you as well?
With this method, speed won’t only be admired and pursued…it will be attained.
Personal training and strength and conditioning coaching… the two require a very different mindset and approach to programming.
After my last two discussions on women’s roles and expectations in strength, it’s time to truly identify some strong women in action.
Oftentimes, gender differences and our approach to them is based on socialization rather than innate brain, neurological, and hormonal composure.
If you are a strength coach in an educational setting, your title goes beyond strength coach. You are an educator.
How do we get an athlete who achieved a certain level of strength to change what he is doing in order to achieve even greater results?
The abuse didn’t end when the perpetrators were caught and arrested. For most, the abuse will never end.
It seems to be a generally accepted fact that exercise has a positive impact on depression and anxiety.
If you clicked on this article because you think you can relate, because you think I’m going to be talking about being ‘addicted to iron,’ addicted to the feel of a heavy barbell on my back, addicted to the way your throat tightens up from breathing in chalk dust or addicted to the whiff of a snapped ammonia cap, just pass on through.
I don’t have to squat 1000 lbs—or even 500 lbs—to tell you what I learned about life, death, and strength in just a few email messages from Bob Youngs.
Is there a legitimate link between the heavy training involved in strength sports and depression?
In a short time I have realized that maybe it is us who should be mocked.
Safety is much more than just spotting and cleaning up. It is what can define your entire program.
Help these children follow their passion for a day and know that you have contributed to something they truly will remember.
Dana Shedd is a 13 year-old athlete. She’s just like any other athlete a strength coach may train, except she has cancer.
If you’re in the military, or you’re a police officer or fireman, or you work some other job where you’re under considerable amounts of stress on a regular basis, you’re going to want to read this article.
Having used the conjugate system in my own training and with professional male basketball athletes, I’ve found it quite easy to “sell” the idea of max effort, dynamic, and repeated effort methods to experienced athletes and lifters.
Let me cut right to the chase here—I’m asking for your help. And it has to do with cancer.
Unfortunately the unmaking of an athlete begins long before college.
As the sport of MMA progresses so must the specific means and methods of fighter training.
Most periodized training programs for athletes follow a Western or linear model.
I sometimes wonder if there are any prerequisites at all to getting a job as college strength and conditioning coach.
Jim Wendler has written a great series on tips for beginners. I was talking to Dave Tate about it and he gave me the idea for this article. I want to share what my workouts looked like when I first got to Westside Barbell.
My intent with this article is to give you a sort of inside look at what I was thinking going into and during the meet.
One of the first pressing, inquisitive minds who stepped on the face of this earth was Socrates.
The individual control and systematic manipulation of volumetric management is largely dependant upon the proper integration of critical training variables.
The reason to couple super compensation work with training work is simple, gain a reciprocative function of the fatigue-frequency relationship more often in a training stage.
When planning a training protocol, one must take into account the value of work administered in terms of function and time.
Maybe it’s because I found out the hard way that you must vent information through a screen door in order to attain measurable improvements every training session in the real world. Maybe it’s because I have been doing research lately on American training strategies and I got a swift kick of deja vu.
The training process must include a critical and determined degree of fatigue, followed by an appropriate duration to which Reserve Strength may be elicited.
The individual control and systematic manipulation of volumetric management is largely dependant upon the proper integration of critical training variables. Specifically, these elements that must be monitored in training for sport can be generally classified into the broad category of measurement.
One of the most asked questions throughout the day was “What would you have done differently, if you knew what you know now?” And though I answered the question as best I could, I couldn’t help but rethink the question over and over.
When discussing training, there are many things to consider, such as speed work, building absolute strength, improving form, raising work capacity, recuperation, and selecting exercises and rotating them them in proper sequence to avoid adaptation.
This article is all about you, as a unique individual, training for your goals and based on your needs.
What do you call it when someone makes a bonehead mistake in training? I am going to muster up all of my will power and be nice this time as I liken it to the baseball player that has fallen prone to poor pitch selection- swinging at bad pitches
The other day I got off the phone with a friend of mine who coaches college football. I told him that I had recently consulted with Dave Tate about applying the Westside principles for a college football player