Here are the accessory, unilateral, and mobility exercises your lacrosse players SHOULD be doing to stay healthy, especially as their playing season continues to extend.
When done correctly, these lifts can improve an athlete’s peak force, rate of force production, and explosiveness.
As a woman reading this, you too have had a fair share of doubters. So I want to share some tangible ways to break through the glass ceiling in your life—the barrier to professional advancemen. It can be done.
Let’s make the warm-up more than just breaking a sweat. If done properly (and in little time) it’ll prepare you for the work to come.
The man, the myth, the legend JM Blakley, joins Dave and Sam to discuss getting a little better every day, the nuances of coaching, the limits we place on ourselves, and much more!
To expand upon the exercise selection chart discussion from last month, these training options form the basis of my decision-making and conversations with players as to what they need to focus on over the next four to six weeks in their gym sessions.
Your time on this planet is limited. To make your mark, I challenge you to do the work and get ahold of your emotions.
Do you want a bigger squat? This Russian secret will help.
You are only a new lifter once, and that is a gift to take seriously. Don’t squander it by dabbling in the post-elite aspects and methods of training.
Don’t skimp out on a warm-up to only tweak your back squatting 135. I know from experience.
Let’s look at some of the jobs a strength coach can and should be responsible for.
Because it can be a wonderful tool to increase power, muscle mass, and performance in a given sport. That’s why.
Here are the basics everyone, especially lifters, should know before going under the knife—choosing a surgeon and what to expect before and after surgery.
Athletes spend most of their time with strength coaches. Learn how Phil Matusz finesses his role as the head football strength coach for Boston College.
As the tactical sector of strength and conditioning grows, so does the awareness, curiosity, and interest from coaches currently in athletics. Here’s a quick breakdown if you’re considering making the leap from collegiate to tactical strength and conditioning.
Here’s what my crew abides by in setting up our team training. The process starts with tryouts.
Some of the brightest minds in strength and conditioning present both sides of the argument. Join the conversation.
Is your period haywire? Is your hair brittle and shedding? Do you feel constantly lethargic? Are you estrogen dominant?
On this episode of Dave Tate’s Table Talk, the boys are back in town! Dave is joined by Jim Wendler, Matt Rhodes, & Vincent Dizenzo!
The best way I can explain this concept is to tell you a story about a pilot and his air traffic controller.
The name of the game is to be the best you can be. These tips will get you there.
Get the inside scoop on the legendary Jujimufu that you won’t see anywhere else!
Get the inside scoop of how Ms. Olympia Missy Truscott preps, trains, eats, lives, and thinks her way to a high-level athletic hybrid.
We will beat puniness and weakness once and for all as we combine bodybuilding and powerlifting to form the ULTIMATE unity.
Don’t you want a big arm hanging out your car window as you drive around this summer?
It’s time for a talk to the young and the old about the inevitable (devastating yet fascinating) aging process under a loaded bar. Buckle up, it’s a bumpy ride!
Poliquin, Thibadeau, and Schoenfeld, among many other writers and researchers, have popularized this method—performing multiple training sessions within a day. Here’s how I set this up for my players within a three-day split program.
There are more components to a lifting schedule than heavy training. How about training for speed?
Hitting requires an athlete to hinge and load their rear leg. Pitching requires a slight hinge and load in their rear leg prior to delivery. Defensive players need to be able to get into an athletic position to move efficiently and decisively to a ground or fly ball. RDL your athletes!
New research on concurrent training gives us more insight into how to set up our programming considering nutrition, blood flow restriction, and VO2 max.
Your training log serves so many roles for you to ultimately reflect, analyze, and attack your goals and performance. For less than a dollar, get started today and see how practicing mindfulness puts more weight on the bar.
As laborsome it is to destroy and bury your demons, it’s also vital to remember them.
There’s a big misconception that to conquer the weights you need passion and anger. Research and personal experience disagree. If you’re prepping for a powerlifting meet, it’s time to train your mind.
Strongman is a brutal sport to train for and can take a toll on your knees if you’re moving and using tools improperly. Make these few tweaks to your training and you’ll be pain-free. I guarantee it.
If you’re looking to be strong, improve durability, and look better, quiet technique will get you there with less wear and tear. Here are implications and executions of this technique using a variety of exercises.
Let’s get inside the minds of the high school athletes working towards a collegiate scholarship. I interview five athletes who share their goals, sacrifices, regrets, and suggestions for coaches and parents reading this.
If your deadlift sucks at lockout, mid-position, or from the floor, you’ll want to add the stiff-legged deadlift and Romanian deadlift into your training program. Here’s how to do them correctly, with a sample training template to get started.
These sports require a high degree of mobility and stability through the shoulder, place a great deal of stress on the shoulder and elbow, and require an effective and efficient synchronization of the upper and lower limbs—the perfect storm for a specialty bar to keep you safe and sound.
Athletes need to be better at their sport. Period. Coaches, fine-tune your needs analysis with precision so you can respectively answer the question above through program design.
The Power of a Note is an outreach tool for parents, educators, and personal trainers to help a child with autism reach his highest potential through movement and health.
Unfortunately, so many coaches only focus on performance because that’s how they were coached.
Let me walk you through a new weight room and share my processes for creating an exercise selection chart to best meet the needs of your athletes.
Do you swing more towards one side than the other? I can tell you that I did. So, we decided to try a progression to work both single-leg and double-leg exercises. Here is what the eight weeks looked like for our athletes.
The muscles and connective tissues that are loaded make for a trifecta of hypertrophy, strength, and conditioning. Time under tension is a beautiful thing. Try this today!
I’m giving more emphasis on “core” than I have ever before. After four weeks of adding in this X work, it’s amazing how much better our athletes feel and look while running, doing agilities, and lifting.
