One of the toughest aspects of fight preparation is weight cutting.
Focusing on making the athlete stronger with just his own body weight will help reduce his risk of injury as well as make him more functional and athletic.
Safety is much more than just spotting and cleaning up. It is what can define your entire program.
If your athlete is running with his arms swinging from side to side, he is suffering from teenage kid syndrome.
Dr. Yuri Verkhoshansky lost his life due to health complications this past Wednesday the 23rd of June.
The lifts are challenging and fun and will provide a new challenge.
Four years ago, a 150-pound, self-proclaimed “skate punk”, walked into our facility looking to get bigger and stronger so he could play high school football.
Hopefully, this article will convince some of you to change your ways or if you’re a beginning trainee, sway you to begin your programming in a manner that we consider correct.
What happened to the word “train” in training? Did it get lost in the Smith machine?
A gym or road race can bring together members who may have nothing in common except for their love of achieving physical self-actualization.
Techniques can be learned, but it takes exceptional power and strength to perform maneuvers on another of similar size and strength in a competitive setting.
Football players are completely clueless about nutrition.
The get up will bring out everyone’s weak points; it’s a great assessment tool and corrective movement and also one of the greatest full body strength exercises.
I was asked by a group of peewee league football parents to train their kids for the upcoming tryouts.
The point of the sport is to hurl a 16 pound ball attached to a four-foot-long wire as far as you can.
Steve discusses four great conditioning moves for football linemen.
After analyzing this, is the leg press really safer than the squat?
It’s important for young basketball athletes to have a sound understanding of what they can do to recover physically from the rigors of a long season and prepare themselves for the next season.
Jamie discusses how evidence and research prove arguments, not certification and fancy degrees.
During the past six years I have been able to experience a very diverse background of training as it applies to the game football.
Dan Hardy, Joe DeFranco and EFS equipment are featured in action on Spike TV.
When you get Joe Kenn and Jim Wendler in the same room, what do you get?
Off-season is upon us! It’s time to bench, squat, and power clean until your players puke.
Due to the great success of Gray Cook’s functional movement screen, movement assessment techniques are becoming more and more popular among strength and conditioning coaches.
Growing up, I played a variety of sports and fell in love with weight training when I was 13 years old.
He asked how I approached training ninth grade football players.
When training athletes, an all-inclusive approach works best.
In my career as a private strength coach, I’ve had the pleasure of working with some very talented players.
I used to be an athlete. Not a great one but an athlete all the same.
Jimmy Campbell’s record is eleven wins with just four losses.
Reactive Training Systems (RTS) began as a training system for powerlifters.
With so many other fitness tools out there, why the sandbag?
What is one of the biggest mistakes strength coaches, personal trainers, athletes and lifters make?
I actually got hurt my junior year playing soccer there, and our athletic trainer was talking about this whole “training athletes” thing.
With high school football coming to an end, many high performance football training dungeons and gyms are prepping for off-season training.
When you get Joe Kenn and Jim Wendler in the same room, what do you get?
In all sports, the rudimentary beginnings of movement starts with a specific stance or posture.
Over the last month I’ve been working with the local high school to develop a program to physically prepare the athletes for their given sport.
While training a client the other afternoon, I began to wonder what exactly separates me as a trainer and a coach?
However, I’ve had to fire a few clients. I love a business where the business owner fires his clients.
Chad Smith launched his 2010 season at the Lumberjack Invitational at Northern Arizona University. He clenched second, tearing at the heels of defending U.S. Indoor champion and No. 4 in the world, Dan Taylor.
One thing that absolutely baffles me about most football strength training programs is that everyone does the same thing.
The goal isn’t to be a powerlifter or Strongman but to become as strong, fast, and insanely explosive as humanly possible so you can dominate on the football field.
Now that football season is coming to an end, many kids are looking to get stronger and faster for next season.
It was during the conditioning portion of my son’s football practice that I heard one of the greatest motivational lines I’ve heard in my 34 years of playing sports and coaching.
The most glaring issue I’ve seen is the lack of athletic movement in all kids in all sports of all ages.
In 1998, the American Journal of Sports Medicine featured an article titled, “The Association Between the Menstrual Cycle and Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in Female Athletes.”
Here are six ways to easily implement sandbags into your football strength and conditioning program.
Too often, we get caught up in all the bells and whistles of lifting and forget the building blocks.
I’ve found that I have the best alone time when walking my dogs on a nice morning. A few days ago, it was unseasonable warm here in Pennsylvania, and I was spending some quality time with two of my dogs. I started thinking about training.
I put this program together to try and maximize strength and mass as much as possible. I am a believer that you need to get stronger to get bigger. And also just want to be strong, but also large a lean.
How long does it take an overweight powerlifter to turn into a chiseled X-men Wolverine? According to Jason Adams, 16 weeks.