These alternate setups for non-traditional microcycles in a powerlifting program have allowed my clients and I to target the specific needs of individual athletes.
Is this “natural” supplement used to reduce blood lipids all it’s cracked up to be?
Would you rather engage in gratitude and abundance, or anger and vileness towards people you’ll never actually meet? Which is more meaningful?
As your athletes grow and develop, so should the movement patterns of their program.
This typical throw-away, punishment exercise is in fact a highly-technical skill capable of teaching and reinforcing proper movement patterns.
If you are about to enter your freshman year of college, follow these tips for an easy transition.
It appears that more coaches are concerned with the results that they get from doing particular exercises in the weight room and with particular pieces of equipment.
The implications on parental physical condition at the time of procreation.
Training is best when aged slowly, like a fine wine.
The most important thing to remember when prepping for any sort of football combine is that you aren’t getting ready for a football game.
You are only as strong as your weakest link; when that link breaks, the related injury can keep you out of the gym for an extended period of time.
Your coaching facility should be a place where work is accomplished, goals are met, and pride is instilled.
In the second part of this two-part interview, Dave speaks to Julia Ladewski about the importance of comprehensive program in order to prevent injuries.
Dave Tate and Julia Ladewski talk athletic training.
What is the history of the block periodization concept, and how has it evolved into what it is today?
“The Nation today needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country’s debt to them.”
–General Omar Bradley
I learned that it’s pointless to bring a gun to a knife fight, if you will.
The deadlift can be considered as one of the best tests of overall body strength. It is a multi joint movement that in simple terms involves picking up a barbell from the floor and standing to the erect position.
One of the underlying characteristics that I notice about successful lifters and bodybuilders that I’m around is that they never let their gym, genetics, schedule or anything for that matter, get in their way.
I thank God for football and I would not be where I am today without it.
So, hopefully if we all continue to do our jobs really well, every coach will be educated on proper exercise execution.
Looking back, I think it was a highly successful summer of training.
Everything is a competition to this guy. Even in a basic email exchange, he has to get the better of you. To some people this is probably grating. To me, it’s funny, and it’s also a valuable lesson in realizing that it pays to be “on” and paying full attention at all times.
My father once told me that a good teammate is someone who can carry his own weight and some of yours too when you need him to.
Attention coaches: consider the athletes you coach and how they move during contests.
When developing the strength and explosiveness program for the University of Pittsburgh men’s hockey team, there were several factors I had to take into consideration as a coach. Hopefully my experience thus far will help you in similar situations.
Strength coaches, our critical off-season is being taken away before our very eyes.
The following is an analysis of the strength requirements and the relative importance of maximal strength for different disciplines in track and field.
This is why I have long since abandoned the debate over exercise selection that does not fall within the realm of special physical preparation.
Teams keep hoping that their players will not get injured.
You can perform form running techniques and jumping techniques until the cows come home, but no matter how pretty the form looks, you won’t see many improvements if there isn’t a massive amount of force being applied to the ground.
Don’t be fooled, this is highly metabolic and will jack up your heart rate very quickly.
It’s around that season where email questions shift from “How can I bench more?” to “I only have a few weeks left to prepare for the fall sports season—how can I get huge!?”
Team DOS just received the new Econo Prowler a couple months ago with the intent of using the hell out of it.
The other day in the gym, the topic of ab training for strength came up. I figured there was nobody better to ask than 1100 pound squatter Matt Wenning.
The deadlift is the lift that a new powerlifter initially moves the biggest weights with and makes the most immediate progress.
This is part two of a two-part series.
Justin Cecil is a full time staff member at St. Vincent Sports Performance in Indiana, and serves as the head strength and conditioning coach at Lawrence Central High School.
In October 2008, I joined the U.S. Army. I’m going to share my story about seven months of Army physical training compared to my experience as a veteran powerlifter.
Josh Bryant is a speed, strength, and conditioning coach. He is also a personal trainer who has works with many clients in person at Metroflex Gym in Arlington, Texas and via the internet.
How many people do you see in the gym trying to make an exercise more difficult, believing the more difficult it is, the more effective the exercise will be?
It was Friday night. I set my alarm for 5:00 a.m. This was nothing new, but when I woke up in five hours, I would be starting my trek to one of the strongest gyms in the Midwest—the EliteFTS compound.
Static but not dynamic stretching decreases strength
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.
I’m a lifter just like you. I’m not a trainer nor do I have any connection to the strength and conditioning field outside of elitefts™.
