So You Wanna Be a Fighter?: Part One
So You Wanna Be a Fighter?: Part One
It’s been a while since I’ve contributed an article to this site and so much has changed.
An Interview with Cal Dietz
An Interview with Cal Dietz
I’m the head Olympic strength and conditioning coach at the University of Minnesota and am currently working with eight sports. These include men’s and women’s hockey, men’s basketball, men’s track and field, men’s swimming, baseball, and men’s and women’s golf.
Dads and Sons
Dads and Sons
As I look back, I realize that the time spent between a father and a son is by far the most precious thing that we, as men, can give to our sons. The time spent with dad is the most important time a boy can have in his entire life.
 Why Bodybuilding Is NOT for Athletes
Why Bodybuilding Is NOT for Athletes
The biggest problem I come across with athletes is their current training regime. Everyone wants to train like a bodybuilder. I don't know if it’s the current trend in muscle magazines or misinformation, or maybe the athletes simply don't have the proper goals in mind. Nevertheless, changes need to be made.
How We Use the Prowler
How We Use the Prowler
The latest installment in our “How We Use The Prowler” series comes from Elliott Hulse of St. Petersburg, Florida.
How We Use The Prowler
How We Use The Prowler
A few weeks ago, we decided to put together a roundtable-style article about the use of the Prowler...
An Interview with Rob MacIntyre
An Interview with Rob MacIntyre

Rob “Spray” MacIntyre is a strength coach for some top level athletes. Rob, tell me a little bit about your background.

Metabolic Conditioning: One Size Does Not Fit All
Metabolic Conditioning: One Size Does Not Fit All

The concept of metabolic conditioning has to be without a doubt one of the most misunderstood topics in strength and conditioning today. It seems that every fitness guru has some different method for improving your “conditioning” with the aim of burning fat or improving performance for a specific sport. However, none of them really get to the heart of how energy production really works.

Does the Football Combine Predict Playing Ability?
Does the Football Combine Predict Playing Ability?

Football coaches know that selecting a player based on combine results is a crap shoot at best. In this article, Dr. Yessis evaluates the tests used to offer a possible explanation of why the combine results are such poor predictors of game play success.

Gain 31 Pounds Before Football Training Camp, Part 2
Gain 31 Pounds Before Football Training Camp, Part 2

On this program, you’ve got to eat. If you are skinny and weak, you need to eat a ton of food. And don’t just tell me that you “eat a lot.” I get this answer from many kids, and when I take one look at what they really consume, it turns out to be nothing more than a few slices of Elio’s Pizza and some cereal all day long.

General Versus Special Exercises
General Versus Special Exercises

One of the main distinguishing features of the Soviet system of training athletes is their distinction between general and specialized exercises.

How to Pick a Good Coach
How to Pick a Good Coach

I think we all are attracted to like people.

Elitefts Spotlight: Lacrosse’s Nicky Polanco
Elitefts Spotlight: Lacrosse’s Nicky Polanco

If you don’t know anything about lacrosse – if you’ve never actually seen a game – chances are you’ve bought into the almost universal, yet severely mistaken, notion that it’s a leisure class sport populated by rich preppie-types from elite private schools in the Northeast.

The Aerobic Fallacy
The Aerobic Fallacy

I believe that it’s part of my job as a fitness expert to bring the science to you. Much of what is currently out there is based on nothing but tradition and acceptance. You can do what you want with the information I’m going to present, but all I ask is that you at least give it some thought.

The Misconception
The Misconception

As a strength and conditioning coach, I feel there’s a duty not only to educate and learn from fellow sport-specific coaches on proper implementation of strength and conditioning programs but to educate and learn from the athletes as well.

Spud Inc. Jump Rings for Explosive Results in Athletic Performance
Spud Inc. Jump Rings for Explosive Results in Athletic Performance

A slow athlete needs to develop speed-strength. Here is how.

Review of Explosive Running by Anatoly Bondarchuk
Review of Explosive Running by Anatoly Bondarchuk

Short, middle, and long-distance runners all need explosiveness.

Strength Sports, Gear, and Where It’s Going
Strength Sports, Gear, and Where It’s Going

I consider a strength sport to be any sport where strength plays a major role. This includes sports like powerlifting, weightlifting, highland games, Strongman, shot put, discus, hammer, javelin, and stone lifting. All of the athletes in these sports are very strong, but how much of a role does strength actually play in becoming the best?

Seven Principles for Better Program Design
Seven Principles for Better Program Design

It’s important to recognize that effective programming can be accomplished within realistic timeframes by almost anyone willing to put in the work.

Importance of Fast Twitch Capacity in Football Training
Importance of Fast Twitch Capacity in Football Training

With the beginning of football season, the long anticipated excitement for the early powerhouse match ups has finally arrived.

Sandbag Arsenal
Sandbag Arsenal

One of the biggest problems that we face in training today’s athletes is that they’re out of shape! Whether professional or amateur, many of these athletes come to their teams severely unconditioned. With physical education programs being cut from school curriculums and child obesity rising every year, we need to take a long hard look at the values that physical conditioning provides.

The Secret Behind Their Success
The Secret Behind Their Success

While at the Syracuse seminar, several of us chatted about the gyms and teams that were always kicking major ass. They all had the same thing in common—attitude. This attitude spread like wildfire throughout the gym and equated to success, BIG success.

Forcing Our Minors to Major: Youth Athletic Specialization
Forcing Our Minors to Major: Youth Athletic Specialization

For children living in the United States, sports are as common as television and snack time.

Blue Collar Strongman Training
Blue Collar Strongman Training

What would be more effective is to change the dynamics of the lift slightly to stimulate new recruitment patterns and increase the use of often neglected muscles.

Torso Training – Part 3: Advanced Training Exercises
Torso Training – Part 3: Advanced Training Exercises

In the past two articles, we have given you ideas and progressions for strengthening your torso. As you know by now, strong abs isn’t all that is needed.

Torso Training – Part 2: Basic Rotational Exercises
Torso Training – Part 2: Basic Rotational Exercises

In this article, the second in our Torso Training series, we will cover rotational exercises that don’t specifically target the rectus ab.

Torso Training for Athletes, Part 1: The Basics
Torso Training for Athletes, Part 1: The Basics

What is torso training? Torso training is strengthening your body from just above the hips to just below the chest. Training your torso involves many movements, but can be done effectively in just a few minutes, 3-4 times per week.

Strength Considerations for Throwers in Track and Field
Strength Considerations for Throwers in Track and Field

Most periodized training programs for athletes follow a Western or linear model.

The Unmaking of an Athlete
The Unmaking of an Athlete

I sometimes wonder if there are any prerequisites at all to getting a job as college strength and conditioning coach.

Strength and No Holds Barred Fighting
Strength and No Holds Barred Fighting

“Strength is an essential component of all human performance and its formal development can no longer be neglected in the preparation of any athlete”

The Socratic Method
The Socratic Method

One of the first pressing, inquisitive minds who stepped on the face of this earth was Socrates.

Auto Regulatory Training Part 1
Auto Regulatory Training Part 1

The individual control and systematic manipulation of volumetric management is largely dependant upon the proper integration of critical training variables.

Super Compensation
Super Compensation

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.

Barbell Bullshit
Barbell Bullshit

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.

Auto Regulatory Training Part 2
Auto Regulatory Training Part 2

The training process must include a critical and determined degree of fatigue, followed by an appropriate duration to which Reserve Strength may be elicited.

Auto Regulatory Training Part 1
Auto Regulatory Training Part 1

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.

Training High School Athletes
Training High School Athletes

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.

General Training Journal For High School Field Athletes
General Training Journal For High School Field Athletes

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.

Westside and the Log Press
Westside and the Log Press

Get fast and slam a big log up overhead. As an added bonus your bench will go up too.

Pick Your Poison
Pick Your Poison

This article is all about you, as a unique individual, training for your goals and based on your needs.

Swinging at Bad Pitches
Swinging at Bad Pitches

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

Westside Training and Football
Westside Training and Football

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

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