Utilization and Progressions of the Hip Thrust in Baseball
Hip thrusts are my go-to exercise for minor league baseball players to improve strength and acceleration. Here’s a typical progression I use for my players. And no, we don’t load this movement at the start.
A Different Look at the Dynamic Effort Method for Athletes
Why not do speed work with the movements that your athletes will see in their sport?
Murph's Top 10 Exercises With The Biggest Carry Over
These training movements provide benefits helpful to every kind of lifter, athlete, or strength enthusiast. No matter what you’re trying to accomplish, they can help.
My Hateful Eight
In honor of Tarantino’s most recent big-screen release, I’ve decided to release my own Hateful Eight: the eight exercises and training modalities that make me shudder with anxiety, angst, and downright hatred.
Army's fitness training fails the combat test
In today's Army saying drop and give me 50 might not be what soldiers are expecting when training for combat.
WATCH: Basic Linear Speed Acceleration Drills in a Team Setting
Training athletes in a team setting poses problems that are easily overlooked. Here are several coaching strategies and cues to get your athletes moving smarter and faster.
Training Sprint Speed at 90%. Fast Enough?
Make sure your athletes sprint intensity is high enough to develop speed or low enough to elicit recovery.
WATCH: Resisted Sprints with the Prowler
This purpose of the video is not to convince you to incorporate resisted sprinting in your program. The purpose is to provide you with a brief overview of an alternate way to use elitefts™ bands as a more practical harness in a large group setting when using a prowler or sled.
Resisted Band Jump, Tuck Jump, Sprint Complex
A short complex for intermediate athletes to develop jumping ability and linear speed
Strength Training in the Military (Part 3)
Last we heard from Jesse Pierce, he was working to meet the Army’s physical fitness standards. Has he achieved his goal?
Keck's Column: HIIT is the Best, or So They Say
Team elitefts™ Columnist Michael Keck takes on HIIT training,
Military Training: There Isn't Any Secret
I was originally going to call this article “The Secrets of Military Training,” but given recent events in the last four months, everyone out there seems to be exposing the “secrets” of how our military trains.
Five Ways to Improve 'On the Field' Speed
Not only does speed kill, it wins games and wins championships.
Is Your Finisher Going to Finish You?
You’ve just spent an hour doing a grueling full body workout. Your body is spent from deep, heavy squats, weighted chins, and max effort incline presses. So what do you do now? How about loading up the bar for deadlifts? Why not do them with an underhand grip while you’re at it? Or while standing on a low box?
The Simple Guide to Speed Training
Spend a few minutes listening to people and gurus talk about speed training nowadays and it shouldn’t be too hard to understand why the average person can leave a speed training conversation with a billion more questions then they had when they started.
