Some people will tell you that overtraining isn’t real. Don’t listen to these people. Take the time to consider your recovery just as much as you consider your training.
Remember all those things you wish you would have known when you started? Maybe we should do more than laugh at the guy across the gym doing machine decline iso-lateral presses.
Deloads are extremely useful for making continual progress from harsh training. When the time comes for you to back off the weights, make sure you do it the right way.
Discourage injuries through coaching basics that will appropriately prep your athletes for the field and weight room.
Get more out of your standard barbell and dumbbell set by the swivel of a bolt and the tightening of a wing nut. It’s that easy.
Your career in this world of strength will only go as far as your desire to win. Lose that, and you lose any chance you ever had to succeed.
There is a well-known saying in our industry: information in strength and conditioning doubles every eighteen months. How will you keep up?
There’s a lot of hatred thrown around when a lifter hits a federation record. Should we be celebrating the PR with them?
Build your winning culture the same way you build in the weight room: every session, every set, and every rep leading to game day.
With summer programming for athletes, control what you can control and don’t sweat the rest.
Can proper implementation of unilateral exercise produce healthier, higher-performing athletes?
You might need a long-term progression to overcome nagging pains and to increase your lifts. Or maybe you just need these simple tips.
The expense of climbing the wrong mountain is falling back down before finding the right one. Choose wisely.
From your job, from your marriage, or from a loaded barbell, your body is going to revolt against stress. How will you adjust?
In your search of what is new and exciting, do not forget the principles that are proven to produce success.
When I tore my rotator cuff, I transitioned to more concentrated stimuli and a higher frequency per muscle group to avoid being forced to reduce my training intensity.
With all the new technology for improving athletic performance, strength coaches should remember why they are there in the first place.
We gave up the glamour and comfort of a commercial gym. Here in our dungeon, 15-feet underground, we’ve found the secret to building strength.
After a lucrative eight-year career in the world of trading equity derivatives, this gym-owner gave up Wall Street for a life of sports training.
Having the opportunity to bring up the next generation of strength athletes is a task as much as a privilege. Use your influence wisely.
Doctors and strength athletes frequently argue over the effects (good and bad) of performance-enhancing drugs, but some facts aren’t debatable.
In constant strive to get better as a coach and staff, these six things will prove useful.
Bad information is passed from lifter to lifter, website to website. Let’s end the charade.
Whether you’re an off-season athlete or an athlete who isn’t getting everything you want out of your school’s team sports, powerlifting can be a viable option in your yearly process.
If you can survive these challenges it will be good for…but it won’t feel that way.
Pack in the calories and pack on the pounds. Does your stomach have what it takes to eat like Chad Aichs?
If you’re relying on the wave of popularity to bring you clients, what will you do when the dry season comes.
Do more than count the reps of your clients. Build these skills and you’ll increase the value of your personal training services.
What if I gave you a singular technique that would improve your athletic performance in any way you wanted?
Is the Russian conjugate system superior to the Westside conjugate system? Are they they same?
Stop thinking of your traps and start thinking of your clavicles.
Experts weigh in on the reasons behind all of training pain and preparation of competing in a strength sport.
We cut the time in the gym and on the field, hoping to increase efficiency. Now we find out: did it work?
I have my own demons to keep in line. They’re a product of my disorders and I’ve learned to accept this.
Proper communication and behavior requires a firm understanding of your surroundings and of those with whom you interact.
Two programs outline how to use the ballistic methods of kettlebell training to improve joint mobility and strengthen ligaments and tendons for a competitive edge.
I run my kitchen and gym the way I want to. Follow the rules and there won’t be any problems.
Let’s climb in the driver seat of that car with a performance-tuned suspension and a set of tires that will connect that power to the ground and put the pedal to the floor!
You can adjust thousands of variables in your training but until you find which ones truly matter, you’re going nowhere.
Your treatment of others is the foundation of every relationship in your life. Are you building yours up or breaking them down?