With so many other fitness tools out there, why the sandbag?
I actually got hurt my junior year playing soccer there, and our athletic trainer was talking about this whole “training athletes” thing.
There are many self-proclaimed “experts” today who quote research on how to get lean, build muscle mass, and other physique enhancing programs.
With high school football coming to an end, many high performance football training dungeons and gyms are prepping for off-season training.
In all sports, the rudimentary beginnings of movement starts with a specific stance or posture.
While training a client the other afternoon, I began to wonder what exactly separates me as a trainer and a coach?
Every day at the gym, I watch people spend anywhere from 10–30 minutes on their upper abs, lower abs, and sides.
One thing that absolutely baffles me about most football strength training programs is that everyone does the same thing.
I’ve heard people say it takes too long to teach the full Olympic lifts correctly and that an Olympic lift with poor technique isn’t safe or effective.
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.
I’ve been saying for years that fat people finish marathons all the time.
The Reactive Training Manual has been available for over a year now.
Although they aren’t brand new, there’s a reason Blast Straps have continued to challenge athletes into 2010.
There are two major areas that have made a profound difference in my training—proper starting position and sound programming.
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.
I feel a man should be able to lift heavy shit, bust out 10 or more pull-ups, and get up at any given time and bang out two or three miles.
For all the serious lifters out there wondering what they’ll do when they’re no longer able to handle the daily grind that their sport necessitates, I have a suggestion—teaching.
Read all you can on the sport. A great place to start is the EliteFTS.com articles section.
When Dave Tate posted his question on Facebook regarding the newest Fat Bar and Fat Gripz products, he was trying to find out how people liked training with them.
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.”
