Can You Do 5 Chin-Ups?
Every athlete should lift weights. Every athlete from every sport can reap benefits from resistance training. Lifting weights consistently with progressive overload over time builds strength. That is the foundation [...]
Why Many Strength Coaches Consider Chin-Ups ‘The Squat of the Upper-Body’
I have a confession to make: I’ve been disrespecting Chin-Ups. Several years ago, I wrote an article for STACK that outlined how hand position changes the Pull-Up/Chin-Up exercise. For those [...]
Social Media Roundup: Elena Delle Donne Does Door-Frame Chin-Ups
Each week, with the help of Rouse Social, STACK scours the Instagram accounts of the world's best athletes to bring you their most interesting posts. Last week, Lindsey Vonn took a [...]
Triple Your Chin-Ups in 8 Weeks
Let me tell you a story about Evan and what he accomplished last winter. Evan is a 6'3", 190-pound sophomore football and lacrosse standout who wanted to improve his Chin-Ups [...]
Keys to Transfering to the Field or Court
A common concern for many still deals with making sure to accomplish proper strength transfer into sport. In other words, using or applying the highest percentage of strength from the [...]
The Off-Season is Key to a Baseball Player’s Success
The off-season is an essential time for a baseball player. It allows the athlete to address holes in their game, improve their skills, and lays the physical foundation for in-season [...]
Smart Substitutions in Training
For some of us, there’s nothing like starting a new training plan. New workouts, new formats, maybe some variations in reps or sets that we haven’t seen recently (or at [...]
Power Training for Baseball: It’s More Than Olympic Lifts
Baseball players need to be explosive and powerful to throw, hit, jump, run, and change directions. This is so important it has to consistently be addressed in a baseball player's [...]
The Importance of Deceleration for Sports – Part 2
In part #1, you were shown some of the foundational reasons why deceleration is so critical to both your short-term and long-term health and performance capacity, and now you will [...]
6-Week Soccer Goalkeeper Workout
There's a misconception that because goalkeepers aren't moving up and down the field/ice as much as other players that they might require less...