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The Workout Terms and Equipment Athletes Need to Know
If you’re new to working out, some of the terms you might hear spoken around the weight room or have read on your workout chart might seem like a foreign [...]
Why Arm Drive Drills for Speed Training Aren’t That Important
Many athletes and coaches tend to think that arm drive is the magic solution to sprint faster. It's not, although it does provide a strong secondary...
Rest-Pause Training Will Help You Maintain Your Strength in the Final Minutes of a Game
Rest Pause Training is a technique that can help you improve strength and maintain it for a longer period of time. This will serve you well as an...
How to Harness Coffee’s Sports Performance Benefits
Caffeine is a legal performance enhancing drug, in fact, it's even on the WADA's monitoring program for possible in-competition abuse. Caffeine has been...
Combine Freeweight and Bodyweight Exercises for Easy Supersets
Body Weight vs. Free Weight Exercises? Two Tough Workouts Mixing Both Training Methods By Jim Carpentier, CSCS Visualize a gym with one side comprising...
Why You Shouldn’t Structure Your Workouts Like a Bodybuilder
Athletes are not bodybuilders. Now, before I get shoved into a gym locker by 250 pounds of hairless muscle, let me clarify; a bodybuilder is an athlete...
Perform the Landmine Chest Press to Build Strength and Save Your Shoulders
Most strength training programs borrow heavily from power lifting and understandably so since power lifting is a sport where increased strength is the...
The Beginner’s Guide to Strength Training
Walking into a gym for the first time can be quite intimidating. Strong lifters will be moving massive amounts of weight while you might have a hard time doing a [...]
Regularly Change an Exercise’s Angle for Better Long-Term Results
There are countess reasons to get your behind to the gym. Maybe you want to prepare for a sport. Maybe you want to impress your high school crush. Maybe...
Why Working Out With Barbells Isn’t Right for All Athletes
The barbell has been the epitome of strength and muscle building for a long time. And rightfully so as you're able to load them with as much weight as...