Dumbbell Exercises
How to Improve Your Basketball Explosiveness in the Weight Room
Basketball season is right around the corner and will be here before you know it. Summer ball at all levels is wrapping up and teams are starting to...
5 Effective Core Exercises That Won’t Hurt Your Lower Back
Low back pain is one of the biggest limiters of performance an athlete can experience. This is often caused by tight hip flexors. Sit ups, and other...
Get Your Legs Strong and Powerful With the Cincinnati Bengals’ Squat Routine
The Squat is one of the core lifts for the Cincinnati Bengals. And rightfully so. It’s an essential compound movement that’s essential for building lower-body strength and power. It’s also [...]
Create Your Own Training Program With This Simple Template
As an athlete you want your strength and conditioning program to give you results. With the Youtube generation of athletes among us, our athletes tend...
How to Create a Back Workout That Actually Works
Back workouts are an essential component of a complete training program that develops strong, powerful and resilient athletes. The back includes some of the largest muscles in the body that [...]
Test Your Strength and Endurance Limits With This 10-Minute Workout
This 10 minute workout is an absolute body crusher. Remember in gym class, or at the end of basketball practice, football practice, soccer (basically...
How to Maintain Strength During Your Soccer Season
To effectively design a strength training program for the in-season soccer player you must always take into account game volume, practice time and...
How to Work Out When You Have Sore Shoulders
Preventing and Overcoming Sore Shoulders While Continuing Upper Body Workouts By Jim Carpentier, CSCS Don't let tight or achy shoulders from tossing too...
Why the Upright Row is Bad for Your Shoulders (With Safe and Effective Alternatives)
The Upright Row is an exercise that targets the shoulders when you pull a barbell or dumbbells vertically to shoulder height in front of your body. Although it's a popular [...]
2 Groin Exercises That Will Improve Agility and Prevent Injuries
Slideboard Side squat Aside from those god-awful adduction/abduction machines which gather dust in the corners far displaced from the other equipment,...