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Exercise of the Week: Overhead Squat
Squatting exercises are a primary way to develop hip and leg strength, which is why most athletes perform some variation of the Squat in their workout programs. Most focus on [...]
Curtis Granderson's Opening Day Power Source
Longing for some extra pop in your bat for the season debut? Does Curtis Granderson of the New York Yankees hit opening day home runs? Granderson hit a go-ahead bomb [...]
A Simple Solution for Better Barefoot Training
By now, you're probably aware of the tremendous benefits of barefoot training—including increased foot, ankle and calf strength, which result in improved speed and change-of-direction ability. Sprinting or performing drills [...]
Dwyane Wade’s Glute-Strengthening Exercise for Jumping Higher
Basketball players often suffer from quad-dominance. In simple terms, this means that the quads are doing more work then they should, while the hamstrings and glutes are not functioning at [...]
2010 STACK Elite 50 Colleges: #4 North Carolina
Mindful that you’re a student-athlete—and not just a student—we offer you the 4th Annual STACK Elite 50 Colleges, a ranking of the best schools for academically-minded athletes. After months of [...]
Improve Full-Body Strength and Conditioning With Complexes
Elite athletes, like UNC Tar Heel basketball players, work complexes into their training programs to simultaneously improve strength and conditioning in an incredibly efficient manner. A complex is a group [...]
Amp Your Core Power With Peyton Manning
Despite his success and his multitude of accolades—four-time NFL MVP, 10-time Pro Bowler, rocket-arm status—Peyton Manning spends a good portion of his off-season in a weight room chasing his next [...]
Exercise of the Week: Inverted Row on TRX Straps
Instability exercises are essential for all athletes. They develop overall strength and stabilizer muscles, which allow you to execute your skills safely and powerfully without limitations. Instability is often incorporated [...]
Tear Up the Track With Usain Bolt
1 Assume athletic position under pad with feet slightly wider than shoulder width and toes pointed out slightly 2 Keeping weight on heels and knees behind toes, slowly lower into [...]
Explosive Med Ball Drills
Olympic lifts [Cleans and Snatches] are among the best at helping athletes become faster, stronger and more powerful, because the athlete must move explosively to perform the lifts correctly. However [...]