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Top 5 Baseball Strength Training Myths
Superstition is as synonymous with baseball as pine tar and Cracker Jacks. Some superstitions, like not washing your lucky socks, are harmless (although...
Kettlebell Swing vs. Olympic Lifting: Which Is Better?
As an athlete your training time is finite. Between morning and afternoon practices and games on the weekends it serves you best to know that any extra...
Build Hockey Speed and Power with the Hang Clean
Hockey speed and power is improved upon by utilizing various off-ice exercises, namely found through different power oriented and Olympic lifting...
2014 Summer Training Guide: Wrestling
Program by Anthony Glass, director of strength and conditioning for Olympic sports at The Ohio State University, where he is responsible for the wrestling program. What Matters Now Summer is [...]
Why You May Not Need Olympic Lifts
You'll find Olympic lifts in many training programs prescribed by your coaches and even here on STACK.com. That’s not a bad thing. Olympic lifts increase your power through triple extension [...]
Build Strength Fast With Cal Basketball’s 4-Week Workout
It's that time of the year again, Spring workouts start for us 2 weeks after the season ends. Last year I used an insane amount of volume in the B2B...
Essentials of Spring Football Training
As we enter the spring, college and high school athletes around the country will begin taking part in spring football training. Teams hit the weight...
Is CrossFit a Good ‘Fit’ For Baseball Players?
It seems like you can walk more the 20 yards nowadays without crossing paths with a CrossFit affiliated gym. Unless you've been living underneath a rock...
You’re Doing It Wrong: Strength Training
Chances are, you're making exercise selection and strength training much more complicated than it needs to be. Check this out: Imagine two houses are...
Get Fit Like U.S. Special Forces
Soldiers don’t graduate from Special Forces training as much as they survive it. Army Ranger School loses a fourth of its class in the first four days. More than 75 [...]