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Exercise of the Week: Overhead Med Ball Throws
Every Wednesday, STACK features an Exercise of the Week to help you improve your overall sports performance—including strength, speed, size and flexibility. This week we highlight Overhead Med Ball Throws, [...]
The Weight of Water: New HydroPower Bag Builds Strength and Stability
Most athletes come to a point where they simply go through the motions of a workout because it’s no longer exciting or challenging. This is a dangerous phase for any [...]
Resistance Speed: The Key to Increasing Speed, Strength and Power
We all hear that we need to push ourselves—go hard or go home—and even stretch our comfort level when training. There are science-based theories that support this mentality, like the [...]
CrossFit: Pushing New Levels of Performance or Crossing the Line?
Over the past few years, CrossFit has taken the world by storm. It’s a type of training that uses standardized workouts for all individuals, with a variety of exercises that [...]
Improve Foot Speed Even When Fatigued
Improving speed for football requires more than pure speed training. You must also train your fast-twitch muscles to produce powerful movements even when they're tired. This is the chief benefit [...]
Exercise of the Week: Bull Rush
Developing a powerful stride is important for creating first-step quickness and overall speed. Powerful legs allow you to apply more force into the ground with each stride and propel forward [...]
Training 'Til You Puke: A Sign of Hard Work or Incorrect Training?
Pushing yourself to the max when training is key to improving performance. Anything less than 100 percent effort reduces potential performance gains and allows your competition to gain an edge. [...]
The Key to Explosion and Power
For many athletic skills, strength and power originate by simultaneously extending the hips, knees and ankles—referred to as triple extension. The more explosively you can execute triple extension, the faster [...]
Exercise of the Week: Spider-Man Stretch
Flexibility should be a critical component of every training program—one that every athlete should strive to improve. You can actually increase your speed and strength by simply improving your hip [...]
Explosive Strength and Power: The Keys to Jumping Higher and Being Faster
Getting faster and jumping higher are two highly-sought goals for athletes in training programs—and for good reason. Fast athletes leave opponents in the dust, recover the ball to make a [...]