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Maintain Strength During the Season With These 20-Minute Workouts
Two In-Season Condensed and Intense Total Body Workouts By Jim Carpentier, CSCS In-season workouts help maintain and/or build muscle so athletes stay...
Start Spring Workouts With These Muscle-Building Reps
Start Spring Workouts with These Muscle-Building Reps By Jim Carpentier, C.S.C.S. The start of spring signifies change, renewal, and regrowth – and it's...
A Beginner’s Approach to Strength Training
So, you've decided to start a strength training program. Where to begin? There are so many options and so much information that it can all be a little...
How to Build Maximal Strength, the True Measure of Brute Force
Maximal strength is critical for sports performance. It impacts sprinting, jumping, throwing, hitting, batting, kicking, stopping, changing directions,...
WATCH: Temple’s Kyle Friend Bench Presses 225 Pounds 41 Times at His Pro Day
The NFL Combine record for most reps on the 225-pound Bench Press was set in 2011 by Stephen Paea, a defensive tackle, when he hit 49 reps. Temple's Kyle Friend [...]
3 Workout Hacks to Make Supersets More Effective
3 Supersets you've never done A superset is a common method used in strength coaching programs to do more work in less time. Typically, what you do is...
Why the Latest Exercise Craze is Dangerous and Stupid
We get it—you want to perform impressive exercises in the weight room. Bench press a weight equivalent to a dump truck? Sure, sounds great. Deadlift so much weight that you [...]
A Quick In-Season Ab and Arm Workout for Baseball Players
A Quick Abs and Arms Workout Ideal for Baseball Season By Jim Carpentier, C.S.C.S. As athletes at all levels hit the baseball and softball diamond this...
WATCH: Jason Pierre-Paul Reps Out With 225 Pounds on the Bench Press Despite Missing Two Fingers
Jason Pierre-Paul's return to the New York Giants defensive line midway through the 2015 NFL season showed that the man can still get after the quarterback despite having blown off two [...]
Build a Stronger Chest With the Dumbbell Floor Press
We know the saying, "There's more than one way to skin a cat." However, that saying for some reason does not fit well within the Strength and...
