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How to Do Dips the Right Way
Dips are a bodyweight exercise that develops the triceps and other upper-body muscles. The exercise begins when you hold on to parallel bars with your arms straight. You then bend [...]
An 8-Week Training Program for a Higher Vertical Jump
The vertical jump is a benchmark test to help determine athleticism and power. In addition to helping to determine athleticism and power, it is also a...
The 6 Best Bodyweight Exercises for Your Upper Body
Bodyweight exercises can be a great option while traveling if you're short on time or after heavy strength work to build strength and size.
4 Kettlebell Strength Exercises for Beginners
Here are a few ways that beginners can add kettlebells to their workouts.
Why Every Athlete Needs In-Season Strength Training (and How to Do It Right)
You’ve just spent the last four to six months training hard and pushing your body to new limits. You have gotten bigger, stronger and faster with hopes that your new [...]
How to Fix 4 Common Exercises Athletes Do Incorrectly
Tim Anderson at Original Strength describes movement in terms of ‘good, better and best.’ Because some movement, no matter how badly done, is better than no movement. You start at [...]
Simplicity Is Always the Key When Strength Training Youth Athletes
What is the overall purpose and/or goal of training for athletic performance at the middle school and high school levels? Any response given to this question will likely file under [...]
6 Ways Athletes Ruin Their Bodies During Their Sports Season
Your in-season schedule can be tough to manage. You’re challenged physically during practices and games, and then you’re challenged mentally with school and other obligations. Sometimes this might cause you [...]
7 Safe and Effective Bodyweight Exercises for Pre-Teen Athletes
A general consensus among health and fitness professionals is for pre-teen athletes to gradually ease into weight training by initially performing multi-joint bodyweight exercises (e.g., Wall Squats, Multidirectional Lunges, Step-Ups, [...]
How to Turn Hopscotch Into a Tough and Fun Outdoor Workout
Utilizing the Popular Playground Game Hopscotch for Elite Sports Performance By Jim Carpentier, CSCS Hopscotch is a generations-old game in which...