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3 Best Plyometric Exercises for Speed
Athletes can achieve top speed by maximizing their power production. When designed and implemented correctly, plyometric exercises is an effective and efficient way to increase the power produced in an [...]
3 Simple Commandments That’ll Guide You to Greater Fitness
Improving your fitness can sometimes feel like rocket science. Fall down the wrong rabbit hole, and suddenly you're surrounded by complex terminology and insane diet and training programs. For the [...]
4 Relative Strength Standards to Improve Sprint Speed
Let’s face it: if you want to be fast, you need to sprint fast—and sprint fast often. Speed is a skill after all, and like any other skill, improvement is [...]
Build Baseball Power With These 7 Explosive Exercises
As baseball off-season training is kicking into full gear, I've decided to provide a list of all-star exercises that have helped us produce the fastest,...
Meet MaryBeth Price: The 103-Pound Professional Sprinter Who Can Lift More Than You
At 5-foot-1, 103 pounds, MaryBeth Price doesn’t look like your average sprinter. That’s just fine by her, because when the gun fires, she's anything but average. Price, a 24-year-old professional [...]
Why the Best Distance Runners ‘Train Like Athletes’
At his home on the beaches of Portsea, Australia, Percy Cerutty created one of the most innovative training camps in running history. Cerutty’s camp produced elite athletes. Most notably, Herb [...]
Design Your Own High School Strength and Conditioning Program
Back in my high school days our football coach had a pretty solid strength and conditioning program. Kids lifted, got stronger, and we had a pretty good...
Why In-Season Strength Training Is Essential for Soccer Players
"In-season training is not necessary," one youth soccer coach once uttered to me. "My kid is too busy to make time for in-season strength training," one parent has told me, [...]
This 15-Year-Old Sprinting Phenom Could Be On Team USA At The 2020 Olympics
Kayla Davis is a name to remember. A 15-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina, Davis is a track and field phenom. In June, she set a world record at the New [...]
Get in Shape Fast With the 20-Minute Hurricane Workout
Here’s how people used to work out: lift weights, do cardio, go home. Then came the advent of metabolic training, when science revealed you can build muscle and burn fat [...]