Strength Training Exercises
Get Strong!
What do we want as athletes (or as coaches for our athletes)? To be able to play at our best, dominate our opponents, win, and stay injury free the whole [...]
Can Push-Ups be More Effective Than Bench Press?
Nobody ever asks how many push-ups you can do. It is always how much you can bench. However, you don’t need weights, plates, bars, and dumbbells to develop strength and [...]
Top Techniques to Increase and Boost Your Grip Strength
Good grip strength is not just for a firm handshake. It will make your presses and pulls stronger. People often try to strengthen specific muscles and, let's say, not the [...]
HIFT for In-Season Training
In recent years, there's been a tidal wave of research and training methodologies to help athletes perform their best. There's never been so much information to get bigger, faster, and [...]
Demystifying the Deadlift
The deadlift. An exercise that, by name alone, evokes some incredibly strong feelings, having somehow earned an almost mythical reputation. “Never do it. It’s terrible for your back.” “The only [...]
Get A Leg Up On Your Recovery
The legs-up-a-wall pose is a worthwhile addition to your training sessions and recovery practices. For being so simple its benefits are superabundant. The pose helps to reverse the actions that [...]
Comfortably Uncomfortable – The Enemy of Progress
When people are working without the guidance of a coach or the structure of some objective markers, there is a tendency to fall into a very specific intensity of training: [...]
Do Your Methods Match Your Goals?
In our health and fitness endeavors, the overwhelming number of options, alternatives, and information at our fingertips can make it difficult to have confidence we are making the right choice. [...]
What Does It Mean to Be “Fit”?
When working in the strength and conditioning or performance realm of fitness, defined targets and benchmarks are easy to determine - there are certain requirements of the sport and through [...]
A Day in the Life of Cristiano Ronaldo: What He Eats and His Strength Training Program
What makes greatness great? Cristiano Ronaldo was just a skinny teenager when he just started playing soccer professionally. Now he is CR7; it sounds like a superhero name. Who knows, [...]
