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 [...]
Why More Athletes Should Use Cyclist Squats
When it comes to total lower-body development, Squats are king. When it comes to specifically engaging the inner most portion of the quadriceps, or the “Tear Drop” muscle known as [...]
Why Your Grip Strength Is One of the Best Predictors of Your Life Span
A firm handshake is often considered polite, but it can also carry greater implications. Specifically, research has established a strong link between one's grip strength and their expected longevity. Those [...]
4 Hacks to Make Your Muscle-Building Workouts More Effective
It takes a lot of commitment to go to the gym or weight room and give your best effort. Many people, be them athletes or average Joes, share a common [...]
How Lifting Weights Changes the Female Body
Jennifer Lopez, Kate Upton, Serena Williams, Kacy Catanzaro. We see them on television or magazine covers or walking the red carpet, and we wonder at their various ages, how they [...]
What Are ‘Extreme’ Isometrics? The Excruciating, Extraordinary Bodyweight Exercises You’ve Never Tried
What if I told you there was an exercise that could make you run faster, jump higher and lift heavier, using nothing more than your own body weight? And that [...]
Why Not Wanting to ‘Get Bulky’ Is a Dumb Reason to Avoid Weight Training
The fear of "getting bulky" is used by many athletes, male and female, as an excuse to avoid the weight room. If you have trained like an animal non-stop for [...]
5 Habits of Hard-Working High School Athletes
If there's one character trait coaches want to see in every athlete, it's a tireless work ethic. Hard-working individuals are coveted regardless of age, gender or level of play. The [...]
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 You Don’t Need a Barbell to Make Kids Better Athletes
The barbell is considered the essential implement in modern strength training. And for good reason. The first written record of the barbell came in 1854 from French strong man and [...]