training
Revisiting the Cross-Body Cable Extension
The Cross-Body Cable Extension has enormous potential to address a myriad of shoulder and upper back issues, but you're doing it wrong.
How to Put 100kg on Your Total in 15 Weeks
Dropping from the 320s to the 250s and competing as a 308 to a 242, I was forced to switch up my training split. Here's the split!
Trialing a Rotating Weekly Plan
Here are my ideas for a rotating weekly plan that I've been trialing this month with my exact exercises and training loads. I'm sore!
Time Your Sets
Why are we only prescribing duration for conditioning and not for exercises? After all, sport is timed by duration.
Louie Simmons Shocks Boris Sheiko
In 2016, Boris Sheiko met Louie Simmons for the first time. Here's how they spent their time together and what they talked about.
The Top 3 Lessons I Learned From Ed Coan
The greatest powerlifter of all time has learned a thing or two about how to be the best in the world. He approaches life the same way.
5 Things I Learned About High School S&C
Volunteering under a local public school district's strength and conditioning coach, here are five things to know as you pursue this job track.
Variable Resistance Training for Team Sports
Ask any coach, power is a prioritized physical quality for athletes. How do we develop power? Variable Resistance Training (VRT).
Shift from Block to Vertical Integration for In-Season Program Design
Ever find that stress on one adaptation will have too many drawbacks on all the other adaptations you want your athletes to maintain?
12-Week Omni-Contraction Program for Powerlifters
Use the omni-contraction method and the different contractions (concentric, eccentric, and isometric) to improve your powerlifting total.
Solving the Conditioning Paradox
Bigger players often suffer from a lack of condition—they need size to execute their skill set yet run the risk of overuse-related injuries.
5 Basic Training Principles
Learning from Louie Simmons, Ed Coan, Stan Efferding, Stuart McGill, and more, this is my training philosophy to guide my programming.