training
Utilizing Prilepin’s Chart
Coaches, use Prilepin's Chart to gain a new perspective while training your beginning athletes. Here's how I've found the chart to be useful.
Time as a Factor in Weight Training
Unless you're here to make friends, your workout should last no longer than sixty minutes. Strategize for strength and size gains!
What Kind of Lifter Are You?
Beware: Lots of programs out there are faulty. If it's not addressing technical skill or CNS adaptation, it's garbage. Here's a DIY to try based on the type of lifter you are.
Speed Work for Strength Gains
There are more components to a lifting schedule than heavy training. How about training for speed?
Improve Endurance and Strength Simultaneously
New research on concurrent training gives us more insight into how to set up our programming considering nutrition, blood flow restriction, and VO2 max.
Integration of Great Ideas into a Manageable Training Program
Westside Barbell, 5/3/1, 5thSet, and Juggernaut Training Systems all play a role in the creation of this program. Let me know how you advance using it.
Applications of ConjugateU for High School O-Linemen
My football players were being held back by strength deficits that are left underdeveloped in most high school programs—development of speed and maximal strength in the weight room. Here's how I filled in the gaps.
Tier System for the Physical Preparation of the Swimmer
How different can programming be for swimmers? Let's take a deeper dive into how the Tier System fits perfectly into portions of the swim event and the number of days we train (no pun intended).
5 Ways to Improve Your Programming
Program these five key areas to improve your clients' results and keep them injury-free while staying motivated to train.
Gym Programming Variation Across a Team
Here are several programs that were used during our last rugby season. Take special notice of the variety that you can achieve but also the range and breadth of programming in a team sport.
Tampa Bay Lightning are Stanley Cup Champs
Tampa Bay beat Dallas 2-0 in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup last night—a victorious end to a tumultuous storm of a season.
The Overall Structure of Conjuphasic
Many mistakes were made over the first one and a half years of this program. I tested and made tweaks using Julia and me as guinea pigs so that my clients (and now you) can benefit from combining conjugate with triphasic.