Sports Performance

Neuromuscular training can be implemented early in the youth physical development process, but age-appropriate speed and strength training must account for the process of growth and maturation, motor learning, and physical development.

When athletes are pushed too far for too long, they become ill, injured, or simply lose interest in training and their sport. The proper approach to athlete development will solve this.

Don't get sidetracked by paying attention to insignificant details and meaningless methods. Learn to distinguish between what matters and what doesn't.

You may never do this lift in competition, but training the sumo deadlift can add tons of strength to your conventional deadlift, carrying events, and overhead strength while relieving stress on your back.

When I began strongman I was terrible at the yoke, even though it was in almost every competition I had competed in. With it being so common, I had no choice but to improve. Here's what I learned along the way.

This article provides a list of some of the various and sundry factors that help contribute to winning a strongman or strongwoman pro card.

Whether you're using a log or a weightlifting bar, you need to follow these rules to make sure you aren't wasting the strongest half of your body.

In this article are evidence-based recommendations for introducing youth athletes to the snatch, the clean and jerk, and their derivatives.

Specificity tells us we become best at the things we do most often, but accommodation tells us that we become stale from the things we do most often. What's the answer?

Last summer I was able to perform some informal research on 10 Division II football athletes examining how to reverse imbalances found in force-velocity profiling using velocity based training with a Tendo Unit and accommodating resistance.

A new perspective on the squat that will change the sports performance industry.

Despite the numerous similarities between full lifts, pulls, and extensions, the kinematic profile associated with different variations of Olympic-style weightlifting exercises allows for a more rational, sport-by-sport selection of movements based on specificity.