Big Is a Byproduct of Strong
A proper weight room strategy provides adequate attention to the development of strength and size — two qualities necessary for your team's improvement.
Dynamic Effort Day for Athletes
Your athletes are not powerlifters. Programming them as if they are will not lead to stronger, faster competitive performance.
Training Women: Deadlift Considerations
Before making the assumption that all women have wide hips and should therefore squat wide and deadlift sumo, consider these other factors that will inform good technique.
Group Training: Use Your Constraints for Program Construction
The first thing that you need to do is decide on what your limiting factors are: time, equipment, physical abilities, skill, and audience.
On-Court Results with APRE Cluster Method
We've utilized Mann's method with great results as written and with a few tweaks — breaking up the fourth set is just what our basketball players needed to bust through their strength plateau.
Training Beginners: A Different Approach
When new athletes come into your program you don't know their abilities, training history, or technical proficiency. This is a crucial part of your program: preparing your athletes for their sport.
Maximum Effort Training for the Front Seven
Using this three-step approach, strengthen, motivate and challenge a team to excel in the sport of football.
'It Looked Good in Theory'
Trends dominate the personal training industry. Rely on self-education to determine the difference between what sounds good and what IS good.
Build a Bigger Bench: The Female Edition
The bench press is typically the weakest lift for women. It's no mystery why—they require a targeted approach.
Assessment Methods to Determine Ideal Speed Development Protocols
“I feel a need, a need for speed,” as the famous quote from Top Gun goes. The old coaching question “how can I make my team faster,” which is answered...
Greasing the Groove by Training the Coach
The emphasis is always on the athletes, but keep in mind, in order to be a productive leader, you must go through what you're asking others to do.
The Rationale Behind Specialty Bars, Grips, and Angles
With a variety of unique, specialized equipment, you can program to address a multitude of player strengths and weaknesses.
WATCH: Pre-Workout Circuits to Optimize Training Time and Maximize Performance
Training a high number of athletes in a limited number of time poses unique problems for timing and extensive warm-ups. Use these quick and efficient protocols to streamline team workouts.
Best Program Alterations To Make When Your Training Hits a Roadblock
You inevitably need to change up what you’re doing after stalled progress. What do you change? How do you go about deciding what to keep and what to remove?
GPS Tracking in the Real World: My Experiences with American Collegiate Football
GPS tracking for sport's performance may seem overwhelming at first, but I have found with the right data and tracking methods, proper technology will yield improved performance.
What Type of Deload Will Help You Recover Best?
Deloads are extremely useful for making continual progress from harsh training. When the time comes for you to back off the weights, make sure you do it the right way.
Alternatives to Traditional Size and Fitness Programming
The best program for muscle hypertrophy and aerobic capacity extends the training perspective to a year-long pursuit of improved fitness.
23 Loading Methods for Effective Set and Rep Schemes
These creative methods will reignite your boring routine. They work as long as you do.
Pre Raw Meet Cycle: going from equipped to raw lifting
Are you a geared lifter looking to enter your first raw meet? Read this...
3 Commercial Gym Conditioning Workouts You Can Do in 15 Minutes or Less
No time but need to shed some fat? These quick sessions will leave you in a puddle of sweat.
Revisiting 14-Day Microcycles in Powerlifting
These alternate setups for non-traditional microcycles in a powerlifting program have allowed my clients and I to target the specific needs of individual athletes.
The Firefit Combat Challenge: The Toughest Two Minutes in Sports
I adjusted my powerlifting and kettlebell training to adapt to the needs of this highly-intensive challenge.
Non-Traditional Microcycles in a Powerlifting Program
This basic template gives you five, 14-day microcycles to revamp that old-school program and give you new-age gains.
Weight Training for Runners
Follow these weightlifting programs to increase your speed and endurance.
























