Let's boil down program design for the tactical athlete into five main categories: peak sustainability, stress management, [click for more].

This piece of the puzzle is what sets tactical strength and conditioning apart from its athletic counterparts.

Do you hit a wall by the time you get to accessories? What if you split your sessions in two and hit accessories after rest and more food?

Are you over 35, a busy professional, love to train, and hate to feel like shit? Perfect! This training template is for you!

The U.S. soldier is an athlete that requires strong muscles, bones, and connective tissue to prevent injury.

The key to the program is to never accommodate to movements and exercises. Change some aspects of your training every time you train.

You are still completing the same amount of reps as you would with a 5x10 program, but the overall tonnage is increased.

The conjugate method runs like a well-oiled machine for the tactile athlete who needs to fulfill a wide-range of on-the-job tasks.

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.

Unless you're here to make friends, your workout should last no longer than sixty minutes. Strategize for strength and size gains!

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.

There are more components to a lifting schedule than heavy training. How about training for speed?

New research on concurrent training gives us more insight into how to set up our programming considering nutrition, blood flow restriction, and VO2 max.

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.

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.

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).

Program these five key areas to improve your clients' results and keep them injury-free while staying motivated to train.

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 beat Dallas 2-0 in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup last night—a victorious end to a tumultuous storm of a season.

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.

If you watch games, particularly college football games in the 80s, everyone looked strong. I know they had big pads and all, but so many players just looked the part. They definitely kept strength leakage to a minimum. How?

I believe that the individualization of programming in team sports is the real holy grail of strength and conditioning. The application of the 3x3 programming matrix will ensure that each player will have the best opportunity to improve in the areas of dire need.

Right now, CrossFit faces challenges that no playbook illustrates. Here's how I'm making sense of it all.

What exercises allow you to produce as much output as possible? What exercises and will allow you to target the muscles you want to hit and push things to failure while minimizing the risk of injury?