Move Faster with Your Abdominal Wall
Functional running starts with solid breathing and bracing. Learn how to breathe and brace during exercise, and watch how much smoother movement feels.
3-Day-a-Week Full Body Program for Team Sports
The three-day-a-week full body program is the most productive in team sports preparation. Here's what we're doing for 2023!
Programming Different Physical Qualities
I like to program from a metabolic, strength, or power focus. The three-day-a-week program allows more stimulation for each major area.
How to Smash Track PRs with Timed Squats
We adopted the timed squat method from Louie Simmons. Let's just say we had the most regional qualifiers in school history.
How to Determine if Your Athletes Should Train Before a Game
Training the morning of a game or competition may seem strange to many, but it's a hidden gem for increasing athletic performance.
Why We Should Cancel the Anti-Back Squat Culture
Some coaches are jumping on the bandwagon of not back squatting their athletes (for various reasons). Ummm...what?
Youth Soccer Conditioning Program
We've pushed our kids into an ultra-competitive environment where student-athletes no longer have a true off-season. Here's what I propose.
Don't Touch the Bar
The art of bro lifting has infiltrated the ranks of strength coaching like never before. What in the world are we teaching these kids?
The Effects of Resisted Sprinting Methods on Sprint Speed
Numerous studies have been conducted to determine the effects of resisted sprinting methods on sprint speed. Here they are.
B is for Bend
I refuse to be the old crusty guy in the corner complaining, BUT come on now. Why aren't your kids bending? Long is strong.
Conjugate for the High School Basketball Player
Kalil Sherrod is a strength coach at The Rack Athletic Performance Center. He hosts The Get Clean Podcast, helping young strength coaches and parents expand their knowledge. He is a former Division 2 and semi-pro basketball player. Kalil is certified through Westside Barbell and Byrd Sports Performance.
#110 - BONUS: Jim Wendler's Strength Training for High School Football Players
Jim Wendler's seminar Strength Training High School Football Players is compiled for you to implement as a coach or an athlete.
#109 - BONUS: Best Way to Train Supplemental & Accessory Movements
Dave Tate's LTT8 (Learn to Train Seminar) lecture on how to best train supplemental and accessory movements for the highest outcome.
#107 - Dr. Stuart McGill: Training with Low Back Pain
Dr. Stuart McGill talks about lower back pain, how personality impacts recovery, and understanding how to ACTUALLY train your core.
#103 - 3 Steps to Get Stronger NOW!
If you've plateaued this training season, let Sam be your guide and deliver 3 steps to help you get stronger now.
#102 - Brian Carroll: Hating to Train and the Secret to Deadlifting
#102 - Brian Carroll: Hating to Train and the Secret to Deadlifting
#101 - Speed Training, Training Volume, and the Crack House
You may be wondering how speed training, training volume, and crack houses all come up in one episode. Listen to find out.
#99 - Training Talk with ATWR Powerlifter Naomi Sheppard
Sam Brown and Naomi Sheppard talk training and the Ghost Clash, where Naomi competed recently and finished as a top lifter.
#97 - Exercise Selection Checklist with Sam Brown
Sam Brown takes over this episode to talk about exercise selection and share his exercise selection checklist.
#96 - Training Talk on HIT Training with Sam Brown
Sam Brown talks about HIT Training and how you can use it in your training to better yourself, or your athletes.
The Lost Manual for Throwing
The arm is just another part of the body that can be trained like the legs or the biceps if you know how to do it correctly.
The Eternal Triangle of Sports Weight Training
What is the eternal triangle shape of sports weight training? Considering speed, strength, and size, is it a scalene, isosceles, or equilateral?
INTERVIEW: University of Wisconsin's Throwing Coach Dave Astrauskas
Coach Dave breaks down his macrocycle, mesocyclone, and microcycle so you can better understand how to train a thrower.
#82 - Commercial Gym Conjugate and Training Principles
Take a deep dive into how you can work conjugate into your training if you are restricted by what your commercial gym offers.