WATCH: Mastering Leg Drive in the Push Press
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.
Olympic-Style Weightlifting Exercises for Youth Athletes
In this article are evidence-based recommendations for introducing youth athletes to the snatch, the clean and jerk, and their derivatives.
Accommodation vs. Specificity: Battle of the Training Concepts
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?
The Force-Velocity Profile: Reversing Imbalances Using the Dynamic Effort Method and Band Tension in Sport Athletes
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.
The Squat and Athletic Development — How We've All Been F*cking It Up
A new perspective on the squat that will change the sports performance industry.
The Validity of Olympic-Style Weightlifting Exercises for Athletes
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.
WATCH: Q&A with Coach Kav — The Most Common Weaknesses of Aspiring NFL Players
When young athletes who plan to go into an NFL camp or enter the draft visit Coach Kav, there are two main issues he almost always encounters.
Finding Strength with Derek Poundstone
I had no idea how prolific Derek Poundstone was and would become in the strongman world. Now that he has stepped out of the spotlight, he sat down with me to talk about the sport of strongman and his life.
The 74th Aberlour Strathspey Highland Games
My first trip to Scotland coincided with my first Highland games experience. Here's how my day went.
Bigger Is Not Always Stronger: Fallacies of Muscle Hypertrophy for Strength Athletes
I am going to establish an argument against a particular misconception: the fallacy that working out to make your 'muscles bigger' will make you stronger, faster, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
Finding Strength: The Bar Strength and Conditioning
Owner Bryan May and coach John Severson are sharing their knowledge and expertise with the people of Milton, Florida and the surrounding area.
The New Football Conditioning Test
When I first arrived at Princeton University, our preseason conditioning test consisted of repeat 40-yard sprints. Since then, we've experimented and implemented a new protocol.
Finding Strength: Missing Link Crossfit
Casey Hagstrom and Allen Bose have taken the culture they developed in the Marines and brought it to the civilian side to help create some amazing athletes in multiple sports.
Movement Economy in Sports
I aim to clarify this concept and operationally define movement economy as it relates to sporting performance through a detailed and layered description for athletes to use in both training and competition.
The Squat and Athletic Development: How We Have All Been F*cking It Up — Redefining the Squat
This subject has caused heated debates among close friends, but in the end, the undeniable logic of the facts wins out. It's time to redefine squatting by looking at ankle flexion, stance, and knee flexion.
Dallas Europa Strongman Challenge: I Won My Pro Card
I’m so proud to finally have achieved my original goal in strongman and to continue showing my kids that hard work and time in the saddle pays off.
Finding Strength: Tyson's Playground
Ken Stewart's facility is loaded with almost an entire football field of turf, a room dedicated to weightlifting, strongman implements, and tons of other equipment needed to make the best possible athlete.
The Aerobic System for Every Athlete
Every athlete needs to develop an aerobic base somewhere within their training program in order to be in control of their nervous system and to promote better recovery. Here are the benefits of doing so.
All Together Now — The Psychologist
Today we will look into sports psychology. While the coach and the nutritionist are pushed into multi and interdisciplinarity even when there is not a proper structure for it, the same doesn’t happen with the sports psychologist.
Finding Strength: Primal Strength
In Charlottesville, Virginia, behind two garage doors, is a down and dirty, no-bullshit training facility, and a group of athletes ready to come in and do work.
Your Kid Is Not a Pro Athlete
Parents often don't realize that some of the popular programs out there look cool but are the equivalent of going from first grade to 12th grade in a week. The best program is the one your athlete is ready for.
WATCH: The Biggest Mistakes of the Strongman Axle Clean and Press
In weightlifting, the bar has the power and your body will move around it. In strongman, your body has the power and the bar will move around it.
All Together Now — The Coach, This Polyglot
Not many institutional environments promote interdisciplinary collaboration in exercise and sports performance. Starting from the ground up, how can we change this?
All Together Now — Meet the Disciplines and Our Hosts
In this series, we will explore the challenges of interdisciplinarity in Sports Performance. I have chosen six people to help us on this journey, each one representing one discipline or profession.