You must be in control or have autonomy, to set goals, move through intrinsic and extrinsic motivators, and grittily, hardily, toughly keep on track — especially if your choice is to be or continue being a successful high-performance athlete.

Why not do speed work with the movements that your athletes will see in their sport?

I decided to finish the series with what I consider to be the remaining badly misused concepts. The previous one was discipline, and now, the worst of all: mental toughness.

Are you a gritty athlete?

I’ve competed at nine different national championships across four different weight classes and three different divisions, including both amateur and pro — but I've never won. Until now.

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.

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.

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.

My first trip to Scotland coincided with my first Highland games experience. Here's how my day went.

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.

Owner Bryan May and coach John Severson are sharing their knowledge and expertise with the people of Milton, Florida and the surrounding area.

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.

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.