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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.