Creating the Perfect Warm-Up
We value warming up before lifting or any exercise, but we don’t really think much about how to structure a warm-up. This article will help solve just that with a comprehensive review of the literature on approaches to warming up.
Periodize Your Training
Improving in the sport of powerlifting is simple if you know how to approach it. I prefer using a series of three macrocyles: hypertrophy and volume, general strength, and competition preparation and peaking.
A Smarter Approach to Enhancing Athletic Performance
When I started to apply this 8-phase setup with my high school and college athletes, not only did their technique, mobility, and flexibility improve, but they also looked and felt stronger.
Training for Police Officers: The Necessities Every Cop Needs in their P...
For most people who step into a gym, your training isn’t a matter of life and death. For police officers, it is.
Mobility Versus Flexibility
Is mobility even a real thing, or a substitution for people that don’t actually train, compete, or play in an actual defined activity?
DOMS: What Do We Know About Muscle Soreness?
Using scientific study as its foundation, this article has two main goals: better explain the causes of delayed onset muscle soreness and disprove three common misconceptions.
Digging Deeper: Stretching
Stretching. This little ten-letter word has the capability to cause chaos.
Death of Static Stretching?
Developing an active and full range of motion (ROM) in our relationships between muscles and joints is vastly important for optimum performance.
Does Stretching Make You Flexible?
This goes out to all the mobility experts, strength coaches and yoga instructors…
Top 10 Speed Training Myths Revealed
Every day someone asks me a question about training speed. So here are those questions heard most frequently as well as the answers to them.