High school did a terrible job of preparing you for the real world. The only way you will make it is by trial by fire and by implementing the following habits immediately.

This fourth article helps set us up to be able to put together our macrocycles, mesocycles, and microcycles.

In the first article of this series we covered the basic principles of programming and periodization. Now let’s discuss strategies to manipulate volume and intensity, and start examining the training units used to structure training.

The Olympic lifts will develop strength, speed, and power, but this is dependent on a few things you must do for your athletes.

For any exercise, you need to know the proper progressions and regressions. Here is a simple squat progression you can implement with your athletes today.