Exercise Selection Criteria: Building Strength & Muscle
High standards lead to high performance.
The Force-Velocity Curve
It is important to understand how the force-velocity curve behaves with different resistance training methods. Most “speed & agility” programs waste too much time at the wrong end of the curve.
Training Principle #2: Overload & Progressive Overload
Make training plateaus a thing of the past. Learn to better enhance programming variables to assure overload is being achieved and continued progress is being made.
Training Principle #1: Specificity
Specificity is the most important training principle to understand. However, there is a myriad of flashy gimmicks designed to waste your time under the guise of sport specificity. Don’t be fooled.
Corrective Exercise Theory
This one may be a little dense. But, high-quality Corrective Exercise can be the holy grail of rehabilitation and can lay the foundation of subsequent performance improvement.
Stress, Recovery, & Adaptation
The Stress-Recovery-Adaptation cycle can either work for your sport performance goals or against them. Learn the difference.
Reaction Time & Agility Training
Improving reaction times and sport-specific agility is notably complex. Don’t fall into the many common traps. Make certain that your training resources are being invested well.
Balance & Proprioception Training—Debunked
As popular as balance and proprioception “training” is amongst physical therapists, sport coaches, personal trainers, and strength coaches, it remains misconceived, ineffective, and unsupported.
Speed Development
Speed requires a collection of components that must be fine-tuned and developed for improved performance.
Effective Stability Training
Joint health and performance requires both mobility and stability. If stability is to be trained and improved, it is important to understand what stability is and isn’t. Like all things fitness, there are many red herrings.
Injury Risk Theory, Modeling, & Intervention
Injury risk management is supremely important for virtually all athletes and sports. Stay healthy and keep competing.
Recovery & Adaptation
Optimize your training effects. Understand what real recovery is and maybe more importantly, what it isn’t.
Effective Mobility Training
Most strategies aimed to improve mobility are ineffective. Instead, use strength training techniques to improve mobility.
Athlete Development & Sport Performance: A Dualistic Approach
Athletes need year-round Strength & Conditioning.