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A Guide to Hip and Knee Dominant Athletes

A Guide to Hip and Knee Dominant Athletes, and Why Not Knowing the Difference is Holding Back Your Progress There […]

Athletes need deer’s muscles, not those of an ox! At least that is what the opponents of Dr. Yuri Verkhoshansky

Virtually every athlete starts doing Olympic lifts for one of two reasons. Reason 1: Because their coach or gym teacher

Vertical jump training programs are a scam. Well, many of them are. Is it because they don’t work? No… it

If, upon threat of death, you had to increase your vertical leap 6” in the next month, how would you

Periodization is a rather ignorant term. Why? Because it is a blanket that is often used to justify using ineffective

Editors Note: Creatine is a ridiculously effective supplement, but ask any female athlete about the possibility of using it for

Interview with Josh Hurlebaus on Sprints: 10-16-2012 I am always excited to pick Josh Hurlebaus’ brain regarding the topic of

Imagine a bench press program where the function of the chest muscles were constantly ignored. Would that program be successful?

Coaches are in a sense, sculptors of the human body. We take an athlete and mold him or her to

Best of Strength and Conditioning in August, 2012: Meta-Analysis of Training Olympic Weightlifters This month of research led me to

I felt that the initial “30 Commandments of Vertical Jump Training” was a fun way to put together a lot