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How to Develop Game-Breaking Speed
There is no substitute for raw speed in field sports. Understanding how, when, and what training modalities are best used for developing this game-breaking quality…
How to Plan the Off-Season in Canadian University Football Part 1: Winter Training
Due to differences in the sport, Canadian football teams can’t blindly copy popular US training programs, especially at the college level. This is the first…
Strength and Conditioning Advice When Training Golfers
There are plenty of misconceptions about golfers as athletes, primarily because so many people view golf as an activity for retirees and business executives. However,…
Plyometric Push-Ups and Progressions for Power Development
There are many ways to load and challenge the push-up movement, from bodyweight push-ups to loaded isometric push-ups. This article will go over several plyometric…
The Reverse Lunge: Building a Foundation for Athletes
Training the lower half of the body usually focuses on the big movements like squats and deadlifts, but each leg plays an important, and separate,…
The Art of Recovery
For an athlete to regularly perform quality training sessions or to peak for competition, the progression of training stimuli must…
Weight Training for Jumpers
“Special exercises” bridge the gap between traditional exercises and event-specific technical training. Simplifaster talked to eight leading jumps coaches about…
Bar Velocity Waving Periodization
Bar velocity can be used to dictate loads within a wave and to foster an athlete’s self-competition. Velocity offers precision…
Chronic Hamstring Problems in Sprinters: Management and Recovery
When discussing hamstring injuries, attention is often focused on the management and rehabilitation of acute injuries such as grade one…
The 110 High Hurdles: Four Crucial Drills
The 110 high hurdles is unlike any other sprint in track and field. While running full speed, you must clear…
Concurrent Training: Implications for Freestyle Wrestling Performance – Striving for Optimal Training Practice
Wrestling demands all qualities of fitness: maximal strength, aerobic endurance, anaerobic power and anaerobic capacity. To be effective, wrestling techniques…
Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) the Depth Jump for Speed and Power Performance
Depth jumping may be the best single method of advancing overall power and jump height. It may also be the…