I have a couple things that might be of benefit for professional development for some of our members.SOLD OUT Dynamic Warmup Considerations for Speed-Power Athletes DVD for only $14.95My DVD publisher misprinted several of one of my DVDs such that the DVD has the content of Dynamic Warmup Considerations for Speed-Power Athletes but the label of Maximal Velocity Sprint Mechanics is on the cover. Th [...]

Over the course of my career I have used various forms of assessment to determine the athletes readiness to train and compete. Sometimes they looked more like something you would see in physical therapy clinic and other times it was just pure end range jumping, throwing and running tests. I kept searching for an assessment tool that would give then information I was looking for. A few years ago s [...]

If you're using the olympic lifts in your program which variation(s) do you choose and why? I'm not going to get into different initiations (floor, box, hip, hang, static, dynamic, complex, etc..), but will focus on the quality and the carry over of the snatch and the clean. Often I see athletes with PRs and work weights in the power clean that are almost double what they work with if they do [...]

My biggest issue with the corrective exercise stuff, as all the bright folks who responded to the post also stated, is that any movement/exercise can be corrective. I think too many of the "experts" have been spewing too much pseudo rehabilitation stuff and now everyone is over-thinking/over-correcting symptoms and playing the role of therapist. I thought exercise in general was theraputic and p [...]

Perform these workouts five days apart. On your first sprint session, work your way up to four 100-meter sprints at 80% max-speed. On your second sprint session, work your way up to two 100-meter sprints at 90% max-speed. On your third sprinting session, work your way up to one 100-meter sprint at 100% max-speed. Have a buddy bring a stop-watch and see if you can set a personal record- Brett Contr [...]

Is the "Boylegarian" leg exercise the new front squat? We are back full circle with spinal loading with a split squat but that is another argument. Now I have nothing against Mike Boyle advocating single leg biased exercises but the math is not adding up. The RFESS (rear foot elevated split squat) is not a single leg exercise but more like a 1.5 leg exercise. I would bet that none of his freshma [...]

One leg is better than two? Noted author Frans Bosch in his presentation at the USATF III school in Chicago left many of us wondering why lift at all if conventional training is so poor for sprinting. We do know that various research papers will agree and disagree with the squat and clean but we know that some combination of training methods will be the answer. Frans believes that lifting with one [...]

Frans Bosch has introduced some exercises with some outlandish claims of transfer. Like I mentioned before, his work is wonderful in theory, but I simply don't agree with his approach to coaching, especially in the weight room and in strength development. His exercises are gross mongrel of weights and movements that seem to only add more complexity to exercises that need less complexity. Single l [...]

Why is finding actual video of speed guys lifting good numbers like finding bigfoot? Surely if people can post pictures and videos of themselves drunk, they can post a photo or video squatting 400+. I have been keeping my eyes open on this for years with no result. All I see is Mike Conley 1/8 squatting 405, Staffan Strand squatting 185, still photos of Kajsa with a bar on her shoulders that lo [...]

Richard MacLeish wrote me the following reply to yesterday’s post (his question are in blockquote).How do you know what exercises are going to help a specific function?Learn the demands of the sport and the position, know the athlete. I understand the rational, but I also see that the reason the soccer coach went to the strength coach was because he lacked the knowledge to help his players get s [...]