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 [...]

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 [...]

No pain, no gain was a very prevalent attitude when I began coaching in the late Sixties, surprisingly it continues to persist today in certain circles. I have never been able to figure out the appeal of this approach. Proper training in the weight room or on the field demands that the athlete be pushed to test their limits at various times in training. Some workouts are very difficult and other w [...]

If you are an overhead athlete, a thrower, tennis player, swimmer, volleyball player etc. you need to use strengthening exercises that involve overhead movements. This is another myth that seems to pervade the exercise community and has definitely sprinted in to the athletic development community. You need to pay close attention to how you get overhead. You must get hip to the shoulder. Cheat and [...]

"Strength and conditioning will get you lengths and lengths. Technique will get you inches." Karl Adam, German Rowing Coach. I would add my comment to Coach Adams statement, the two must be developed concurrently, not separately. The more they are combined and blended the higher the level of possible performance. They go together like hand in glove as the old saying goes. If you don't have the [...]

This weekend I had the chance to speak with Coach Loren Seagrave on his thoughts about absolute strength. Loren is a former LSU sprint coach, founder of Velocity Sport Performance and coach of some of the fastest individuals in the world. I've had the privilege of doing at least one speaking engagement with Loren each month for the past couple months and I've been able to pick his brain on topic [...]

I have been pretty hard on what I have called the lost generation of strength coaches. It is time to reveal the method to my madness. I wanted to call them out. Wake them up so to speak, maybe a little tough love. I am not sure they are lost as much as they are misguided. When most of these coaches came of age and into the field of S&C, it was at the time there was a proliferation of information a [...]

This is a follow-up to my post last week with the statements that is it is relatively easy to get strong and it is easy to get slow. There were some good responses that basically mirrored what I am going to say. It is easy to get strong if that is your goal. By strong I mean measurably strong in the traditional sense of weight room strong. A dedicated block of eight to twelve weeks can result in a [...]

Here is some food for thought to spur you thinking:It is relatively easy to get strongIt is very easy to make someone slowerI am interested in your comments, before I post mine. This is how I began my presentation to the Throws group at USA Track & Field Podium Education program [...]

Remedial Education Exercises. Elastic Power and Stiffness. Acute Transmutation. Yes the 60s life was good for Poland as a great interaction between the weightlifting community, athletics, and sports medicine. Now that the rush for blueprints for polish boxes is creating a firestorm, the reality is we need to see what they were doing precisely to deal with the shear amount of lower leg training. I [...]