How Lifters Can Unleash Athletic Power
Today’s guest post comes courtesy of strength coach and writer Eric Bach. Eric’s a coach I respect a lot and someone who’s consistently pumping out quality content. His new resource, The Four Week Power Primer, is on sale starting TODAY. How Lifters Can Unleash Athletic Power What You’ll Learn – Raw Strength isn’t enough. -… Read more
4 Strength Goals For a Beautiful Body
I make no secret my disdain towards the mainstream media (magazines, newscasts, infomercials, pop culture, fads) and how it relays fitness information to women. Wait, what? You mean women can lift weights heavier than 3 lbs???? Most of it – mind you, not all of it – is predicated on the notion that women are… Read more
Do Absolute Strength Athletes Need to Train For Power?
Today’s guest post comes courtesy of TG.com regular, Justin Kompf. This is Justin’s fourth or fifth article on this site, but admittedly it’s been awhile since he’s contributed because he’s gotten all fancy pants and has a job and website and stuff. Today he tackles a “touchy” topic: speed/power training (what it means and how… Read more
The D’Angelo of Strength and Conditioning?
I’m not bashful when it comes to admitting my weaknesses as a coach. I did it before when I wrote a post not long ago explaining why I don’t include the Olympic lifts into my programs, and I’ll do it again today. Ready? Speed and explosive training is not my strong suit. This is not to… Read more