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Accent On Female Strength Training
Not too long ago, it seemed as if female strength training was on trial and had to be defended before and after every workout...
Athletic Nutrition Bytes: Fueling the Body for Competition
Athletes are taught that being a part of a winning team requires discipline and attention to detail in the classroom, on and off the field, and in the food choices they put on their plate...
Career Path for the Strength/Conditioning Professional
The strength and conditioning profession has certainly burgeoned over the past 30 years in both supply and demand. Running parallel with this progress has been the heightened interest by many young people in career opportunities in the field...
Chemical Conundrum: Beyond The Mitchell Report
The timeline leading to the release of Senator George Mitchell’s document on the use of performance-enhancing drugs (PED’s) in MLB on December 13, 2007 had a cryptic and inauspicious beginning way back on June 7, 1991...
Exercises, Equipment Modes, and Rep Duration
The training landscape is in a state of continual flux, and the ongoing changes, updates, and emergence of proposed cutting-edge devices and techniques makes for interesting and thought-provoking debates among practitioners...
HARD WORK
With all of the trendy strength training approaches available these days, it becomes easy to lose sight of the single-most important premise of all - hard work...
Hard Work Revisited: Strength and Power Points
There were so many positive responses and follow-up questions to the December, 2006 Powerline (Hard Training: Tough Strength Training Strategies), that I thought it would be a good idea to expound on the rationale for this concept and offer further perspectives...
Learning the Ropes
Many years ago, I learned the value of using thick ropes for developing a crushing grip. It was truly an educational experience highlighted with a great deal of initial discomfort and lingering soreness...
Sliding into a Strong Core
Core training is one of the current strength and conditioning trends that has launched a multitude of diverse applications and filled the pages of equipment catalogues with a wide array of assistive paraphernalia...
Spartan 300 Training
View Ken Mannie's Powerline Online presentation on the Spartan 300 series in 4 parts...
Strength Training's Bottom Lines
Kim Wood, one of the original strength and conditioning coaches in professional sports, has always provided both the young and old in the field with the little gems of professional wisdom worth tucking away in the memory banks...
Spartan Rotation
Coaches are always searching for conditioning drills that fit the specific needs of their sport while concurrently adding enough variety to keep things interesting and challenging.
Strength, Speed, and Conditioning: Q&A 2008
It’s time once again to reach into the mailbag and scan my e-mail inbox for some of the most frequently asked questions I’ve received in the past year or so...
Strike-Up the Band Training The Benefits of Variable Resistance
Strength and conditioning coaches are always searching for ways to improve the equipment they have been blessed (or cursed) with...
Training Days
Perhaps the basic responsibility of the strength coach is to sift through his sources of strength-training information and develop a day-to-day program of the exercises that best fit his athletes...
Training the Injured Athlete
As much as we would like to believe that injuries could be prevented, the fact remains that they are an unavoidable part of all sports. In addition to the physical pain and the impending rehabilitation process, the athlete must deal with the frustration of lost playing time. This emotional distress can not only affect the athlete, but also transcend to family members, the team, and even the coaches...
