Talking About Max Strength and Youth Athletic Development
What is strength? Who knows? We talk Charlie Francis, gen pop, and of course — Batman. And we have a liiiiittle detour on youth athletic development. Make sure to listen…
Deadlift vs. Squat
Are you giving your athlete the wrong exercise? Do you know what changes you get from a deadlift? How about a squat? These exercises are NOT just for pushing up…
The Biggest Flaws of Collegiate Athletes and Training for Soccer, Baseball, or Basketball
Get the notes from this Q&A session at the bottom of this post. Boy this was a fun one. Here’s everything you’ll get in this action-packed hour of Q&A: What…
Off-Season Programming For Pitchers
It’s a terrific time of year to talk about programming for pitchers! With off-season starting and fall ball being wrapped up around the end of October, it’s time to get…
4 Strategies to Improve Power
This presentation is not “How to DO” — It’s “How to THINK” Big picture to small picture, what are your principles? Here’s my basic flow of training thought: Principles =>…
How to Program Bands and Chains for Your Athletes
Popularized decades ago by Westside Barbell, accommodating resistance has been used effectively in the weight room for years. But those guys are powerlifters. How does this pertain to the normal…
General Population Powerlifting Client Case Study
Our powerlifting meets are always a great time. They’re low stress and a great way to give my clients something to set their sights on. We’ll discuss the health-performance continuum,…
Chronic Back Pain and Cardiac Arrhythmia Case Study
As coaches we’ve all thought about the ideal client before. For me, the ideal client is someone I can make quick changes with in our movement assessment, teach them big…
Classifying Your Athlete
There are an infinite number of variables that go into training an athlete. Filtering out what your athlete is lacking is the key to developing results that transfer over to…
Become a Better Coach by Evaluating Your Sessions
There’s a lot more to coaching than simply showing up for the session. In this video, I discuss how I’m working to “bookend” my training sessions with a little reflection…
Programming for an Entry-Level Fat Loss Client
While we are absolutely selling fitness and performance to our clients, we can’t forget that we are always selling confidence. That is especially important when you have a client, like…
How Much Do You Really Need?
I recently had one of our longer-term clients come in for a training session with me. She’s been MIA for a couple months and looking to get back after it….
Multi-Directional Speed
This month begins a series on speed, starting with the components of speed programming. This presentation lays out the model I use to navigate my way through speed programming to…
Mistakes I’ve Made
Editor’s note: this video dovetails nicely with a recent video from Brandon called Acute Responses to Exercise. I’ve made more than my share of mistakes over the years, especially when…