Breathing for Lifting
Perhaps one of the most overlooked aspects of improving maximal strength or the ability to move significant loads is an optimal breathing technique. It may seem insignificant compared to other [...]
How To Effectively Motivate Your Athletes
Motivation is anything but static, continuously coming and going. It is easy to obtain when things are going your way and ever so absent when things are not. As a [...]
Is Acute: Chronic Workload Ratio (ACWR) Effective?
Training load and athletic injuries have long been synonymous, thus the number of studies aiming to quantify their precise relation has spiked in recent decades. One of the most popular [...]
How To Prevent Overtraining In Youth Athletes
The term, "Overtraining" frequently gets thrown around by parents, athletes, and coaches. Some individuals have a general understanding of what constitutes overtraining syndrome or what it may even look like, [...]
Sports Scientist: Who Are They and What Do They Do?
“Sport Science” has traditionally been a catch-all term often used for anybody or anything that has to do with competitive sports and enhancing athletic ability. While this isn’t 100% incorrect, [...]
Hang Clean, Hang Power Clean, Power Clean, and Clean: What’s the Difference?
Perhaps you've heard of or seen some derivate of the "clean" weightlifting movement where one powerfully yanks a loaded bar from a static position and catches it on the shelf [...]