Gray Cook: Coddled Conditioning
The word coddle is not often used with the word conditioning, but sometimes we have to go back to our dictionary and think about our everyday words. Con...
Lee Burton: Active Straight Leg Raise — Corrective or Conditioning?
Beyond a screen, is the Active Straight Leg Raise a corrective, a workout or conditioning exercise? Lee Burton explains how it depends on what you’re try...
Chris Holder: Conditioning for Competition—More Than Just Running
Believe me when I tell you that it’s taken nearly two decades of coaching for me to come to terms with the notion that conditioning means more than just ...
Chris Holder: Strength and Conditioning Coaches, Are We Lifting the Athleticism Out of Our Athletes?
That title is not a rhetorical question. Are we lifting the athleticism out of our athletes? It’s something that has been on my mind for a long time. Fr...
Mike Boyle on Conditioning
Misunderstanding Aerobic Training by Mike Boyle “Successful endurance training involves the manipulation of training intensity, duration, and frequen...
Guy Massi: Strength and Conditioning Coaches – Believe in Your Abilities and Work around Reality
In the Strength and Conditioning industry, we are increasingly encountering new challenges to our abilities to effectively program and develop our clients ...
Strength & Conditioning
Before We Go If you’re looking for tested ideas to transform your training, Dan John’s new book is for you. Before We Go is a collection of some...
Joel Jamieson: How to Write a World-Class Conditioning Program in 15 Minutes or Less
Joel Jamieson offers great tips for writing successful conditioning programs and introduces his BioForce Certified Conditioning Coach course (special off...
Chris Holder: An Argument for Early Specialization in Sports
I might be the only person on the planet who thinks this way, and I’m okay with it. If you are at all involved in athletics, on any level, the topic of s...
Mike Prevost: Ruck Training Programs – PART 2
In Part One of this series on ruck training, I covered the research pertinent to real-world rucking and the efficacy of different training modalities. Par...
Mike Prevost: Ruck Training Programs – PART 1
There's quite a bit of published research on appropriate training for load-bearing marches, also known as rucking. This article will serve to summarize an...