Posts tagged "designing training programs"
Mike Prevost: Protein Needs and Muscle Hypertrophy
Mike Prevost reports on the latest research to bring you information on dietary protein and muscle hypertrophy - including the different protein needs for ...
Guy Massi: Strength and Conditioning Coaches – Believe in Your Abilities and Work around Reality
Strength and conditioning coaches have enough challenges, but all too often they are issues of time and communication. Guy Massi looks at the complicated life of today’s strength coac...
Glenn Pendlay: Consistency in Olympic Lifting
No lifter is perfect, but consistency is important to Glenn Pendlay: if you're consistent with your mistakes, you can learn . . . and if you're consistent with your good technique, you'...
Dan John: Balance = Work/Rest/Play/Pray
Dan John goes back to second grade to expand on the compass that has helped guide him to find balance in his life. It’s simple and can work for you and your clients: Work, Rest, Pray,...
Patrick Ward: Enhancing the Physiological Buffer Zone
A healthy athlete needs to have a Physiological Buffer Zone; What are you doing to that area between full physical capacity and the point of breakdown, injury or pain? Patrick Ward asks...
Dan John: Assessments for “Everybody Else”
There’s so much out there about how to train elite athletes, but what do you do for “everybody else”? Dan John starts with a few of his simple assessments and covers the basics fo...
Dan John: Old Drills Reborn—Training Programs for “Everybody Else”
Thirty seconds on? I can do that. Thirty seconds off? Definitely. For thirty minutes? Say what? Dan John has some ideas that may convince you to add classic circuit training to your pro...
Joel Jamieson: Building the Performance Model
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that performance is the same for every sport . . . it’s literally a different ball game. The Performance Model is where the athlete, the requireme...
Mike Boyle: Three Lessons I Learned from Coaching Kids
Mike Boyle has the experience to know when to keep training simple. When coaching kids, K.I.S.S. is the rule . . . and even then, there are lessons to learn that will make you a better ...
Alwyn Cosgrove: Basic Movements and Program Design
Are you making program design too complicated? Start with basic movements and see if they make the difference your client wants.
Chris Holder: Qigong for Recovery and Health
Qigong is one of the most layered, ancient and powerful practices used to bring about massive health benefits and recovery efforts. Chris Holder tells us how it’s still relevant today...