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Power and Strength Training!
Welcome to the homepage for Power and Strength Training. This area is designed to get your Strong! It covers olympic lifting, power training, and overall strength training theories and practice.
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Lessons from Olympic Weightlifting
Daniel Martinez
Article and Audio Interview
Since November of 2007 I have been training in the sport of Olympic weightlifting. I hope to communicate some of what I have learned and what the experience has meant to me as an athlete and coach. I think sometimes the role of Olympic weightlifting is over and understated in its contribution and level of importance to athlete development. The benefits and risks coincide with the level of the coach and the athlete, so often the only people who are capable of fully extracting 100% from Olympic weightlifting are Olympic weightlifters and Olympic weightlifting coaches. With that said, it is not necessary to bring out 100% from weightlifting, rather it is important that you bring out 100% of the quality of weightlifting you are hoping to gain for the benefit of your athletes and your program. . . . keep reading
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New Training Techniques
Jeffrey M. McBride, PhD
Some great research brought to our attention by Bob Alejo. New Training Techniques Jeffrey M. McBride, PhD Associate Profe . . . keep reading
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Multidirectional Movement Training - Part I
Anthony Lomando
We all know that soccer is random and chaotic in nature and a high degree of agility, quickness and movement skill is necessary for meeting the physical demands of the game. A study of player movements during Premiership Games found that dependant upon position, between 20-30 percent of purposeful movements performed during a match are multidirectional movements. How efficient and effective our soccer players move in all directions and transition between movements through acceleration and deceleration qualities, determines their level of agility . . . keep reading
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Undulating Periodization: Variable Rep Training -- Part Two
Alwyn Cosgrove
The body adapts to any given workout in as little as four to six exposures. But get this -- it adapts to the rep range the fastest and the choice of exercise the slowest. So we can continue to make progress on several exercises as long as we change the rep ranges regularly.
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TIP OF THE WEEK
Rich Wenner
This week's tip comes from Rich Wenner, Associate Head Sports Performance Coach at Arizona State University. . . . keep reading
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Starting a High School Strength Program
Michael Boyle
If you get one thing out of this article remember this quote (author unknown). “ A bad program done well is better than a good program done poorly”. Keep it simple, and adhere strictly to the following guidelines . . . keep reading
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Plyometric Training
Michael Boyle
Numerous articles have been written about plyometric training for athletes. Very few have detailed progressive programs that take into account the need for a system of training that can be applied to a broad range of athletes. Although the works of Chu, Radcliffe and Gambetta were outstanding at the time of their writing, very little has been written in the last ten years that connects our current knowledge of functional training with how to design and implement a system of plyometric exercises. In order to fully understand plyometrics, we must look at basics like terminology, volume and frequency. . . . keep reading
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