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Strength Training Programs: Is Cross-Training Necessary?
As I noted earlier in the week, I’m two weeks in to the new Lean Hybrid Muscle program and really enjoying it. It’s a pretty significant change of pace from what I might call my normal programming that’s geared toward predominantly increasing strength and overall athleticism – but it’s working extremely well. As the saying [...]
How I’m Breaking Out of My Training Rut: Lean Hybrid Muscle
The baseball off-season is a lot of fun for me, but it also means crazy long hours, loads of competing demands, and quite a bit of stress. To take it a step further, though, most of my long hours are spent on my feet on the floor at Cressey Performance, which isn’t exactly conducive to [...]
Stuff You Should Read: 1/23/2011
It’s been a while since I gave you a list of recommended reading, but that changes today!
Rotten Resolutions – I usually bring this article to light right at the beginning of January each year, but forgot in light of the busy last few weeks. Check it out. It might make you see your strength and [...]
High Performance Training without the Equipment: 5 Pushup Variations
I’ve written several times in the past about how it’s important to not only balance your upper body pushing and pulling exercises, but also make sure that you have a similar volume of open- and closed-chain exercises in the pushing component. In other words, you need to have plenty of pushup variations to “cancel out” [...]
ACL Grafts: Which is Best? A Strength Coach’s Perspective
A few weeks ago, I came across this recent study of different ACL grafts. It found that there was no difference in follow-up success rates at two-year mark between hamstrings and patellar tendon grafts. The patellar tendon group did, however, exhibit more anterior knee pain – which isn’t a surprise because it’s not uncommon to [...]
