Alternative methods to Olympic lifting to produce maximum power. It is well known within strength and conditioning that Olympic lifting is an effective way to improve muscular power but for most athletes starting out, performing a snatch or clean and jerk can be completely useless. Olympic...
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3 Essential Hip Strengthening Exercises For Stability and Power. The hip is one extremely mobile and powerful junction for movement and stability. However, at times we can become complacent with our training programmes and movements only focussing on what we are good at or enjoy. On...
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Hamstring Exercises for Speed Improvement and Injury Prevention The hamstrings are the muscles at the back of your leg that make up 3/7ths of your thigh. They flex the knee, act as a secondary muscle to extend the hip and stabilize the knee. Primarily, they work...
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Do These Stability Exercises to Increase Your Strength And Power. Stability in both gym and field-based movements is an essential component as having full control over the muscles and how they move makes exercises or movements much more efficient. Muscles that perform movements should contract in...
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Perform at a high intensity and in a non-fatigued state with Peak Phase Training. Peaking is the final part of training an athlete will do before a competition or the start of the season. This is completed to ensure the athlete is performing at a high...
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Single leg strength training variations for strength and power. Bilateral movements, 2 legged, are important in training to increase maximal force production but we need to ensure we are performing single leg strength training movements so that we can transfer this maximal force into maximal running...
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RAMP protocol for athletes. Irrespective of what kind of activity you are going to carry out, warming up before training is crucial to avoid injury but also to improve your performance during that session. Warming up increases your body temperature and blood flow circulating more oxygen...
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Essential plyometric training for speed and agility. Agility is defined as the ability to change direction and speed in response to a stimulus. In this article, we will talk about plyometric training to improve agility. This has two components: The ability to react and read a situation. ...
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Complex and contrast training for explosive power. Power amongst athletes is an essential component whether it is getting to the ball first in football, generating more ball speed on a serve in tennis or throwing a shot put as far as possible. In every sport, power...
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Contrast training to supercharge sports performance. Contrast training is used when a high load exercise is followed by a low load exercise straight away in the same set. This can either be the same exercise or 2 exercises which, are very similar in movement pattern and...
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