A good article on the importance of recovery. As I tell my students, your "homework" is to eat good and get enough sleep. The best program and all the hard work in the world cannot out train poor recovery habits.

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Rest an...

Dynamic Stretching is best

Flexibility

Flexibility is the ability of joints to move through their full range of motion. Flexibility, like strength, provides protection against joint injury and increases performance. There are several methods of increasing flexibility. Th...

Here is lifting the Trump way.

Load a bar with bumper plates, made for doing Cleans and Snatches, so that the bar looks really loaded.

Do a Deadlift completely devoid of technique with a weight that would be an impressive Clean.

Then celebrate and post it for the world to...

 As kids learn new movements their brains' capacity increases

More evidence that the brain and the body are one piece. They improve together.

BY SARAH E. MESSIAH PH.D. MPH

UHealthSystem.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017 4:32 PM

When children and adolescents participate in the recommend...

 Power: developed in the weight room, displayed in competition

SAMPLE PROGRAMS

3 Day Program

  Day 1                                                      Day 2                                                             Day 3...

 1980 Olympics. We stayed home, not by choice of the athletes. Winners train whenever they can.

I have been beginning my  workouts at 5:00 am for nearly 40 years. The article below which I saw on the STACK site pretty well sums up my experience. As a student at BYU in 1...

 Orrin Whaley MVHS class of 2011, State record holder

Here are some standards to work for:

High School Standards

BOYS

                        Back Squat           Bench Press            Snatch            Clean and Jerk       Dot Drill           VJ...

Below is a nice article that I found by Michelle Cady. This year I plan to begin my 38th year as a Track and Field coach. I can only concur with the advice that she gives here. It is applicable in life as well as athletics.

Last year, when I was running the New York Cit...