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Sledgehammer Conditioning for Athletes and Weekend Warriors
The tool of demolition workers and superheroes.By Charles Gardner
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EFS Classic: Constructing a Strength and Conditioning Program for College Hockey
When developing the strength and explosiveness program for the University of Pittsburgh men's hockey team, there were several factors I had to take into consideration as a coach. Hopefully my experience thus far will help you in similar situations.By EFS Staff
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How I Train
Anyway, this is what's been working like a charm for me. If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to clarify whatever you need.By The Angry Coach
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Five Ways to Improve ‘On the Field’ Speed
Not only does speed kill, it wins games and wins championships.By Steve Reid
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Are Injuries Due Mainly to Conditioning or Lack of Conditioning?
Teams keep hoping that their players will not get injured.By Dr. Michael Yessis
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Test Yourself: Strength and Conditioning Standards for the Martial Arts
This article is aimed at mixed martial artists and those wishing to make that transition into mixed martial arts (MMA).By Brendan Chaplin
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Why You Need More Power
Power, as it relates to strength and conditioning, is an often misunderstood concept for everyday lifters.By Kasey Esser
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Five Football Conditioning Workouts for Offensive and Defensive Linemen
There are still way too many football teams that base their entire conditioning program around jogging or jogging-related running.By Steven Morris
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TUFFEN Up Your Conditioning
Want to know how to get more out of your athletes in their conditioning sessions and maybe more time in the gym, too?By Brendan Chaplin
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Partner Training: A Different Approach to MMA Strength and Conditioning
What’s going on “upstairs” allows you to utilize your physical skills to the best of your ability.By Doug Balzarini
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Top Six Ways to Increase Your Sprint Speed
If your athlete is running with his arms swinging from side to side, he is suffering from teenage kid syndrome.By Tony Montgomery
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Core Competencies
Carson discusses the two core competencies—breathing and rolling—that he believes are most important when developing athletes in any discipline.By Carson Boddicker
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Strength and Conditioning for Combat Athletes
Mixed martial arts (MMA) is here to stay.By Doug Balzarini
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No Prowler? No Problem!
About two years ago, I developed an unhealthy relationship.By Adam Plagens
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Conditioning—When and How?
Now that football season is coming to an end, many kids are looking to get stronger and faster for next season.By Tony Montgomery
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It’s Not a Race for Last
It was during the conditioning portion of my son’s football practice that I heard one of the greatest motivational lines I’ve heard in my 34 years of playing sports and coaching.By Joe Kenn
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No gym? Solution: Car Pushes and Parking Lot Sprints
I pushed that Galant around like it called my Momma a bad name.By Hannah Johnson
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Six Ways to Use Sandbags in Your Football Strength and Conditioning Program
Here are six ways to easily implement sandbags into your football strength and conditioning program.By Steven Morris
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Explosive Upper Body Training for Football Lineman
“I tell ya. His legs are as strong as an ox, but he throws a punch like a 7-year old girl!”By Steven Morris
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Introduction to Preparing Athletes for the Challenging Sport of Rugby Union
For those not familiar with the sport, rugby union is a professional, widespread sport in Europe and countries in the southern hemisphere (Australia).By Thomas McLaughlin
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The BS of the Strength and Conditioning Field
This article isn’t going to make me any friends, but hopefully it will open the eyes of some people and help them look outside their fields of thought and expand their thinking. During the last seventeen years, I’ve been exposed to several concepts and ideas as they pertain to strength and conditioning, including Olympic lifting, powerlifting, core training, assessment based training, Western periodization, Westside methods, tempo and volume based workout regimens, and others.By Travis Mash
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Three Football Speed Training Myths Busted
Where the hell did we go so wrong when it comes to football speed training? When did it become acceptable to pass off the hard work that entails training for football speed and replace it with fairly easy cone drills and gadgets?By Steven Morris
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So You Wanna Be a Fighter: Part 2
Let’s be very clear—I don’t know shit. Not about constructing the ultimate training paradigm, not about recovery, and certainly not about conditioning. But what I do know is that I love physical training, and I have a great passion for learning about the strength and conditioning field.By Casey S. Rusbridge
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Athletes and Olympic Lifting
The power clean and other Olympic lifts are a staple in strength and conditioning programs for many sports from high school to the pros.By Chad Wesley Smith
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Strength and Conditioning for High School Hockey
I don’t care for the term “sport-specific.” To me, this buzzword is a clever way to market strength and conditioning programs to parents who don’t know any better.By Dave Coffin
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Strongman Training for Rugby
Rugby is a fast-paced game that requires athletes to pass, kick, tackle, and run. All 15 players on the field need to be competent in these very different areas.By Scott Caulfield
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Proper Sprinting Mechanics of the 40
Coaches on various levels are trying to find the latest workouts to improve strength and speed in their athletes.By Dr. Raymond Tucker



















