The Importance Of In-Season Training
Should you train during the season?
How do you maintain strength in-season?
Strength < Power
Why Power Makes A Bigger Impact On An Athlete’s Performance
’Tis the Season to be Consistent
You’re feeling a little out of control. You’re probably eating and drinking more, sleeping less and you feel like all your hard work is getting thrown out the window.
Olympic Lifts vs Loaded Jumps – Part 2
In the previous blog, we went through the basics of Olympic lifts and loaded jumps. We discussed the benefits of each and the impacts on performance, some of these are listed below: ‘Research also goes on to describe a benefit of the Olympic lifts to increase neural adaptation such as the rate of force development, …
Olympic Lifts vs Loaded Jumps – Part I
Over the past few years, there has been a big debate about the use of Olympic lifts compared to loaded jumps in an athlete’s training program. Before diving deep into this debate, it is important, to begin with understanding the difference between the two and the variations of each. Typically, both Olympic lifts and loaded …
An often overlooked quality within baseball training
For the vast majority of team sports, outside of the sport skill element, speed, strength, and power are key physical characteristics that have a direct impact on an athlete’s performance. Typically, as the level of sport increases, so do an athlets ability to generate maximal force and power and accelerate in a straight line and …
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Training Load
Your training load is important whether you are a high-performance athlete, weekend warrior, or enjoy the occasional sport session for health. What is a training load, you may ask? You may have been fed conflicting information on how much is too little or too much training to reduce your risk of injury. “Don’t overtrain yourself …
Difference between optimal training and overtraining
During my time in high school and university weight rooms, I’ve seen and experienced first hand the performance-enhancing benefits of team training sessions. The basketball guys rallying up their teammate before a max vertical jump attempt, rugby players psyching up each other on Bench press testing day and the track team building comradery in the …
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Off-Season Training Part 2
Following on from last month’s blog, Off-Season Training Part 1, where we outlined the basic principles and thought process behind the evolution of off-season training, the progression from general to specific and typical focus points of the general preparation phase. This month we’re diving into more depth about the next phase, the specific preparation phase. …
Off-Season Training Part 1
For many athletes, spring and summer are normally the off-season. It provides athletes of sports like Hockey, Rugby and Basketball, to take some time off, wind down and relax from the challenges of their sports season. While it is important to wind down during this period, it doesn’t mean we spend 3 months sitting in …