Strength Training Programs: 10 Factors to Determine Which is Best for Your Athletes

With access to the internet, there are a lot of programs out there that can seem overwhelming to choose from when deciding what’s best for your athletes. There’s Conjugate training, Triphasic training, APRE training, Velocity-based Training (VBT), 5/3/1, 1×20, undulated periodization, linear periodization, block periodization, Texas Method, and even your classic Bro-Splits/body part splits. PointContinue reading “Strength Training Programs: 10 Factors to Determine Which is Best for Your Athletes”

Workouts Too Easy or Too Hard? Relative Intensity Calculator is For You!

Have you been training and found your workouts to be too easy or too hard? Are you using percentages of your 1-rep max (1RM) to guide your training, but feel like you’re missing the mark? A relative intensity calculator may be a good option for you! A relative intensity calculator gives you an idea ofContinue reading “Workouts Too Easy or Too Hard? Relative Intensity Calculator is For You!”

My Periodization Strategy for Athletes Part III: The Strength Block

Photo by Alora Griffiths on Unsplash This is part of III discussing my periodization strategies to develop athletes to reduce injuries and optimize performance. If you haven’t read part I and part II yet, you can check it out here and here. So far, we have discussed the work capacity and hypertrophy block so todayContinue reading “My Periodization Strategy for Athletes Part III: The Strength Block”

My Periodization Strategy for Athletes Part II: The Hypertrophy/Basic Strength Block

This is part of II discussing my periodization strategies to develop athletes to reduce injuries and optimize performance. If you haven’t read part I yet, you can check it out here. If you remember from part I, the following image provides the order that I tend to set my blocks up and in part IContinue reading “My Periodization Strategy for Athletes Part II: The Hypertrophy/Basic Strength Block”