Discover the truth about InBody scans and bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) for measuring body composition. This comprehensive guide examines the science behind body fat testing methods, reveals the limitations of InBody measurements, and provides practical alternatives for accurately tracking your fitness progress. Learn why factors like hydration status can affect your results and how to implement more reliable tracking methods for your fitness journey.
Discover how training residuals impact athletic performance and why understanding these crucial training adaptations can be the difference between maintaining or losing your hard-earned gains. Learn the science behind different training effects’ “shelf life” – from speed and power to strength and endurance – and how to optimize your training program to maintain peak performance throughout the season. This comprehensive guide breaks down the five key training residuals every coach and athlete needs to know for sustainable athletic development.
Discover the powerful principles behind conjugate and concurrent training methods that have revolutionized athletic development and strength programming. This comprehensive guide breaks down the three fundamental pillars of the conjugate system—max effort, dynamic effort, and repetition methods—while explaining how to implement them effectively for both athletes and strength enthusiasts. Whether you’re a coach looking to optimize your athletes’ performance or a lifter seeking to enhance your training methodology, this in-depth exploration provides practical strategies for programming success.
Dive deep into undulating periodization, an advanced training methodology that’s revolutionizing how athletes and coaches approach strength programming. This comprehensive guide breaks down the science behind non-linear periodization, explaining how to manipulate training variables like intensity, volume, and frequency to optimize athletic performance and prevent burnout. Whether you’re a powerlifter, competitive athlete, or strength coach, discover how this sophisticated programming model can elevate your training to the next level.
Discover how block periodization can transform your training approach and optimize athletic performance through strategically designed training phases. This comprehensive guide breaks down the three crucial phases of block periodization—accumulation, transmutation, and realization—providing you with the advanced programming knowledge needed to achieve multiple performance peaks throughout your training year. Whether you’re a competitive athlete or serious lifter looking to break through plateaus, understanding this powerful training methodology could be the key to unlocking your next level of strength and performance.
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CrossFit For Sports Performance? When it comes to improving athletic performance, there isn’t exactly a perfect way to do. Sit ten strength coaches down in a room, and you’ll get ten different training programs for one specific athlete. That’s one of the great things about sports performance training…that so many options are available. However, we…
As we’re closing in on another week of summer, we had an amazing week of training from everyone. Many of our fall athletes are preparing for an amazing season, and they’ve been training hard all summer long. Personal training clients have been putting in their share of hard work as well, and making the most…
Author: Barrett Snyder Coaching is not linear or logical and it does not always make sense on paper. Presuming a logical progression when coaching an athlete or training a client is extremely silly, regardless of how accomplished of a coach someone might be. Coaching does not have a GPS route, a list of directions that…