How To Build Athletic Muscle
In this guide, we break down how to optimize your training for explosiveness, agility, and functional muscle growth, ensuring you stay fast, powerful, and mobile during your sport.
Best Strength Exercises For Speed
In this video, we break down the best strength exercises you can do to improve your speed as an athlete.
What Are The Best Supplements For Athletes?
Discover the 7 best supplements for athletes that are scientifically proven to enhance athletic performance, improve recovery, and support overall health. From creatine monohydrate for explosive power to omega-3s for reducing inflammation, these evidence-based supplements provide cost-effective solutions for competitive athletes at every level. Learn proper dosing, timing, and implementation strategies to maximize your training results and gain that crucial competitive edge.
What Are Training Residuals?
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.
Optimizing Youth Athletic Performance Through Proper Nutrition
What should your child be eating? Read more to find out how to immediately improve performance.
8 Exercises To Be A Better Athlete
Use these eight exercises to increase your athleticism and performance.
Why Strength And Conditioning Is Important For Youth Athletes
Why Strength And Conditioning Is Important For Youth Athletes One of the major concerns we get here at Terre Haute Intensity Resistance and Sports Training (THIRST) is regarding health and safety of athletes training and lifting weights. Luckily, we’ve already written an article about this on our website, which you can read here. At the…
THIRST Week In Review – July 22, 2019
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…
The 14 Best Resources for Strength – June 2016 Edition
The Importance of Filming Your Lifts – Mark Woods This was a great article discussing the new age of lifting via using video of our lifting. It’s not uncommon to see lifting videos streaming like wildfire on social media, but Mark discusses how filming your lifts can have some immediate feedback if you know what…