Jumping and Sprinting Improves Shot Put Performance
In the March issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, Terzis et al take a look at post activation potentiation (PAP) and the shot put. The authors begin the article with an excellent review of the literature pointing out that there are inconsistencies in the literature about its effectiveness. They hypothesize that these [...]
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The Squat Exercise, Part 4: Training the Squat
To get better at your squat, there are a few things that you need: 1. More muscle mass: The more muscle mass you have, the stronger you have the potential to be. It’s going to be important to increase your muscle mass to lay a foundation for strength gains. 2. Stronger legs and hips: Since [...]
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The Squat Exercise, Part 2: Dangers
We’ve probably all heard that squats are bad for the knees. This all comes from a classic study done in the 1960’s by a professor at the University of Texas named Karl Klein that looked at the impact of the “deep squat” exercise on the knees. The deep squat exercise (in his study) is where [...]
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The Squat Exercise: Part I, What it Does
The squat exercise is widely used in bodybuilding, weightlifting, athletics, powerlifting, strongman, and recreational training. It has an effect on the lower body, trunk/core, and total body strength unmatched by almost any other exercise. And yet, it is also one of the most misunderstood exercises largely due to a single study done over forty years [...]
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Strength Training for the Sprints: Practice vs. Theory
Leo Settle has written an old school article on strength training and sprinters. I call this old school because he is drawing heavily from some of the older material from Dintman, Ward, and Telez (circa Sports Speed) and Dunn and McGill (The Throws Manual). At the core of this article are two ideas. First, strength [...]
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The Nervous System And Exercise: It May Be More Complicated Than We Think
Roger Enoka has been an interesting author and researcher for a number of years. He did an analysis of the pull in Olympic lifting that is a classic paper and also published an excellent textbook with Human Kinetics. He has a review article on fatigue in the February issue of the Journal of Biomechanics that [...]
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