Better Than Bench Press?
The worst upper body press exercises in my opinion is incline bench press. Here is my rationale.
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High Performance Training for Sports [Book Review]
I haven’t read such a great book in a while (besides Steve Magness’ book The Science of Running which is also highly recommended, but not much aimed to team sports, although you can find certain great ideas that will…
The Olympian Manual for Strength and Size: Blue Print from the World’s Greatest Coach – Book Review
I must thank Yosef Johnson and Martin Binggiser for sending me a free copy of the book. Yosef is running excellent publishing company – Ultimate Athlete Concepts – from which I have ordered a bunch of books, includin…
Planning the In-season Microcycle in Soccer Part 7: Paraskevas Polychronopoulos Case Study
Paraskevas Polychronopoulos is strength and conditioning coach from Greece where he works for an amateur team. He was kind enough to share his template.
FREE courses you should take/watch
These are couple of free (some are not, but it is cheap to buy/rent DVD) courses every human, scientist, manager should see. Not directly related to coaching and training, but provides great ‘complementary’ knowledge…
Simplifying the Complex – Interviewed by Ron McKeefery
Simplifying the Complex – Interviewed by Ron McKeefery I had a pleasure to be interviewed by Ron McKeefery for his Iron Game Chalk Talk show in late June. We had touched a lot of topics and I have enjoyed sharing my th…
How to Load Inverted Row?
I usually do the same setup for loaded ring push-ups (great exercise for upper body horizontal push btw), so I was wondering will this work. The key is to use higher box (bench won't work) and set up the rings a bit high…
Blast From the Past
Blast From the Past These are the two old articles I wrote in 2005 and 2006. Yes I know, time flies. The Overview of Periodization Methods for Resistance Training was published on EliteFTS (I think couple of times) and w…
Couple Ideas to Make AMS Products Better
Couple Ideas to Make AMS Products Better Here are couple of ideas/random thoughts to make Athlete Management Software (e.g SMARTABASE, EDGE10) better. AMS should be simple as possible. If one can’t use it, if it takes …
The Problems of National Team Training and the Solution
First off let me be clear – I have never been involved in national team preparation. Nevertheless, I would like to pinpoint to some issues that I believe are troublesome.
