Strength and Conditioning Stuff You Should Read: 3/17/15

Let's get this week off on the right foot with some recommended strength and conditioning reading: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us - An incoming Cressey Sports Performance intern asked for some additional recommended reading on top of the [...]

By |2024-09-20T00:44:26-04:00March 17, 2015|Blog|1 Comment

Repetition vs. Randomness: Which Will Get You Fit Faster?

In his book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, author Nir Eyal goes to great lengths to discuss the various factors that make consumers fall in love with certain offerings. One factor he highlights in great depth is novelty - [...]

By |2024-09-11T21:40:20-04:00March 12, 2015|Blog|6 Comments

Conditioning for Powerlifters (and Anyone Who Just Wants to Get Strong)

Today's guest post is an interview orchestrated by Jen Sinkler, the creator of the expansive new conditioning resource, Lift Weights Faster 2.0. Enjoy! -EC Full disclosure: I didn’t actually expect to actually like powerlifting. I just wanted to experience it [...]

By |2024-09-20T00:44:57-04:00March 10, 2015|Blog|2 Comments

Coaching Cues to Make Your Strength and Conditioning Programs More Effective – Installment 11

In today's post, I want to cover three more coaching cues you can use to clean up your training technique. These are ones I use all the time with athletes at Cressey Sports Performance: 1. "Create a gap." I use [...]

By |2024-09-11T21:49:04-04:00March 5, 2015|Blog|11 Comments

Strength and Conditioning Stuff You Should Read: 3/4/15

It's been a busy week, so I've gotten a late start to putting out new content. Fortunately, I came across some good reads from around the 'net. Check these out: The Positivity Trap: How Upbeat Coaches Can Kill Client Results [...]

By |2024-09-20T00:45:19-04:00March 4, 2015|Baseball|0 Comments

Strength and Conditioning Programs: Understanding Stress and Adaptation

Today's guest post comes from former Cressey Sports Performance intern, James Cerbie. Enjoy! -EC I’m going to let you in on a little secret: Your body has its own bank account. It’s an account full of what we’ll call adaptive [...]

By |2024-09-20T00:45:45-04:00February 25, 2015|Blog|4 Comments

Strength and Conditioning Stuff You Should Read: 2/23/15

Happy Monday, folks! Here are some good strength and conditioning articles to kick off your week: Hip Extension and Rotational in the Baseball Swing - Here's a "reincarnation" from the archives, courtesy of Houston Astros Minor League Hitting Coordinator, Jeff [...]

By |2024-09-20T00:46:35-04:00February 23, 2015|Blog|0 Comments

Long-Term Athletic Development: Optimizing A Young Athlete’s First Day at the Gym

Today's guest post comes from Cressey Sports Performance - MA Director of Performance, John O'Neil. I'd like to devote more attention to long-term athletic development here at EricCressey.com, and John will be helping me do so. This article is geared [...]

By |2024-09-20T00:47:49-04:00February 19, 2015|Baseball|4 Comments

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