Strength and Conditioning Stuff You Should Read: 9/24/19

Written on September 24, 2019 at 3:59 am, by Eric Cressey

I hope you had a great weekend. We were super busy with the fall seminar at our MA location, and yesterday (Monday) was our business mentorship. While I didn’t have time to pull together new content, I did curate some content from around the ‘net for you.

Even More Complete Shoulder and Hip Blueprint – Dean Somerset and Tony Gentilcore’s new product is on sale at a great price. The first installment had some really good nuggets, and I’m working my wife through the second one now; it’s definitely living up to the hype as well. It’s on sale for $70 off this week and comes with CEUs.

Lee Taft on the Biggest Coaching Mistakes in Speed Training – Lee Taft was a guest on Mike Robertson’s podcast and he went through a ton of the most common challenges coaches face when teaching movement skills.

Tackling the Cranky Local Football Coach Conundrum – I spent all day yesterday hearing Pete Dupuis talk during our business mentorship, so you’d think that I’d be tired of him by now. Nope! This content is that important to coaches in the private sector.

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“Our training in college was excessive and absurd. Our training in pro ball has been insufficient and absurd.”

Development doesn’t happen at extremes. It happens at the sweet spot in the middle where work capacity is challenged, but not overwhelmed.

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*PROGRESSION PRINCIPLES* 👇 Here are some principles to guide your strength training progressions. Keep in mind that there might be times when you might utilize more than one of these strategies at a time. Here are some examples of each: 1. Increase the resistance: pick heavier stuff up. 2. Increase the range-of-motion: progress from a a regular split squat to a split squat from a deficit 3. Make the base of support smaller: go from a bilateral to unilateral exercise 4. Raise the center of mass: switch from dumbbell lunges to barbell lunges. 5. Move the resistance further away from the axis of motion: switch from a trap bar deadlift to a conventional deadlift. 6. Add dynamic changes to the base of support: switch from a split squat to a lunge 7. Reduce the number of points of stability: switch from regular push-ups to 1-leg push-ups 8. Use an unstable surface: do ankle rehab balance drills on an unstable surface instead of the flat ground 9. Apply destabilizing torques to the system: do a 1-arm farmer’s walk instead of a two-armed version 10. Increase the speed of movement/deceleration demands: move the bar faster concentrically, or switch from reverse lunges to forward lunges (more deceleration) 💪 Have another approach that you think should be included? Drop a comment below! 👍 Find this useful? Tag a friend, colleague, or lifting partner who could also benefit. 👊

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