4 Big Mistakes in Strength and Speed Training

Training for speed and strength does not have to be very fancy. It doesn’t need to be all that scientific either. Don’t get me wrong, there are proper ways of planning, set/rep schemes, volume, frequencies, duration, intensity, and a whole other load of variables that go into a great program… But you shouldn’t have to [...]

How To Get Faster and Stronger Training Twice Per Week

Recently, I was asked by one of my newsletter subscribers about how I would structure a training program for athletic strength and speed development with athletes that could only train 2 and/or 3 days per week. Luckily, this is actually quite easy and most athletes that I have worked with have actually done very well training only 3 times per week

How to Build Bigger Arms

Guns, jacks, pipes, hooks, pythons… Whatever you call them, the fact remains that most guys want bigger arms. While they are nowhere near as impressive as a big set of traps, you still don’t want to have and extra six inches of space in your shirt sleeves; that’s for sure. So the question is…

How To Train for Speed PLUS An Example Week of Training

In the spirit of summer and football season nearly here, I’m in a very sharing mood. If you were ever curious to see how I structure speed and strength training programs for athletes that I work with, you’ll enjoy the sample week of training that I’ve been putting a group of athletes through recently (2 [...]

How to Develop Explosive Power

Developing explosive power doesn’t have to be fancy. Sometimes the most simple methods yield the best results! Read on to see how jump training can benefit strength and speed.

5 Tips for Faster Sprinting Speed

If you want to run fast and excel in your given sport, you need to train properly for it. Unfortunately most of the athletes and coaches I come into contact with have zero clue on how to train for optimal sprint speed, or still are under the assumption that “Speed can’t be taught”. That’s just [...]

Is a Pump Needed to Build Muscle?

Guest Post/Article from Jason Ferrugia, world-famous fitness expert and best-selling author of Muscle Gaining Secrets Is a “Pump” Needed to Build Muscle? By Jason Ferruggia Who could ever forget that famous line from Pumping Iron where Arnold said that getting a good pump was better than sex? We all laughed, although some of us harder [...]

Muscle Building Nutrition

Guest Post from Jason Ferruggia, author of the best selling Muscle Gaining Secrets program. Muscle Building Nutrition By: Jason Ferruggia It has been said that nutrition is responsible for 80% of your muscle building results. I think that is dramatically overstating it but nutrition is critically important to your muscle building efforts. Without proper nutrition [...]

Why Cardio Training Doesnt Work for Fat Loss

Guest Article from Craig Ballantyne,  CSCS, MS; Author of Turbulence Training Why Cardio Doesn’t Work for Fat Loss By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS www.TurbulenceTraining.com Cardio exercise is such a strange thing. In theory, it should work so perfectly well for all men and women, but as anyone who has tried it knows,  the practicality of [...]

Deloading for Optimal Strength and Speed Development

When you train very hard for a long duration of time, eventually you need to take 1 step backwards to take 2 steps forwards. Training should be planned around taking periodic de-load or recovery weeks in order to allow the joints, tendons, muscles, and the mind to regenerate and come back stronger than before. What [...]

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