Injuries and rehabilitation
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How can you apply stress with pulls to train strength and balance when stability issues are present? In this post I´m going to show you a way that Starting Strength coach at the Wichita Falls Athletic Club, Carmen Phillips, uses to set up in the rack to get the job done.
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What do you do when injuries and structural changes make it so that holding the bar in the squat is limiting? In this post I´ll show a couple options that Rusty and Carmen, both coaches at the Wichita Falls Athletic Club, use so that their clients can still train the squat. Coaches Rusty and Carmen…
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We’re going to talk about the monolift today. When you’re benching by yourself, you need to be safe. The monolift and a good power rack is a good combination to stay safe while still lifting the heaviest amounts of weights as you can. So we’re going to talk about how to set it up, and…
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In this post I´m going to explain how the leg press can be used to incrementally load a new trainee to develop the leg strength needed to squat. A leg press machine is one of the most constant features of commercial gyms all over the world. Everybody’s got a leg press machine because it allows…
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Tony Holler is a track and field coach and a football and basketball physical trainer. He works at Plainfield North High School. He is also a member of the Illinois Track & Field Hall of Fame and co-director of the Track Football Consortium with Chris Korfist. Tony Holler is the author of the “Feed the Cats” training method.…
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Pull ups and chin ups are a strength exercise performed with one’s own body weight that should be included in any athlete’s strength training, regardless of whether they train for competitive purposes or to improve and maintain physical fitness. This fabulous self-loading exercise helps us strengthen our back, improve our body posture and develop general…
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