Your Strength Training Program – Advanced Tips to Gain Strength Quickly In order to setup a proper strength training routine, you need to understand how a muscle gets stronger. If you fail to understand the physiology behind getting stronger, you will put together a sub-optimal strength training program. My goal in this short article is [...]

9 Reasons Why Everyone Should Strength Train The general opinion when the general public here the word “Weight Training” is of oiled up, macho, muscular men flexing and showing off there muscles. This view often shies a lot of people away from lifting weights….especially women. However, some form of strength training can benefit anyone male [...]

Bodyweight Strength Training: Recommended For All-Purpose Strength Mention strength training, and weight lifting or using machines immediately comes to mind. But there are many types of strength, not just “maximum” strength. I want to show you how bodyweight strength training is excellent for increasing each type of strength and why you should use your own [...]

Strength Training for Football Strength training for football is an artistic and scientific process. There are a lot of variables that must be considered. Players that serve different roles in the game need different training regimens. You have to do a little planning and take a structured approach to your strength training routines. Doing so [...]

Strength, Training & Conditioning for the Rugby World Cup 2011 by pulling a 12 tonne Truck or Plane Have you seen the strongman competition? Won by Žydr?nas Savickas in 2009, it is held annually and often involves giant men such as Bill Kazmaier, Mariusz Pudzianowski and Magnus Ver Magnusson performing feats of strength that are [...]

The Importance of Strength Training and Speed Strength training is required to help develop a “base” from which an athlete can build upon and become faster. Strength is required before power training and it helps to lay the foundation for overall body conditioning. I have found that strength is the single most dominant factor in [...]