Garage Blog

One of the biggest struggles strength and conditioning coaches have at all levels is figuring out how to write a strength program, especially when looking at it......

Larry Wheels, in my belief, is one of the strongest people in the world. He is all over social media as an influencer. He is monstrous. He is a...

Programming for masters athletes can be very difficult. There are a lot of moving pieces. There are a lot of factors and issues in LIFE that need to be factored in when programming and periodizing for masters lifters.

Mobility will improve your performance in football; it will improve your performance in any sport. Mobility is a must, especially when training for....

Right up front, we know that in the sport of olympic weightlifting there’s going to be a lot of overhead work. In competition, the first movement that needs.....

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Selecting the right rep scheme is just as important as exercise selection when tailoring a program to a specific type of athlete. The typical break...

Explosiveness is probably the most desired quality to have by athletes. Being explosive means you can be quicker and faster, jump higher, throw fur...

Going in to the FinalX: Bethlehem, the final qualifier for the upcoming World Championships for wrestling, I think both Nick and I were feeling some pressure. Nick needed to beat Adam Coon, who had previously beaten Kyle Snyder, an Olympic Champion.

Often times weightlifting coaches and throws coaches alike have asked why I use close grip snatch as a variation.  They want to know where the transfer can be found from the strength side and if there is even a transfer from the technical side of the movement.  Then the never ending question arises….who did I learn the movement from?

I think almost every athlete has been in this situation before: creeping closer to a major competition, beginning your peak, and yet things just feel slightly off. Your legs aren’t moving as fast as you thought they would, and you aren’t throwing as far or lifting as much as you thought you would. Here, I’m going to explain why this is perfectly fine--and even expected.

There are many successful women on the world stage who coaches look to for inspiration. I think many coaches lose sight of the fact that these athletes are throwing, at the heaviest, a 4 kilogram implement (in the case of shot and hammer). The women’s discus only weighs 2.2 pounds! Yet I hear high school coaches telling female athletes things like, “you gotta go to McDonald’s, you gotta put on weight.” This is exactly the wrong attitude to take. Women don’t NEED to be huge to throw far. You can take one of a number of examples of excellent female throwers who are muscular, but not terribly overweight: Maggie Ewen, Valarie Allman, Whitney Ashley, Sandra Perkovic, the list goes on. Perkovic is easily the most dominant female discus thrower alive right now. Ewen is the most well rounded thrower, female or male, on the planet.