Max Effort Sled Workout
Training Brief This Max effort movement is performed with a weighted sled attached to a belt around your waist. When pulling ensure your heel is striking the pavement...
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Banded Home Workout - For Your Joints
Workout Brief The aim of this quick workout is to put force into our joints to keep whatever range of motion you have healthy. The body uses force inputs...
CONJUGATE TACTICAL “AT HOME, WEEK ONE”
Training Brief Bodyweight training based on efficiency and necessity to keep your central nervous system stimulated while providing force to joints to keep them healthy. Equipment Needed...
Westside Barbell: Gym Based Home Workouts
Main Training Days Below is the first week of bare-bones conjugate style workouts you can do to for your strength as well as increase GPP. Day...
Westside Barbell: GPP Home Workouts
Statics These are primarily extra workouts for the back end of the day for one's GPP(general physical preparedness) and SPP(special physical preparedness). However, they are also targeted towards maintaining as...
GPP Workouts at Home
Can't get to the gym? Don't sweat it, instead use it as an opportunity to get back to the basics. Many today have 'home gyms,' whether this means...
Football, a Conjugate Approach P.2
Football, a Conjugate Approach Part 2: Constraints Tags: football, strength and conditioning, athletics Below are the two primary constraints (time and equipment) which bind and...
Football, a Conjugate Approach
Part 1: Overview Tags: football, strength and conditioning, athletics What would happen if a top level collegiate football team was trained utilizing a pure...
Differences
Tags: coach, workout, knowledge For every one, there is another. Maximal and Dynamic. Two opposing philosophies which when intertwined together net substantial results. Sumo and Conventional. Two...
Delt Health
Shoulder Prehab Circuit:Battle Chain/Battle Rope 10x1min Each minute, perform 5 external circles, then 5 internal circles until the minute elapses. Rest to 90%, repeat. For more on...
Throw Bo's
DB Press Change Up... For next Saturday's repetition method, give this a try. Each set is comprised of 25 reps with 3 variations performed consecutively: 5 reps elbows...
Simple Plan
Dynamic Effort Lower Safety Bar Box Squat 5x5@50% 1RM-box = 1" below competition depth2" Deficit Conventional Speed Pulls 12x1@45% 1RM-bands at top ~200lbsATP Assisted Squat 4x10-holding rack beam...