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Weighted vests are a great option for those who want a quick and smart way to improve athletic development. This article reviews the benefits of a loaded vest and how to select the proper amount of weight.

The amount of information that has been written on Olympic lifting is vast and can be overwhelming. Here are five tips that focus on key concepts that produce results.

An evaluation of technique, purpose, and testing can help avoid these medicine ball training mistakes.

Jose Fernandez stands as one of the most creative minds in sports performance and sports medicine. His experience ranges from the use of muscle diagnostic data, advanced physiological testing, to some of the most progressive solutions in sport. The last few years he has spearheaded Haloview, a consulting company in Spain and the UK.

A review of the 2014 Windsprint Seminar chaired by Hakan Andersson and hosted in Sundsvall, Sweden. The list of presenters included Juha Ruohonen, Carl Valle, Stefan Sandlund, and Mehis Viru.

The debate continues regarding the importance of vertical and horizontal forces during sprinting.

Top five jumping exercises for rhythmic power, injury prevention, coordination, screening and evaluation, and power management.

For decades the use of EMS (Electrical Muscle Stimulation) was a highly touted option for elite athletes to reach higher levels of performance. For years many athletes have used EMS as a recovery option, especially after a muscle tear. Recently the trend of EMS use is back again. Many questions are resurfacing, the most obvious, does EMS work for recovery and performance?

Intensity is the trademark of Crossfit, but it is the intensity combined with “rabid empiricism and obsessiveness about the measurement of results.” CrossFit focuses on real world assessments of performance under intensity that can be “clocked, counted, or put on a scale.”

One of the most demanding plyometrics exercises is depth jumps, usually performed by stepping off a box and jumping immediately after ground contact. In sports performance, it’s usually the most poorly applied exercise in all of training, especially at the youth level. Perhaps the most obvious question is not just why one should do depth jumps, how to apply or do them properly?

This article on weight sleds will build on the concepts of the earlier sled article regarding using a velocity and kinematic approach to improving acceleration, while introducing some novel concepts such as potentiation and using split timing. It is important to note the goal of the article is not to promote or dispel dogma and myths, but to create an applied formula to develop acceleration from 5-60m.

If there is a central governor relative to high speed running—and again this is just a theory---are the fastest athletes in the world those who are able to over-ride that governor? And in so doing, might they be choosing to put themselves on the edge of a catastrophic injury?