I remember one day in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers weight room a few years ago watching Head Strength Coach Mark Asanovich training one of our offensive linemen. We had been made aware, by the athletic training staff, that this lineman had strained his right shoulder in the last game; he was cleared to lift, as [...]

So I leave tomorrow night for the Strength and Conditioning/Athletic Development Michigan Clinic at the Total Sports Complex in Wixom, Michigan, on Saturday May 22. 

Here’s the lineup of speakers:

Jim Kielbaso, Director of Total Performance at Total Sports Complex, Wixom, MI
Robert Taylor, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach, Loyola College, MD
Rick Court, Director of Football [...]

Walk into any gym in the world, observe the people performing strength training exercises, and you will quickly notice something about the technique used by 99% of them.

Essentially everybody is performing their exercises very quickly. They throw the weight up. They let it drop back down. Mindlessly flailing their limbs with no apparent focus or [...]

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In 1998, I found out via the internet that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Strength and Conditioning Coach, Mark Asanovich, was holding a one-day strength and conditioning clinic at the Buccaneer’s practice facility.

The speakers included Mark, his assistant Aaron Komarek, Minnesota Vikings Strength Coach Steve Wetzel, and nutrition expert Dr. Ted Lambrinides, who at the time [...]

Killer grip strength is a nice thing to have.
Grip strength can be a limiting factor when performing any pulling exercise where you are holding a bar or machine handles, such as deadlifts, pulldowns, rows, shrugs, etc.
If your grip gives out too soon, you will not fully stimulate the target muscles. A little specialized grip [...]

“If you’re going to do it, you might as well do it right”.
My mother in law
With that quote in mind, let’s examine the most effective way to do “lunges”, utilizing the concept of time under tension.
Time under tension refers to how long a muscle is bearing a load of resistance continuously; that is, the amount [...]

So you’ve made a commitment to getting stronger, bigger muscles. You’re not afraid of hard work. You couldn’t possibly be more motivated. You hit the gym with what Mike Mentzer used to call “The Siege Mentality”.
You attack your first exercise. Your form is good-slow, controlled lifting, hold, even slower lowering. You push yourself to the [...]

If you are familiar with the High Intensity Muscle Building program, you know it is a strength training program. What is strength training, and why do I feel so strongly about promoting it? Strength training is the process of improving or increasing the ability to produce muscular force. The benefits of strength training are many, [...]