I’m filling in for Kelsey this morning – teaching the women’s A.M. group class (these ladies are awesome!) – so I’m currently crunched for time in between two of the classes. I thought I’d pass along a phenomenal short article I recently read by Adam Bornstein (former Fitness Editor for Men’s Health, and current Editorial [...]
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Today’s post is in honor of “Female Strength”. I had the privilege of seeing two feats of strength this past week. The first was with three of our softball girls who train with us at SAPT. They had their senior night last Friday and it was pretty cool to watch them perform on the field. [...]
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Q: “What’s wrong with situps? I’ve read Steveo’s comments about rarely programming them and offering better choices. I also read that getting an obese person to endless situps won’t work. My wife wants to argue with me about it! Do they just plain not work? Are the somewhat effective? What makes the wrong? Thank you!!!” [...]
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The overwhelming request we get almost daily: Do you guys do speed training? My answer: Hellz YES! In an effort to compliment my running related warnings over at StrongGirlsWin.com from earlier today, I wanted to take this post to another level and get all geeked-out over some real-deal sprint training.You gotta present both sides of [...]
READ MORE »I was recently reminded of this drill as, last week, I tested my hip internal rotation and found it to be woefully lacking, compared to just twelve months ago (pulling SUMO five days a week, along with already possessing extremely overused and stiff external rotators, will certainly have this effect….) While I’ve been much more [...]
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This morning, Sarah and I are meeting with a local physical therapy clinic, in order to discuss working together to better serve our athletes and clients. This reminded me of an article of mine that was published a couple years ago over at ElitefTS.com, that many of you may not have seen yet. Bridging the [...]
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I get questions all the time about what I eat and how I train (mostly from friends and the high schoolers we work with) which I’ve answered before on my blog posts. However, I don’t do it very often so I figured I’d make it more of a reoccurring thing so here are two recipes [...]
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Q: Hi Steve, I’m very new to the powerlifting/strong(wo)man training world … and I love reading your blog! It’s always chock full with information. One thing I was wondering, and maybe it’d be a topic to write about … how do you come up with workouts?? Do you make stuff up?? Have a “grab-bag” of [...]
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(Note: This is a message from Sarah Walls, the SAPT President.) In honor of a summer-long celebration for SAPT’s 5th Anniversary, we’re offering a 25% discount on ALL paid-in-full session packages* until Thursday, May 24th! For our most popular Nuts-&-Bolts package, the savings will top $175 and for our twice-weekly adult training package, the savings [...]
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Okay, I’m almost done with this seemingly never-ending series, I promise. I only have today’s post – to cover an often overlooked component of program design – and I’ll finish off the series on Wednesday with a few “blueprint” suggestions. Moving on, let me briefly touch on an achilles heel of mine…. 5. Perfectionism I’m [...]
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