Are You Training Effectively For Your Sport? | Chris Olson

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My first “career gig,” well before becoming a Starting Strength Coach, was coaching competitive youth soccer. In the soccer world, I couldn’t help but marvel at how well parents could often identify the areas in which their children needed improvement (“Josh is really struggling to make accurate passes”), but at the same time so often completely miss the mark on identifying an appropriate solution to the problem...

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​In Part 1, we discussed sport-specific conditioning. We continue here by looking at the importance of sport-specific skill and strength, and then begin a discussion about a different class of tempting exercises that the serious athletes will learn to avoid.

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In the last part of this series, we finish discussing why certain popular exercises fail to yield the desired outcomes in athletic performance. We then conclude the discussion about how to most effectively and efficiently train for your sport by outlining how to best organize an effective and efficient strength program.

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