Tag Archives: Athlete

The Point of Diminishing Returns

By admin | Published: February 8, 2010

I had a strength coach in college who first started talking to me about, “a point of diminishing returns.” At the time I heavily disagreed with him. In fact for the most part I still do. His premise was that after a player could squat 500lbs or so (really talking about Linemen in football), they [...]

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The Usual Suspects – Part 2

By admin | Published: November 13, 2009

Let’s continue with the thought on finding the important patterns in training. This is all really about narrowing down what’s important and making the most of your limited time by spending it on those things. To do that you need to dissect training not in its minute detail but in a broad overview. Let me [...]