Women are often told to train like the guys, but we aren’t guys. Apart from the obvious, women have some pretty significant differences when it comes to their training needs. Female athletes are at a much ... Continue Reading
Work Your Muscles with Unilateral Training
Unilateral training isn’t anything new these days. We hear a lot about different techniques to do it, such as carries, bands, kettlebells, suspension trainers, and single-limb exercises. But since so many ... Continue Reading
Center Your Training on Unilateral Movements
Very few of us train for the sake of training. Every coach I know and every athlete and trainee I work with ascribes a “why” behind their “what.” We train to improve performance. Better performance of ... Continue Reading
Create Muscular Balance With Unilateral Training
A 2004 study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology opens with an intriguing story. One day in 1984, a Miss Emily M. Brown squeezed a rubber bulb as strongly as possible with her left hand. She ... Continue Reading
Unilateral Leg Training, Part 4: Correcting the Imbalances
In part one Historical Perspectives I raised the two challenges I faced in the 1980s - first, that there were inadequate numbers of exercises being used in single-leg format, and second, that the few ... Continue Reading
Unilateral Leg Training, Part 3: 7 Key Practical Strategies
Now that everyone is utilizing single-leg training, surely they have figured it out. But I suggest not. As I outlined in part two Challenging The Overreaction, there are many ways that the majority are ... Continue Reading
Unilateral Leg Training, Part 2: Challenging the Overreaction
In part one Historical Perspectives I shared a historical review of single leg training. In this second installment, I will focus on what I call the overreactions to the single-leg training trend that I ... Continue Reading
Unilateral Leg Training, Part 1: Historical Perspectives
Everywhere you look in the training world today you see single leg exercises. You could be forgiven for thinking that it was always this way. It wasn’t. The purpose of this article is understand how we ... Continue Reading
Using the Single Leg Squat to Test Leg Health
The single leg squat has gained a lot of popularity in the last few years. It’s an easy exercise to build leg strength that can be done at home with little or no equipment and without a spotter. Exercise ... Continue Reading
Unilateral Exercise Improves Endurance On Both Sides
Remember years ago hearing about the benefits to strength when you strength train just one side of your body? Even if you don’t work one arm at all, but work the other, the arm you don’t exercise will get ... Continue Reading
