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What is power and why should you care? If you are an athlete, your ability to be powerful is often the crux of performance. Power is fundamental to performance because it directly impacts explosiveness, speed, and strength—all massively important components in most sports. Whether your focus is strength, speed or endurance sport, improving your power is a game changer to success.

So how do you build that? You know if you want to build stronger legs, you squat. If you want better coordination, you work on your agility. But what should be the training focus for improved power? Take your pick at any of the exercises below and get good at them. And if you need help, head over to the peak strength app where we take the guesswork out of it for you.

Sprinting makes us think of coming out of the blocks from the gunshot. Being explosive out of the blocks will take us into the first, second, and third steps....

The first thing we have to talk about is how to lose weight. If we are trying to get leaner we have to discuss losing weight and analyze how losing the weight....

These myths come from fake gurus and fitness influencers who have barely if ever, trained anyone. So we feel a need to bust these myths and shed some....

Squatting every day has a few big examples. Pat Mendes squatted 600 lbs every day for like 2 years straight. Ivan Djuric is someone who squats every single....

How Strong Is Strong Enough? In its simplest form, strength is the ability to apply force to an opposing object or even into the earth....

Linear periodization is the first template of periodization that originated in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and ’60s. Linear periodization is a simple guide that....

Trying to increase our power output or power levels, let’s start by thinking about a video game and seeing the player character’s power meter increasing across....

Hypertrophy can essentially happen through two different means. There is myofibrillar hypertrophy which is an increase in muscular fibrils, which....

When it comes to powerlifting people think of Louie SImmons, RIP, training some of the strongest freaks in the entire world at Westside Barbell. For me.....

When in the hanging position and fully lengthened, our rhomboids, lats, and traps will be initiating the bottom position. We really need to think of retracting our scaps using the rhomboids, traps, and lats to get out of the bottom position.

Some of the basic principles behind losing weight have to be covered before we can go into losing weight and gaining strength. If we keep it as simple as.....