Talking about explosive upper body exercises we need to think about it from various perspectives. To start, we want to see a rapid stretch shortening cycle. When there is a rapid stretch shortening cycle, the body will learn how to absorb energy and reuse it as actively as possible. That is a key concept to having athletic prowess.

In the world of strength and conditioning, in the world of sports performance training, there are multiple different camps. There are the camps that say do bodybuilding, and then there are the camps that are anti-bodybuilding because isolating joints is somehow bad. There are also the powerlifting camps that are all about the box squats and want to make sure the knees aren’t passing the toes...

At Garage Strength, we work with a lot of clients who have stopped their athletic careers. They may have aged out, had kids, or just got caught up in other facets of life. A lot of times, these veterans miss training like athletes. They want to train like an athlete to reap all the benefit within their lifestyles...

Often times training around sprinting is going to revolve around fast movements and rapid rates of coordination. Naturally, people are confused about how bodybuilding can help in the sport of sprinting. Well we know that to be good at sprinting, athletes need to have an explosive start, a strong drive phase, great mechanics at top-end speed and slow down the slowest to be a world-class sprinter...

Becoming a faster sprinter requires being explosive. There are often times in the sport of sprinting where athletes feel there is nothing that can be done to drop their times. They think that they have done everything. They’ve improved their technique; they’ve added volume to their training; they’ve reduced volume in their training to feel fresh and tapered. Still, they’re not lowering their time. The sprinters get frustrated, feeling like they’re banging their head against the wall and getting nothing but a headache and frustration...