The Concept 2 Rower is a staple in our programs. Though many of our remote programming clients, swimmers, and other athletes have a large base of aerobic conditioning from their sport-specific training, the rower provides a variety of benefits that these athletes not otherwise develop. It is rare that we program 1,000m rows and even …
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Tip #2: Train Lower Leg Flexion for More Resilient Breaststrokers Lower leg flexion, notably leg curls like the machine hamstring curl, swiss ball hamstring curl, valslide hamstring curl, and a handful of other variants regularly take the backseat in targeted hamstring training to hip hinging variations like the Romanian Deadlift (RDL), Trap Bar Deadlift, …
Tip #1: Never Underestimate the Band Pull Apart Regardless of if our swimmers are just doing a short warm-up, like our Champion Complex, or a more lengthy workout, I always encourage our athletes to do at least a handful of band pull aparts. For athletes that I’m fortunate enough to work with throughout the year, …
Tiger Woods reportedly has a bench press 1RM of somewhere around 300 lbs. (up to 350 lbs. by some estimates) and evidently Rory McIlroy is a known gym rat. Regardless of these reports, the facts are in regarding the the efficacy of strength training in pursuit of a better golf game–strength training works. Like most …
Internal Program Review: Enhancing Power Transfer in a Collegiate Golfer Read More »
We’ve added a new post in our Internal Program Review series. This time, we’ve published the post with our partners at Swimming Science. This program review focuses on a single training day within one of our high school swimmer’s program. Read more on this at Swimming Science. You can also find other Internal Program Reviews here, on RuthlessPerformance.com. Internal Program Review: Corrective …
Internal Program Review: Strength Training for an Elite Freshman Swimmer Read More »
With the vast expanse that is the winter swim season raipidly approaching, I wanted to take the time to yet again detail one of our swimming programs. In this particular case, we’re going to explain the Ruthless Performance methods that made this program so effective. To provide context for this case study, we will be …
Internal Program Review: High School Swimmer Pre-Season Strength Training – Day 2 Read More »
The strength and conditioning community is far too fractioned; proprietary training programs and secrecy hide the inner workings of many sports performance coaching theories and facilities. At Ruthless Performance, we find this idea entirely backwards—this mentality is a sign of some fragile egos and insecurity within the industry. To do our part in mitigating this, …
