08/31/2026
If you have limited time with athletes it’s best not to spend too much time doing “weird” s**t.
I’m all for a good prep circuit, working those fascial slings, and some needed “prehab” in an athletes program. But when you only get them seasonally it’s best to not stray too far from modalities that will actually improve the operating systems and provide enough stress for the system to respond to.
Lift something heavy and move something fast, is a contrast training method of pairing a heavy lift with a similar but lighter movement, such as a jump, a throw, a sprint, or maybe plyometric type of movement with shorter faster ground contact times. There’s a lot of neural excitation that happens, which is vital to strength and conditioning program success. There’s also a lot of neuromuscular coordination from heavy resistance training paired with the high speed coordinative movements paired with it. This is also vital to athletic success.
Quite simply, it allows you to expose connective tissues to the thing that makes them more durable (resistance training) and the thing that helps them apply force and accept force faster, (speed, power and plyometrics).
It doesn’t have to be crazy complex. Keep it simple, and apply enough heavy stress to elicit tissue adaptation, and enough high speed, explosive movements to keep them athletic. Don’t be too weird in your programming.
