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Throwing

The JuggLife | Don Babbitt

University of Georgia Throws Coach Don Babbitt, who has coached over a dozen athletes to the Olympics in the Shot Put…

Sports Training

Sport Performance Pillars | Exercise Classification and Selection

What is better for the athlete, front squats or back squats? Deadlifts or Olympic Lifts? Chad explains his process of…

Sports Training

Exercise Classifications for the Baseball Pitcher

*I apologize in advance for any gleaming generalizations that take place in this article. My aim is to shed light on…

Training

Rethinking Specificity

Specific training involves practicing the exact moves of your sport at the same forces, velocities, angles, muscle…

STRONG360

STRONG360 Monthly-April Issue

Strong360 Monthly has arrived and is bringing you exclusive, unparalleled knowledge to help you improve as an athlete…

Training

A Case Against Specificity

Pendulums swing to and fro. That’s what pendulums do. I see another pendulum swinging lately and this one has to do…

Training

Selecting Specific Strength Exercises

It is one thing to know which specific strength exercises to use, but the power is really in understanding how and when…

Training

Special Strength Exercises

Special strength has a role in every athlete’s training and the first step in incorporating special strength into a…

Movement

October’s Top 8

At Juggernaut we strive to bring you the highest quality content from athletes and coaches who are currently in the…

Sports Training

Special Strength: Theory and Practice

I come from the world of hammer throwing. While my sport may be obscure, it has the same core elements as other power…

Throwing

5 Questions with Coach John Frazier

John Frazier serves as the Head Throws Coach at UCLA, where he also competed in the 1980s with PRs of 65’2.75” in the…

Throwing

Learning to Fish

Got out today and took some throws. I am always stoked to spend a Sunday doing some throwing and training with some…