by Timothy Caron | Sep 15, 2026 | In the Lab
The Progressive Rep Scheme: How to Get Stronger In-Season Without Burning Your Athletes Out Every off-season program I write eventually hits the same wall: the season starts, and the training calendar doesn’t get shorter—it gets harder to manage. Off-season...
by Timothy Caron | Sep 9, 2026 | In the Lab
Tom House’s 1991 classic, Nolan Ryan’s Pitcher’s Bible, introduced a deceptively simple idea: throwing a baseball hard, repeatedly, creates a measurable physical stress load — and the weight room’s job is to build the capacity to absorb that...
by Timothy Caron | Sep 3, 2026 | In the Lab
What prompted this discussion Recently, I worked with an athlete who presented an interesting combination of characteristics: Relatively low concentric impulse at 100 ms Better concentric impulse at 200 ms Relatively low eccentric utilization ratio (EUR) This created...
by Timothy Caron | Aug 20, 2026 | In the Lab
If you coach on Prime equipment, you’ve seen the dial: 1 Middle | 2 End (Shortened) | 3 Beginning (Lengthened) | 4 Middle + End | 5 Beginning + Middle. Most coaches treat it like a range-of-motion limiter — pick a number, get a shorter range. That’s not...
by Timothy Caron | Apr 22, 2026 | In the Lab
What is contrast? Contrast training relies on the concept of “post-tetanic potentiation” (PTP), which states that a stronger muscular response can be achieved if it is preceded by a strong muscular contraction. Contrast training is a strategy to get more out of...
by Timothy Caron | Aug 31, 2025 | In the Lab
I had a high school athlete this summer who made some incredible improvements. Started with an EUR assessment and found he was fairly symmetrical, 40.2cm compared to 39.6cm (EUR of 1.01). Pretty clear that the lowest hanging fruit to increase eccentric strength. The...
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