If you want the best strength and conditioning programs available, go to this site:
It's made for athletes and coaches. It is state of the art, top of the line strength and conditioning information, including hundreds of programs for all different sports. If you want to see how to do an exercise, just click on it and they show you a video of it.
This site isn't for bodybuilders. There are no ads for supplements. No ads at all, I think. It's just for serious athletes who want to learn the latest, greatest strength and conditioning workouts.
Cal Dietz is the head strength and conditioning coach at the University of Minnesota. He has designed hundreds of programs for many different sports. He uses the triphasic system, where you progress through phases of eccentric, concentric, isometric and power training.
Many of the workouts center around the squat and the bench press. However, he puts a twist in them, using "french contrasts". In french contrasts, you first do 4 or 6 reps on the squat or bench using about 80% of your max. Then, you move to a plyometric move- plyometric jumps or plyometric push-ups. Then, you do the squat or bench with a lighter weight, but very fast. Then, you go to plyometric move again. Rest and repeat 4 times or so.
The workouts are very complete, including warm-ups, strength and power training, conditioning and prehab exercises to prevent injury. They have been designed for the college athletes at the University of Minnesota, the website is designed so that you input your max for different exercises and then it will calculate the percentage and tell you how much weight to use for each exercise. So, if you are a coach, you can put each athlete's max. in the site and then print out workout sheets for the athlete to use.
No, there aren't workouts designed specifically for whitewater slalom racers. However, you can take the workouts designed for other sports and adapt them. These workouts are not for the faint of heart. They aren't likely to be in the popular magazines advertising "Great Abs in 10 Minutes a Day!"
These are serious workouts, complex in design, but there is purpose and reason and thought and research in it all. It's not just designed to tire you out or make you feel like you did a great workout. In fact, the idea is to do the exercises as prescribed, not to "go to failure". The concept is to improve athletic performance and prevent injury.
These programs are at the same time, based on research, and also based on experience with hundreds of athletes over years of training. If you are looking for information on strength and conditioning and want to see what top college athletes are doing, take a look at this site:
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