"Conditioning" Blogs & Blog Posts

The Iowa Hawkeyes star is reaping the benefits on the court after working with strength and conditioning coach Lindsay Alexander.

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For years, Joel Embiid’s fitness level concerned Philadelphia 76ers coaches and management. During his first season with the team, which he missed with a fracture in his foot, the Sixers started sending staffers to his apartment to stock his fr...

This is just a fun one. It helps if your sandbag has handles, or at least a nice bit of slack in the bag that you can grab onto easily. (Reminder: trim your nails.) We’re going to do sandbag cleans. Read more...

Pavlok is a wristband that one can use to deliver mild electric shocks to oneself, an experiment in Pavlovian self-conditioning. Intelligent Environments is a UK firm that has invented a "platform" to link it to your bank account, so it can shock you...

Just because we've conditioned ourselves to play PC games a certain way doesn't mean everybody else has to follow suit. In today's charming Speak Up on Kotaku commenter Confirm4Crit tells the inspiring story of what happened when he handed his non-ga...

1. Train Your Balance. Improving your balance helps your kicks, throws, takedowns,stances, and many other techniques in the martial arts. Trystanding on one foot while you put your shoes on and tiethem, one foot at a time. While you’re waiting in...