Snippit Sports Science Podcast

Hi everyone and welcome to this week's podcast. We have just finished up our short series on heat with respect to human performance. This next series of articles is looking at Isometric strength training. There appears to be a bit of good information and people out there at the moment including isometric training at present. Myself, I've also decided to incorporate long duration isometrics into my own training. Therefore to gain a better understanding of isometrics I thought of why not a better opportunity to read up on it and present it on this podcast. As a start to this series, I thought it was best to gain a better understanding of what isometric strength training is. Instead of going to an article, I've found a brilliant section out of a fantastic book, Special Strength Training Manual for Coaches which is authored by Yuri and Natalia Verkhoshansky. This is one of the classic read for all S&C coaches so if you haven't read it, I'd put it on your "to read list." The areas we cover in this includes: Wh