Landyn Hickmott

Landyn Hickmott, MS, CSCS Powerlifting Athlete, Coach, & Researcher Landyn Hickmott is an emerging researcher specializing in individualization, autoregulation, and velocity-based training as it pertains to the sport of powerlifting. Formerly, he was a semiprofessional hockey player in the Western Hockey League. Currently, he is a nationally-qualified powerlifter in the Canadian Powerlifting Union and a graduate researcher in the Muscle Physiology Lab at Florida Atlantic University. He will be graduating with a thesis-based Master’s of Science in August and will be pursuing a PhD at the University of Saskatchewan in January. Landyn created Individualized Adaptive Powerlifting Programming; a holistic training system that conceptually integrates RPE and VBT in order to develop an individualized and adaptive model that is optimally customized for each powerlifting athlete. Connect with Landyn here! landyn_hickmott9@hotmail.com

Plyometric Training: Increase Your Power

by Joaquín Vico Plaza

What Is Plyometric Training? Strength and fitness specialist Vladimir Zatsiorsky was the first to introduce the word plyometrics, back in 1966. The term justifies the use of the stretching reflex with this term that etymologically comes to mean an "increase in...

Conditioning Circuit for High Performance Athletes

by Joaquín Vico Plaza

What are conditioning circuits? Circuit conditioning is a combination of several exercises performed with no rest in between, or as little rest as possible. The objective will be to complete the conditioning circuit as quickly as possible or complete the maximum...

The 1×20 Program Training Method

by Vitruve Team

A bit of history of the 1x20 training method Dr. Michael Yessis popularized the 1x20 method, and his is the original method. Since he exposed it to the sports community many adaptations have been made by coaches for different sports and athletes. Dr. Yessis is a...