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Can We Improve Sports Performance by Training the Feet?

The promise of foot training to take athletes to the next level of performance has been circulating for years. But is it really a silver bullet? Coach Carl Valle explains why foot exercises have some merit, but only to restore athletes back to health, not to develop them into stars.

Designing the Ultimate Jumping Athlete with Todd Lane

Are you a jumps or performance coach and curious about how to develop better athletes? In this week’s Friday Five, track and field coach Todd Lane, who leads the jumps program at LSU, explains the nuances of coaching speed and jumping power, focusing on the details that make his athletes better in the long run.

High Performance Library – The Next Big Thing

As Coach Craig Pickering points out, an athlete’s journey from talented youth to successful senior is not assured and is often full of both temporary and permanent setbacks. Pickering pulls some examples of these “next big things” from Ryan Baldi’s The Next Big Thing: How Football’s Wonderkids Get Left Behind and combines their stories of unrealized potential with research from the field of athlete development to develop key lessons for all coaches.

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