Freelap Friday Five

Freelap Friday Five

Five questions, five answers. Our popular, weekly interview series where top professionals from all around the world of sports performance stop by to share their knowledge.

Building Football Players from the Ground up wi...

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Are you a football strength coach and curious to see how your program relates...

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The Nuances of Developing Athlete Power with Dr...

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Are you a performance coach committed to adding sports science into your prog...

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Rapid-Fire Sport Science Solutions with Dr. Galpin

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Struggling to add sport science into your coaching without losing the practic...

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Nicolai Morris on Gymnastics, Grappling, and Gl...

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Want to learn how to incorporate gymnastics and physical-contact play into a ...

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Training and Travel with Paralympic Athlete Ric...

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Eager to train and support athletes who compete in Paralympic sports? In this...

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Exploring the Nuances of Power Development with...

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Are you a strength coach curious about ways to better bridge sports science i...

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From Session to Season: Sprint Training with Ju...

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Do you coach speed and are curious about training sprinters and hurdlers? Thi...

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Preparing the Tactical Athlete for War & W...

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Are you a performance coach and need help preparing tactical athletes? This F...

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Designing the Ultimate Jumping Athlete with Tod...

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Are you a jumps or performance coach and curious about how to develop better ...

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Assisted Sprint Training in the Long Jump

Coach Bob Thurnhoffer believes a key element in the future of sprint and jump training involves effective uses of overspeed and assisted work to meticulously tease out potent speed adaptations. Using two athletes as examples, he presents his assisted sprint training designs, which use assistance for load and peak velocity for the analyzed metric.

How Young Coaches Can Set Their Guiding Principles

When coaches don’t have a set of defined, guiding principles, they’re more likely to chase new training methods and change systems recklessly. Coach Tate Tobiason recommends the development of a broad, but clear set of objectives to use as a framework. Here are his seven principles.

Building Football Players from the Ground up with Bryant Harper

Are you a football strength coach and curious to see how your program relates to other experts in the trenches? This Friday Five is with Bryant Harper, a strength coach who develops football players at the collegiate level. Coach Harper shares his insights on long-term player development in this week’s interview, including how he uses classic principles of training to get the most out of each student-athlete.