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.

Increasing the Applied Factor of Sport Science ...

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Do you work with overhead athletes or monitor teams or are you curious about ...

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A Holistic Approach to Athlete Recovery with Dr...

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In this week’s Friday Five, Dr. Josh Nelson discusses a holistic and principl...

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Specificity in Team Sport Speed, Conditioning &...

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Want to take an inside look at a high-performance model of practices for carr...

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Next-Level Max Speed Development with Vince And...

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Dedicated to taking your speed program to the next level with your athletes? ...

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Modernizing American Football Training with Joe...

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Are you a performance coach curious about developing American football player...

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Communication and Connecting to Athletes and Co...

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Interested in improving your communication with both team coaches and athlete...

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Insight on Running a Track & Field Program...

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Ron Grigg, longtime Director of Track and Field for the highly successful pro...

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The Art of Sprint Technique Instruction with Gr...

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Graham Eaton is a fifth-grade teacher in Salisbury, MA. He graduated from Sal...

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Complementary Game Speed & Hamstring Injur...

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What are some of the best ways to complement team sport practice from an intu...

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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.