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.

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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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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The Forgotten Plantar Flexor: Training the Soleus

Most coaches believe that the calves get enough training with sprints, jump landings, and plyometrics, and may even add standing calf raises to a program, but none of these movements help train the soleus. Brandon Pigg explains why this plantar flexor muscle is important, especially to help reduce knee injury risk in athletes.

Running With Intent: 7 Reasons Why Tempo Work Supercharges an Athlete’s Ability to Sprint!

Strength and conditioning coach Mike Whiteman explains the importance of tempo training, submaximal development, and mental discipline when training sprint athletes.

A Bias Toward Speed? Breaking Down the Sprinting Cycle

Using data from the top female and male sprinters at the 2017 100m World Championships Finals, Owen McNally and Jonas Dodoo at Speedworks delves into frontside and backside mechanics, hip flexion and extension, touchdown and takeoff, and ground contact time and airtime to really examine speed and strategy.