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.

Exploring Weightlifting Sport Science with Tim ...

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Sport physiologist and performance coach Tim Suchomel joins this week’s Freel...

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An Ecological Dynamics Approach to Agility ...

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In competition, an athlete responds to the shifting environment around them—s...

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Sport Science, Sleep, and Sport Performance Psy...

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This week’s Freelap Friday Five features a discussion with high-performance e...

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Cricket Sport Science for Strength and Conditio...

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Curious to learn more about how the sport of cricket can help your training p...

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Connect the Weight Room to the Field with Matt ...

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Eager to create more robust and resilient athletes? This Friday Five is with ...

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How to Nurture Jumping Skills and Athletic Abil...

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Committed to developing better jumping athletes in your program? This Friday ...

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Expert Insight on Weightlifting for Athletic De...

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Interested in how to appropriately and successfully integrate weightlifting i...

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How to Run a College Program from the Bottom up...

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Curious about running a college strength and conditioning program? Keith Ferr...

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How to Merge LTAD Concepts in a Modern High Sch...

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Determined to develop athletes with timeless methods and techniques in a high...

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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.