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General Athletic Qualities ≠ Sport Specificity
As a former athlete and current coach, Kendall Green has dealt with the supposed performance pipeline of football players running track to get better at…
Beyond the Barbell – Powering Up Your Athletes Creatively
Coaches and athletes alike have turned to alternatives to the weight room when it came to training during the pandemic this past year. Brendan Thompson…
H.S. Track Coaches Are Only as Good as Their Cues (5 I Learned from Ken Clark)
Learning how to cue drills so that athletes understand and perform them correctly is definitely a skill. Coach Eugenia Bradshaw discusses five sprint drill cues…
You’re Not Broken, You’re Building
When athletes get injured, coaches and trainers need to address not just their physical injuries but often their psychological barriers as well. Coach Danny Foley,…
The Contact Grid Best Practices and Article Anthology
A compilation of all of the articles on SimpliFaster covering the MuscleLab contact grid, covering best practices, data monitoring, troubleshooting, hands-on applications, and more.
Power and Its Elusive Identity
How can performance professionals apply academic research into power in training their athletes? First, coaches, trainers, and others in the…
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What Can Cheese Teach Us About Performance?
Blaming the athlete will not achieve error-free performance. Former Olympic athlete Craig Pickering explains why treating errors as systemic problems…
Bounce Gone Bad! 7 Common Pitfalls in Plyometric Programming
Mike Whiteman details some of the mistakes coaches make when using plyometric exercises to improve speed. Learn more about the…
The Role of the Arms in Sprinting
What does sport science say about the contribution of the arms to sprinting? Coach Carl Valle delves into this mixed…
To Drag the Toes (or Not) at the Start of a Sprint
While there are extremely successful sprinters who drag the toes, there are also great sprinters who don’t. Coach John Makell…
What’s in Your Shoe? A Look at Plantiga’s AI-Powered Insole
Where is the industry on the promise of wearable technology for athlete’s feet? Dr. Matt Jordan takes us on the…
Sports Technology: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
For a variety of reasons, many coaches and teams enter into the sports technology buying process blindly, without necessarily knowing…