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Hooking Your High School Athletes on Intent and Technique with VBT
Velocity-based training can be used with all levels of high school athletes as long as they, and more importantly, their coaches, apply it correctly. Coach…
How Non-Elite Athletes Can Rehab Like a Pro with Kinvent
When rehabbing, non-elite athletes often don’t have access to the robust tools that elite athletes do. Alex Shafiro discusses how the Kinvent Kforce suite can…
A Modern Approach to Conditioning for Football
To condition athletes, coaches must understand what conditioning means for the athlete’s sport and position. Coach Joseph Guarascio presents a modern approach that looks at…
“Daily Vitamins” for Performance
Coach Austin McClinton presents his idea of “daily vitamins” for athletes—hits of micro sessions to implement into a physical preparation program. If you’re looking to…
35 Starting Variations to Blend Speed and Sport
Because sports are chaotic and unplanned, coaches need to move beyond the standard drills to develop athletes’ movement variability. Coach Graham Eaton has 35 variations…
No Practices? Go Get Faster Anyway (A Four-Week Speed Training Plan)
With schools closed, coaches can’t train their athletes. But those athletes are allowed to train on their own. To that…
Practical Methods for Designing Plyometric Progressions Based on RSI
When training with plyometrics, coaches need to prescribe the correct exercises in the correct doses. Ashton King demonstrates one way…
How to Become a Behind-the-Scenes Superhero
Mark Hoover explains why the relationships that strength and conditioning coaches develop with the parents of their student-athletes are so…
Developing Mentally Tough Athletes
How can you develop mentally tough athletes? Coach Cody Hughes looks at the mechanisms that can help create mental toughness…
Better Pelvic Positioning for Better Sprinting
Speed coach Kyle Davey explores the causes and fixes of anterior pelvic tilt that saps speed and increases risk of…
Enhancing Speed with Plyometrics
How can you use plyometrics to improve different facets of your athletes’ sprinting? Brendan Thompson looks at plyo prescription and…
Seven Training Considerations for High School High Hurdling
Perhaps more than in any other event, coaches of hurdlers really need to shift the focus to long-term development. Coach…