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Budget-Friendly Solutions for High School S&C Coaches
High school coach Kevin Consoles discusses his favorite equipment and performance tests for coaches on a tight budget.
Why Categorizing Plyometrics as Intensive or Extensive Isn’t Specific Enough
While labeling plyometrics as either intensive or extensive is useful to categorize these movements, this framework doesn’t go far enough to provide coaches with the…
Optimal Off-Season Training for Volleyball
In six years of training volleyball teams, Keith Ferrara’s players haven’t suffered a single upper-body injury. Read his off-season training plan to learn how to…
Roll Tide: The New Model
How important are speed and a multi-sport background for success in college football? Coach Tony Holler and Tracking Football bring the receipts. Analyzing the makeup…
Faster Speeds, Better Times: Sprint Training for Distance Runners
Do you coach distance runners? Read why Coach Michael Farthing believes speed training will have a profound effect on your runners regardless of their experience…
How SHREDmill Transformed Our Training
Introducing SHREDmill to his high school athletic program has helped David Neill improve the speed of nearly every student. He…
A Review of GymAware’s “FLEX” Unit: A Portable Bar Speed Monitoring Device
Joel Smith, a collegiate S&C coach and found of JustFlySports, took the new GymAware FLEX bar speed monitoring device for…
Old-School Strategies Die Hard
Old-school strategies die hard because they work. They don’t endure just because of a stubbornness to change. Contrary to popular…
The ACWR: Not an Injury Predictor, but a High-Performance Tool
ACWR is an extremely effective tool for monitoring athlete workloads and periodizing practice plans. It does not, however, predict predisposition…
Summer Training for High School Strength and Conditioning Coaches
As we all know, athletic training doesn’t stop in the summer. Strength and conditioning coaches may even get busier during…
Where Do We Start ’Em? Beginning GPP with the 1×20 (Plus Crawls, Carries, and Drags)
Today’s developing athletes lack baseline skills and have dwindling physicality. To change this trend, Pete Arroyo blends progressive loading and…
Tethered Running: Not the Tool We Deserve, but a Tool We Need
As Coach Nick Gies details in this article, tethered running has many benefits, especially for confined athletes. While you shouldn’t…