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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.
Dan Baker Responds to Velocity Based Training Round Table
Determining optimal power points for both strength-oriented and power-oriented exercises is a key metric. Measuring velocity is a vital part…
9 Things I’ve Learned from Speed Training in Adulthood
Coach Tyler Germain never thought he’d go back to sprinting in his 30s, but he has, and he loves it.…
High-Performance Library: The Next Big Thing
As Coach Craig Pickering points out, an athlete’s journey from talented youth to successful senior is not assured and is…
How to Train Intermediate to Advanced Athletes
In the previous installments of this series on how we move our athletes through our athletic “blocking” system, I went…
Deep Insight into Metabolic Strength and Repeated Speed
Knowing what happens “behind the scenes” with athletes is useful to help them develop repeated sprint ability. Here, Dr. John…
How to Manipulate “The Big 3” Lifts for Your “Bigs”
No matter what level or setting you coach in, some amount of individualization is non-negotiable. This is especially true when…
Task Decomposition & Simplification: ALTIS “Need for Speed” (Excerpt)
What are the differences between a technique and a skill? How can coaches best develop game-relevant skills with their athletes?…