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What the Sport of Swimming Can Teach Strength Coaches
S&C coaches often look to track and field for speed and power development in athletes, but they seem unaware of the potential offered by the…
High-Performance Library: The Strategy Book
Coaches, athletes, and other sport professionals can learn a thing or two from the business world, especially how to develop strategies to better inform their…
How to Support Mental Toughness and Resilience in Athletes
Coaches play a huge role in helping athletes to be aware of their emotions and training them to manage those emotions. By supporting your athletes…
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…
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…
Changing with the Game: Sprint-Based Football
What exactly is sprint-based football? Tony Holler explains how his Feed the Cats mindset applies to training faster, fresher players…
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Keep Getting Faster on Your Own – Four More Weeks of Speed Training
Coach Tyler Germain presents another four-week speed training plan for those athletes still not back on the track with their…
4 Ways to Get ‘Football Fast’…Fast
With everything that’s been going on, are your athletes ready for football season? Coach Chris Korfist shares four techniques and…
3 Keys for Using a Neural Warm-Up to Stimulate Athletic Development
There are easy ways to access your brain to free tissue, increase mobility, potentiate movement, reduce potential injury stressors, work…
Prancing and Galloping – Two Under-Utilized Sprint Drills
Prancing and galloping exercises are a way to shift focus back to long-term athletic development in the speed world. While…
Solo Speed Training in 700 Words
Are you looking for a speed workout of 25-40 minutes? Coach Tony Holler’s got your back with this straightforward plan…
The Surprising Ergogenic Effects of… Taste?!
Explore the influences of sweet and bitter tastants on performance, how thermal tastants can influence our capacity to exercise, and…