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Athletes Are Not Robots: The Fallacies of Mental Toughness
Coach James De Lacey doesn’t believe mental toughness has anything to do with military-style training or complete obedience to a coach’s directions. Instead, he views…
The Four Pillars of Distance Running
Successful distance runners rely on a host of skills and abilities beyond just aerobic conditioning. Coach Jeremy Duplissey looks at the importance of speed, strength/mobility,…
Training Your Substitutes in Soccer
A soccer match is the largest stimulus for players each week in-season, so what happens for the substitute athletes who don’t get to play? Coach…
21 Essential Training Tips for Strength Coaches
While many S&C coaches have different but successful approaches and training styles, there are some concepts and techniques out there that need correction. Coach Shane…
Weight Room Exercise Modifications for the Post-Rehabilitated Athletic Shoulder
Rob Panariello presents some of the weight room strategies successfully utilized over the years to assist in the post-shoulder-rehabilitation athlete’s training and return them to…
An Athlete’s Guide To Surviving Christmas
Christmas is great. You get presents, you see your family, you do fun stuff together, you eat nice food, and…
Developing Efficient Technique and Propulsive Force for Swimmers
The ability to measure force development on land and in the water can help coaches find asymmetries between the right…
The Most Important Class a High School Student Can Take
Even in the best of times, Coach Micah Kurtz believes weight training class is the most important class for high…
The 400 Is a Sprint
Does speed training for the 400m seem counterintuitive? It’s not, because speed improves race times even more so than endurance.…
Data-Driven Coaching in the Pole Vault
The World Athletics biomechanical data reports on pole vaulting offer critical perspectives which the naked eye can rarely capture as…
Simple Steps for Raising Faster Kids
How do you raise faster kids? As Coach Tyler Germain explains, by basically encouraging what they do naturally—playing, running, jumping,…
What Can COVID-19 Teach Us About Off-Season Programming?
The coronavirus lockdowns and shelter-in-place orders forced coaches to develop creative strategies to remotely train their athletes. Coach Pete Burridge…