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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 injury among sprinters.
Enhancing Speed with Plyometrics
How can you use plyometrics to improve different facets of your athletes’ sprinting? Brendan Thompson looks at plyo prescription and how to best determine which…
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 Graham Eaton has seven suggestions…
Improving Serving Speed for the Volleyball Athlete
Improve the serving speed of your volleyball athletes with the help of Keith Ferrara’s training program outline that focuses on sprinting and strength training, as…
The Structure of Sports Science Revolutions
How does progress in sports science lead to actual change in a sport? Much too often, begrudgingly on the part of gatekeepers who seek to…
Maximal Sprint Speed: Evaluating 10m Flys Under Different Conditions
Coach Rad Misko ran a pilot experiment with one athlete to measure maximal speed times using the 10m fly. Discover…
Popular Articles
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…
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…
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…
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…
10 Things Youth Sports Coaches Must Know About Child Development
The role of youth sports coach can be very fulfilling, but it also bears responsibility for the care and well-being…