Blog
With over 1,700 articles written by 300+ coaches, scientists, and performance experts, the SimpliFaster blog is your go-to resource for smarter training. Performance professionals share real-world insights, data-driven methods, and practical tools to allow you to stay current and sharpen your approach.
Our articles help you think deeper and coach smarter.
Featured
Training Volume, Intensity, and Density in a Masters Sprinter
Training as a masters athlete is different than training when you’re younger. With his own training as a guide, Coach David Maris looks at the…
Creating a System to Individualize Training in a Group Setting
How can you efficiently optimize individualized training in a group setting? Biomechanist Ashton King presents an assessment and bucketing system for athletes of all levels.
Speed, Strength, Power, Potentiation: Four Unique Uses for Resisted Sprints
If you program resisted sprints merely to condition your athletes, you’re not taking full advantage of them. Coach Kyle Davey looks at four distinct uses…
How the 1×20 Won This Skeptic Over
Coaches at all levels, from high school to collegiate to private sector, use the 1×20 program in their training as more than a building block…
How to Develop Unstoppable Kicking Power
Self-defense instructor and strength and conditioning coach Alex Chrysovergis teaches the three basic and six specific exercises you need to develop devastating kicking power.
Are Elite Athletes ‘Healthy’?
Is elite sport, and the athletes who participate in it, “healthy”? Coach Craig Pickering explores this question by focusing first…
Popular Articles
“True” Single-Leg Training: 3 Exercises for Speed, Strength, and Performance
Coach Charley Gould breaks down the unique qualities of “true” unilateral leg training, distinguishing those exercises in which the working…
Two Myths That Will Not Go Away When It Comes to Rehabbing an Athlete’s Knee
In a recent conversation with a group of physical therapists, athletic trainers, and strength and conditioning coaches, the subject matter…
How to Return to Strength Training (A Guide for Athletes and Practitioners)
When allowed to return to the gym from COVID-19 quarantines, Coach Jacob James of Crusader Strength knows his combat athletes…
Specialized Athletes Need GPP—and Lots of It
How should strength and conditioning coaches tackle the challenge of training youth athletes who specialize in a year-round sport? Coach…
When Sports Return: Will Great Performance or Injury Rule?
We have time now to prepare our athletes against injury and ensure they’re ready for competition once COVID-19 measures are…
From Journals to Touch Screens – Is S&C Programming Software Taking Over?
Without the ability to log workouts electronically, data can—and typically does—get lost. Strength programming software allows data to be saved…