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1080 Sprint: Four Essential Tips You Won’t Find in the Manual
1080 Motion provides users numerous educational and technical resources to make best use of their tools, but what insider hacks can you only learn with…
Running Through Time: An Athlete’s Story of Resilience and Recovery
The epidemic of ACL injuries hasn’t just taken a physical toll on young female athletes—the social and emotional impact can be just as devastating. College…
Maximizing Success in the Weight Room: A College Strength Coach’s Playbook
Based on prior experience with multiple weight room technologies, University of Colorado S&C Coach Steve Englehart now relies on the Output Sports system for velocity-based…
RTP Module #3: Force Plates and Decision Making—A Conversation with Brian Buck
The learning curve to properly implement force plates can appear daunting for coaches just getting started with the technology. Coach Danny Foley continues his webinar…
How to Create an In-Season Training Program for College Baseball Players
The density of the college baseball schedule creates a challenge for coaches and athletes to train in a way that will consistently enhance the athletes’…
The Versatility of 5-3-1: Applying the “First Set Last” Concept
Coach Pete Arroyo demonstrates several ways to use the 5-3-1 program’s “First Set Last” concept to fill the necessary training…
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Strength & Conditioning for Non-Strength Coaches
Leveraging 15 years of experience across all academic levels, Coach David Neill kicks off an article series dedicated to sharing…
Rediscover Wave Loading: Program Design for Speed and Power
For athletes to translate strength gains into speed gains, those increases in strength need to not correspond to excessive increases…
180° Cut Testing: A Superior Standard for Change of Direction
After years of training athletes to succeed on standard Combine tests, Coach Steve Breitenstein realized that choreographing the execution of…
Complications & Rising Action: Steps 1-6 in a Sprint
Telling the story of speed, Coach Chris Korfist progresses from the opening step of a race to steps one through…
Creative Ways to Time Agility Drills with Freelap and Post to Your Scoreboard
Coach Kenny Hill takes the record, rank, publish concept from Feed the Cats one step further and posts speed times…
Reflectorless Laser Timing—Athletic Timing Reimagined
Chase Pfeiffer, founder of Dashr, introduces the company’s newest innovation: reflectorless laser timing. In addition to eliminating issues with pairing…