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Weightlifting Progressions Even XL & Long-Limbed Athletes Can Perform
Coach Brendon Ziegler presents a detailed article on weightlifting progressions for athletes, especially long-limbed ones like basketball players. He includes tweaks and variations especially for…
Home Training for Sprinters: A Practical Guide
Gabriel Mvumvure, assistant coach for sprints and hurdles at Brown University, presents the home workouts and exercise diagrams that he provides his athletes to maintain…
Building and Creating Trust with Coaches and Athletes
Move past ingrained misconceptions and maximize your sports performance efforts by building trust with sport coaches and athletes. Coach Mark Hoover lays out steps to…
Athletic Development for Mom and Pop Coaches
Many youth coaches are parent volunteers looking to help their children and other kids learn a sport and stay fit and healthy. Too often they…
Can We Finally Ditch Sport-Specific Strength Training?
If training causes adaptations and enhances qualities that make athletes better at their sport, it is sport-specific. How we understand and communicate this concept is…
High Performance Library: “Second Set of Eyes”
Coaches, especially head coaches, are experts in helping athletes meet high performance goals. Too often, this means coaches neglect critical…
Just a Coach in the Strength and Conditioning Profession
While Coach Jim Ferris is happy to see the strength and conditioning profession expanding, he has concerns over the growing…
Can the Play-Practice-Play Model Rejuvenate U.S. Soccer?
U.S. Soccer introduced the play-practice-play (PPP) model as a template for coaches to engage youth players through experiential learning and…
How to Improve Your Athletes Instantly with Biofeedback
Technology doesn’t make a coach’s job obsolete, it makes us more effective and productive. This article shows how adding simple…
7 Tactics to Coach Kids as Kids (and Not Miniature Adults)
While all coaches know that kids are not miniature adults, when it comes to training, many coaches still rely on…
Energy System Development Solutions for Baseball Pitchers
Coach Zach Dechant believes that any talk of baseball and energy systems should start and stop with alactic development. Read…
High-Performance Culture—What to Look for and How to Deliver
High-performance programs are about the culture of a group of amazing humans who always act as role models for athletes…