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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 on coordination, and just become…
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 admittedly funny looking, the variety…
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 four tips to quickly get…
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 coaches. This includes drill sets,…
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 of child athletes going through…
Knowledge Streams: Creating Process-Driven Sports Therapists
ALTIS performance therapy interns learn that the process of becoming a well-rounded therapist begins with the utilization of three knowledge…
Popular Articles
How to Use Data to Create Realistic Training Sessions
By failing to shift the focus of training from individual skills to a practice that better represents competition, are we…
Conditioning for Golf: Does Anyone Know What It Is?
To define conditioning for golf, start with sport performance. What are golf’s physiological demands on the body? Coach Chris Finn…
Romanian Deadlifts – Fixing Technique and Programming Smarter
At its heart, the Romanian deadlift may be a simple hip hinge movement, but it can also be an enduring…
Asymmetrical Training and Variable Loading for Sports Performance
Sports—particularly team sports—demand that athletes create force in a variety of planes with asymmetrical forces. Traditional training methods that lean…
Breakaway Running & Debate—The Politics of Strength Training for Speed
As coaches, our approaches and concepts may not be perfect, but by sharing our ideas without completely dismissing divergent points…
Equipment Needs for Setting Up a Youth Athletic Development Program
Since an athletic development program for youth age 13 and under is not the same as one for teens and…