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Hold the Sports Drink: Hydrating and Refueling Youth Athletes for Success!
We know that nutrition plays an essential role in peak athletic performance, but what does that mean when it comes to the best drinks for…
Defining and Applying Load, Force, Velocity, Acceleration, and Power to VBT
What’s the latest on VBT? It turns out what’s old is new again, as Coach Bryan Mann explains what he’s been doing with force-velocity profiling…
6 Mental Skills to Get the Most out of Your Athletes
Resilience coach Matthew Caldaroni shares his crash course for getting the most out of athletes using techniques such as triggers and planned mental breaks. Applying…
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…
Why Close Grip Barbell Snatches Are Just Hype
We’d assumed snatching with narrow grip would fade away. Instead, the trend is growing and needs to be squashed. The…
Revolutionizing the Jump Squat
Former NFL linebacker Brady Poppinga discusses how he overcame the limits of the traditional jump squat for performance training and…
How Basketball Players Can (Safely) Add Inches to Their Vertical Jump
After an athlete has trained their specific jumping abilities and reached their ceiling, there are very limited gains to be…
Earning the Back Squat
The back squat can often stymie athletes and coaches coming to it late in the game, especially if steps were…
How to Rewire an Athlete’s Nervous System
Coach Matt Cooper explains how the NeuFit Neubie electrical muscle stimulation device differs from other EMS products on the market.…
Racers vs. Trainers: Does Maximal Speed Work Always Maximize Results?
Sprinting at actual (not perceived) maximal velocity is not necessary to get faster, and doing it regularly in training may…
The Accurate Identification of Problems
To develop a solution, we obviously first need to identify the problem. But how do we do that accurately? Stu…