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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…

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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…

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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…

Helping Hand

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…

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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…

Sports Specificity
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23 Creative Ideas to Benefit Your Sponsors

When thinking about sponsored athletes, do images of logos on clothing come to mind? While logo placement is definitely a…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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Golf Sport Science – The Evolution of Speed and Power

Chris Finn discusses the shift in golf from “good ol’ boy” science to an acceptance and understanding of the value…

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What Strength Coaches Should Know About Physical Education

While interest in physical education is currently high, many people view it in the context of sport performance training instead…

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Building Game-Changing Metabolic Power with Muscle Oximetry

While muscle oximetry devices are most often utilized by endurance athletes to monitor steady state or repeated bouts of exercise,…

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