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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…
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…
Rethinking Body Composition in Sport: Moving Beyond Totals
We need to consider ideal body composition in the context of the demands of the athlete’s sport, their playing position,…
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…
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…
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…