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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…
7 Exercises Missing in Traditional Strength and Core Training for Golf
Technology and research continue to evolve, making available new training modalities and methods not just for team sports, but sports like golf too. S&C Coach…
Should the Overhead Athlete (or Any Athlete) Lift Weights Overhead?
Is overhead exercise performance the latest “taboo” in the new millennium? If so, Robert Panariello doesn’t think it should be, and he explains why you…
Strength as a Spectrum: Applying Velocity Based Training in the 1×20 System
How can we track the positive effects of the 1×20 system? In a case study with two female athletes, Pete Arroyo measured the spectrum of…
Practical Ways to Reduce Muscle Injuries in Elite Sport
S&C coach and sports scientist Javier Arnaiz Lastras proposes measuring muscles directly with noninvasive means—thermography—a major paradigm shift in sports monitoring. He also presents additional…
Is It Time for Coaches to Rethink Velocity-Based Training?
Much of the way velocity-based training tech feedback is utilized today is rather stale, uncreative, and possibly not very transferable.…
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,…
Strength Continuum in Resistance Training: Answering the ‘Why’
The Strength Continuum in resistance training is a common means of categorizing the core subsections of strength—which incorporate power, velocity,…
What Sprinters Should Be Doing Instead of Hip Thrusts
Research and real-world evidence disputes the claims of those promoting the hip thrust, which has little value to a sprinter…
Electrical Muscle Stimulation: Return-to-Play Applications and Strategies
If Coach Derek Hansen had a wish, it would be that every health, wellness, rehabilitation, and performance practitioner could have…
Plyometric Essentials for the High School Track Coach
In a high school athletic season, plyometrics are certainly not the only focus. Instead of trying to implement too many…
5 Keys to Go from Writing Programs to Running ‘A Program’
Coach Carmen Pata points out that there is a huge difference between just programming and truly running a program. Here…