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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…
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…
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…
4 Speed Training Lessons with High School Athletes
In Superman’s “Bizzaro World,” everything is the opposite of what it should be. Chris Korfist examines what he calls the…
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…
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…