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When and When Not to Use Track Drills
Coaches use drills to reinforce the movement concepts they teach, so it’s important to understand why a drill is used. Coach Parno breaks down the…
A Simple Plan for Educating High School Athletes on Nutrition & Performance
Are you relegating nutrition talks to soundbites because of lack of time? When it comes teaching nutrition, full-time consistency beats part-time intensity. Coach Missy Mitchell-McBeth…
The NFL Combine 2.0
While Coach Justin Ochoa enjoys the NFL Combine, he believes some of its drills can use an update to more accurately assess an athlete’s skill…
A Practical Guide for Using Force Plates in Elite Sports
Using force plates can seem complex and confusing. It really isn’t. Coach Schuster shares practical information on protocols, setup, logistics, and data use to help…
Off-Season Tips for High School Athletes Training on Their Own
Many high school athletes go through their summer without a lot of structured training. Because Coach Eaton believes consistently solid training in these important weeks…
How One Club is Changing Youth Soccer
How would it look if a player didn’t have to commit complete availability for one sport and was free to…
Popular Articles
ThermoHuman – Applied Science for Sports Medicine and Performance
Thermography has been viewed as a promising technique, but not a best practice, and Javier Arnaiz Lastras of ThermoHuman aims…
10 Tips to Guide Young Strength Coaches Through the Interview Process
The strength and conditioning field is more competitive than ever, with more and more professionals competing for the same jobs…
2018 Year in Review
At SimpliFaster, we aim to be both forward-focused and forward-thinking, and we’ve got big things in store in 2019. Before…
How the Rise of Machine Learning Is Impacting Sport
Historically, getting an edge in sports focused mainly on improving training techniques. More recently, we’ve seen an increased focus on…
Kaleidoscopic Coaching: Seeing the Runner’s ‘Elephant in the Room’
How a runner looks while running is often due to the traditional way we view mechanics. But if we alter…
10 Unanswered Questions in Sports Science for 2018 (Part 3)
In this final part of a three-part series on 10 questions sports science could help to answer, Coach Pickering looks…