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A Coach’s Guide to Creating Your Own Speed and Agility Program
What are the components of a good speed and agility program? Coach Jason Feairheller takes an in-depth look at warm-ups, drills, and movement quality, as…
The New PUSH Portal: Key Applications and Overview
Effective training management requires time-efficient processes that encourage meaningful communication between coaches and athletes. The PUSH Portal does all of this while allowing flexibility for…
How to Gain Speed with Wearable Resistance in Warm-Ups
Wearable resistance may offer a way to improve, or at least maintain, in-season speed, power, stamina, and change of direction skills by simply engaging in…
Let’s Take It Outside: Get Faster Using a Simple Upright Sprint Warm-Up
Coach Adrian Guyer changed up part of his athletes’ warm-ups this past summer, leading to improvements in technique, timing, fluidity, bounce, and speed. Read on…
What Your Players Will Wish You’d Told Them About Social Media (When Their Next Offer Is Rescinded)
Do the players you’re coaching know how to manage their social media accounts properly? When a high school athlete takes misstep on social media, they…
In-Season Training for the Football/Track Athlete
Have you thought about using in-season football training to get ready for track season? From a track coach’s perspective, it…
3 Things S&C Coaches Should Require from Their Supervisors
All strength and conditioning coaches should receive three things from their supervisors: a timely observation, a clear definition of their…
How to Build Strength and Power for Endurance Athletes
While strength and power are recognized as key qualities to develop when training sprinters and jumpers, endurance athletes can also…
Bring Speed into the Weight Room with the HiTrainer
Speed work is often difficult to individualize in a team setting. The HiTrainer self-powered treadmill frees up turf space for…
Using Pre-Season Testing to Support Decisions That Matter
With any performance test, there’s a lot of very helpful information to unpack once the athlete completes the test. Coach…
How Should We Approach Habitual Caffeine Use by Athletes?
While researchers have examined how a pre-training or competition dose of caffeine directly impacts sporting performance, we need a wider…
Power Lift Roundtable: Game-Day Lifting for Baseball Players
Drs. Andy Fry and David Szymanski weigh the pros and cons of game-day lifting for baseball players at the high…