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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What Your Players Will Wish You’d Told Them About Social Media (When Their Next Offer Is Rescinded)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…
4 Training Mistakes I Made as an Athlete
Hindsight is a gift, especially when coaches can look at past mistakes they made as athletes and ensure that their athletes don’t make the same…
Lessons Learned Over a Professional Career
Over Rob Panariello’s 40-year career, he has worked with an impressive roster of strength and conditioning coaches, business professionals, and medical practitioners. While he developed…
3 Simple Ways to Add Variety in Training Without Abandoning Your Principles
While hard work can be its own reward, athletes often get bored performing the same exercises day after day. Coach Mike Snowden suggests three simple…
Developing Youth Sport Speed in a Team Setting
Speed training in the team setting is one of the most challenging and rewarding experiences for today’s physical preparation 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…
Competing to Coaching: 4 Common Coaching Mistakes by Former Athletes
It can be extremely rewarding to coach a sport you used to play, and help other athletes experience the sense…
Horizontal Jumps: The Technical Model
In this excerpt from an online ALTIS educational program, Coach “Boo” Schexnayder explores 11 key principles that should guide every…
The Paradox of a Hammer—Cracking Motor Pathways to Hard & Soft Skills
The well-known picture of a blacksmith swinging his hammer focuses on the variations of the paths the hammer takes, but…
10 Reasons Your Gym Should Buy a kBox
If you are a coach dedicated to making your athletes better, you should know there is strong evidence that flywheel…