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15 Things to Remember If You Love Your Child-Athlete
Parents usually have good intentions when it comes to supporting their son or daughter in playing sports, but they often lack the education and awareness…
How Setting Department Procedures and Policies Can Improve Athlete Safety
Plans and procedures create professional guardrails to improve performance and athlete safety. Coach Greene shares how to transition new athletes to your university program and…
You Got a Head Coaching Job…Now What?
Despite your years of education and experience, are you actually prepared to be in charge? In examining his own mistakes, Coach Carmen Pata provides a…
The 1080 Best Practices and Article Anthology
This anthology collects articles on SimpliFaster that highlight best practices for training with the Sprint, Quantum, and Syncro from 1080 Motion. Including work from Carl…
What Needs to Change with U.S. Soccer Clubs
Soccer continues to advance in both talent and popularity in the U.S., but there is still work to do. Coach Eric Udelson details various issues…
The Top 5 Flywheel Sports Performance Exercises
Coach Shane Davenport presents his top five flywheel exercises for sports performance, including the specific reason he recommends them, how…
5 Keys to Training the High School Decathlete and Heptathlete
With proper planning, organization, and communication, high school decathletes and heptathletes can be huge assets to any high school program.…
The Three Building Blocks of a High-Performance Culture
The relevance and value of culture cannot be overstated. Here, ALTIS explains why the first step towards building and maintaining…
7 Principles of High School Track and Field to Guide Coaches in All Sports
While all coaches run their teams differently, these seven fundamental principles offer a glimpse of the ideals for track and…
What Can Penalty Shoot-Outs Teach Us About the Relay?
Ultimately, what gets done in practice—as well as what doesn’t—carries over into competition. Craig Pickering considers the way that potential…
How to Plan the Off-Season in Canadian University Football Part 2: Summer and In-Season Training
After winter training, with summer just around the corner, Canadian football programs transition to sport-specific athletic development activities. This second…
A Protocol for Two-Dimensional Running Gait Analysis
While 3D motion capture is the gold standard for movement analysis, if your clinic, club, or team doesn’t have the…