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NFL ACL Tears: A Critical Review of the Trends
A look at the data for the 2019 NFL pre-season shows a significant reduction in the number of ACL injuries as compared to the previous…
Getting the Most out of Your Movement Assessment
If your movement assessments aren’t moving the needle, there’s a chance that you’re using them for the wrong objectives. Sports performance coach Eric Schmitt looks…
5 Ways to Manage Travel Costs and Prepare for Success in Track & Field
Traveling as an emerging elite or semi-pro athlete is extremely challenging, especially considering the limited amount of sponsorship support available in track and field. The…
How to Program Recovery with a Plan and Purpose
Restoration and recovery for athletes can take many forms, but it should always be about doing something and not simply doing nothing. Coach Mike Whiteman…
Should American Football Use the Beep Test?
The beep test may be the best tool for measuring fitness in football players, says Coach Richardson. It offers objective data about the strength of…
Creating Your Own Training Process
Your starting point should be outcomes—how can you even begin to define a process without knowledge of what that process…
Taking an Acceleration-Based Approach to Performance and Return to Play
While there are many techniques and technologies directed at strengthening the hamstrings, Coach Derek Hansen explains why short sprints are…
Strength & Conditioning at the College and Pro Levels
While the fundamental goals for coaching at the pro and college levels are essentially the same, the strategies for achieving…
Autoregulation: The Pros and Cons When Training Athletes
Whether autoregulation is part of a training session or is the program itself, adjusting workloads to the individual athlete can…
Networking or NetWORKED? 11 Tips for Building Bridges the Right Way
A vocational drought that has plagued the strength and conditioning field for far too long is progressing faster than any…
Stride Length vs. Stride Frequency in Reaching Max Speed
We know that speed is a function of stride length and stride frequency. But which of the two qualities plays…
Are Closed Change of Direction Drills Useful for Developing Agility?
While most coaches have similar training protocols for strength, power, speed, and endurance, agility is a different story. Cameron Josse…