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Confessions of an Instability Buff (and How I Now Train Balance for Sport)
A decade ago, unstable surface training was all the rage, and Coach Chris Finn was one of its biggest fans. Fast forward to the present,…
Considerations for the Director of Sports Medicine & Athletic Performance
As colleges across the U.S. work to merge their various independent athletic departments, there’s also been an integration of the sports medicine and athletic performance…
An Athlete’s Perspective on Sports Performance Training
As a former college soccer player and almost physical therapist, Eric Udelson is fascinated by human physiology and human performance, especially in sports. Here, he…
A Strength Coach’s Guide to Working with Team Coaches
If strength and conditioning coaches want to be able to guide a successful program, we need to get our sport coaches on board. Coach Mark…
A Coach’s Five-Point Game Plan for Summer
People love summer for a variety of reasons. For coaches, it’s a great time to make progress with both athlete and professional development. Coach Carmen…
3 Ways to Avoid Muscle Cramps
Do dehydration and a lack of electrolytes cause cramps? Probably not. Muscle cramps are more likely caused by neuromuscular fatigue.…
The Jumps Roundtable #2: Building a Technical Model
While jumps can be very technical events, technical models are often difficult to create because of variations from athlete to…
The Jumps Roundtable #2: Reducing and Managing Injuries
No coach wants their athletes to get injured, but what can you do to prevent it from happening? In Part…
The Jumps Roundtable #2: Tapering and Peaking
Coach Nick Newman asks a roundtable of eight international jumps coaches to reveal their peaking strategies, including the way that…
The Jumps Roundtable #2: Plyometric Training and Teaching
Plyometrics are an important tool in a jump coaches toolbox. In this second part of our Jumps Roundtable Edition #2,…
The Jumps Roundtable #2: Working with New Athletes
Working with new athletes who have high-level talent is a different experience than new athletes with little or no performance…
Hamstring Injury – Do You Know the Odds and Can You Beat Them?
Hamstring injuries are very common in sports that require running. In professional soccer, hamstring injuries account for roughly one in…