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Just a Coach in the Strength and Conditioning Profession
While Coach Jim Ferris is happy to see the strength and conditioning profession expanding, he has concerns over the growing lack of education, experience, and…
Can the Play-Practice-Play Model Rejuvenate U.S. Soccer?
U.S. Soccer introduced the play-practice-play (PPP) model as a template for coaches to engage youth players through experiential learning and an athlete-centric approach. But if…
How to Improve Your Athletes Instantly with Biofeedback
Technology doesn’t make a coach’s job obsolete, it makes us more effective and productive. This article shows how adding simple feedback technology can help you…
7 Tactics to Coach Kids as Kids (and Not Miniature Adults)
While all coaches know that kids are not miniature adults, when it comes to training, many coaches still rely on exercises and practices that are…
Energy System Development Solutions for Baseball Pitchers
Coach Zach Dechant believes that any talk of baseball and energy systems should start and stop with alactic development. Read on to find out why…
Cannibalizing Our Own: How Fear, Ego, and Insecurity Are Eroding Opportunities for Strength and Conditioning Coaches
The strength and conditioning profession currently suffers from too many coaches putting their own agendas ahead of the success of…
Fatigue Profiling with Athletes During the Competitive Season
With very little time allowed to train in-season, baseline assessments provide great results and prevent many overtraining situations. They also…
How One Club is Changing Youth Soccer
How would it look if a player didn’t have to commit complete availability for one sport and was free to…
How 5 Generous Mentors Ignited My Coaching Career
Coaching is a process of learning, distilling, and applying methods from those who came before, and Hunter Charneski examines how…
4 Development Stages for the College Athlete
Many incoming college athletes need more work from a developmental standpoint. This developmental model consists of four stages to progress…
A Quick Lesson on Testosterone for Athletes and Coaches
Testosterone mediates long-term adaptations to exercise, affects mood and motivation, and–when training is designed to maximize an athlete’s testosterone response–leads…
Is the Polish Bleacher Bound the “Dream Drill” for Sprinters?
If you had to eliminate every sprint drill from your training program except one, what would be your keeper? Coach…