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On Purpose: Asking the Right Questions to Deliver the Right Training
Understand the purpose of your training program and communicate the purpose to your athletes. A program works when the athlete understands the purpose of each…
How to Build Strength and Power for Endurance Athletes
While strength and power are recognized as key qualities to develop when training sprinters and jumpers, endurance athletes can also benefit from programming that targets…
Bring Speed into the Weight Room with the HiTrainer
Speed work is often difficult to individualize in a team setting. The HiTrainer self-powered treadmill frees up turf space for high value coaching while easily…
Using Pre-Season Testing to Support Decisions That Matter
With any performance test, there’s a lot of very helpful information to unpack once the athlete completes the test. Coach Pata moves past the testing…
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 conversation as to how caffeine…
Shifting the Paradigm of Percentage-Based S&C to VBT Across All Sports in a High School Setting
Briarwood Christian Schools has an elite athletic training program for students at all performance levels. Recently, the program began a…
Popular Articles
The Best Ways to Get Buy-In
The ability to influence and implement training strategies is dependent on your ability to get head coaches and/or athletic staff…
The Effect of Monitoring on the Training Process
Monitoring is not as straightforward is it seems. In this fourth installment of the Sports Science Roundtable series, seven coaches…
The Relevance of Periodization
Coach Daniel Martinez asked a roundtable of coaches and trainers about the importance of periodization to their training schedule and…
The Challenges of the Work Environment for Coaches and Trainers
Not all workplace challenges are the same, even for coaches and trainers. In this second in a series of Sports…
How Coaches and Trainers Define Success
It can be difficult to define the success of a coach or trainer beyond the obvious measure of athlete performance.…
Voice from the Void: The Disappearing Middle Ground of Coaching
Rather than just accept the growing polarization in society today, Coach Kyle Hierholzer advocates for the value of the middle…