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Building Game-Changing Metabolic Power with Muscle Oximetry
While muscle oximetry devices are most often utilized by endurance athletes to monitor steady state or repeated bouts of exercise, considerable evidence has provided a…
Strength Continuum in Resistance Training: Answering the ‘Why’
The Strength Continuum in resistance training is a common means of categorizing the core subsections of strength—which incorporate power, velocity, and force—during the concentric phase…
What Sprinters Should Be Doing Instead of Hip Thrusts
Research and real-world evidence disputes the claims of those promoting the hip thrust, which has little value to a sprinter and may cause injury. There…
Electrical Muscle Stimulation: Return-to-Play Applications and Strategies
If Coach Derek Hansen had a wish, it would be that every health, wellness, rehabilitation, and performance practitioner could have a high-quality electrical muscle stimulation…
Plyometric Essentials for the High School Track Coach
In a high school athletic season, plyometrics are certainly not the only focus. Instead of trying to implement too many things at once, Coach Graham…
Using the 1080 Quantum to Develop Power in Sport Training
Trainers and coaches are restricted when developing an athlete’s power using traditional equipment, because of both load and speed issues,…
Off-Season Power Development Using Heavy Split Squats
The hand supported rear foot elevated split squat has become a staple for us. It has exceeded all expectations and…
‘Science’ and the Barbell Hip Thrust
As evidenced in the recent debate over the efficacy of the barbell hip thrust, science depends on people and their…
Transitioning to a New Coaching Position
Young coaches typically move from position to position as they climb the career ladder, and the moves mean new locations,…
Building Athletic Freaks: American Football In-Season Training
This is the challenge I face with football players during the fall: competing adaptations between the sport and maintenance…
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…
How to Individualize Training Programs the Right Way
Coaches may say or believe they individualize programs when they actually don’t. Coach Bob Alejo explains what it means to…