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Stress, Recover, Adapt: Strategies to Mitigate Performance Decrements
As performance coaches, skill coaches, and therapists, we must ensure our athletes are ready to recover, not to speed up recovery. If we train them…
A Case for Training Olympic Lifts in College Athletics
Athletes who can clean heavy and snatch heavy have great potential to hit harder, run faster, and jump higher. And what seems to be the…
5 Reasons to Adopt an Athlete-Centered Model of Training
During game play, a coach wants their athletes to be active problem-solvers, to correctly assess what occurs during the game, and to respond with the…
How Coaches Can Maximize Their Just Jump System
Even with the popularity of force plates and contact grids, the Just Jump contact mat still has plenty of value. Here are some pointers for…
Muscle Growth and Strength Training for Sports: How Much and for How Long?
There’s a very real possibility that increases in muscle size do not correlate well with increases in muscle strength. If true, this could mean that…
5 Years, 5 Lessons for Coaches Getting Started
Inspired by retrospective articles from Michael Boyle and other established coaches, Cole Hergott passes along five important lessons from his…
High-Volume Endurance Training: Risk vs. Benefit
While many coaches and trainers equate a higher volume of endurance training to elite caliber athletic performance, research doesn’t support…
Why Use Reflexive Performance Reset
When sprint coaches are haunted by hamstring injuries, we find ways to prevent them. Reflexive Performance Reset simply gets the…
Resisted Sprints and Post-Activation Potentiation
Post-activation potentiation (PAP) can improve sprint performance and is commonly used in practice and research. Although resisted sprinting at heavier…
The Use of RPE in Team Sports
The use of the RPE scale is growing in popularity in team sports because data collection is easy and accurately…
Building Better Jumpers: Jump Testing as Training
The idea of “knowledge of result” helps athletes determine whether what they are doing in training is working. Testing also…
Communication Is the Holy Grail: Training Insights From the Shop Floor
Coaching is much more than putting the best training programs together for your athletes. Coaching is also about making connections…