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A Protocol for Two-Dimensional Running Gait Analysis
While 3D motion capture is the gold standard for movement analysis, if your clinic, club, or team doesn’t have the necessary equipment or personnel, you…
US vs. UK Youth Development: How to Train Successful Endurance Athletes
There are stark differences between the US and UK youth cross-country training systems, neither of which are ideal. This article describes the strengths and weaknesses…
Make LTAD Central to Your Coaching
Long-term athletic development (LTAD) is a vital framework to ensure that all kids can grow, learn, and play to the best of their ability. This…
Competencies with Program Design for Sport and Health
In this second part of a two-piece series, Dr. Pat Davidson delves further into the objective biomechanics model, and provides readers with training movement biomechanics…
How to Develop Game-Breaking Speed
There is no substitute for raw speed in field sports. Understanding how, when, and what training modalities are best used for developing this game-breaking quality…
3 Non-Cliche Pieces of Professional Advice for All Young Coaches
Successful coaches need to build relationships that establish their professional authority and expand their networks. Those aren’t easy tasks, but…
Effectiveness and Efficiency in Sports Performance Programs
Performance may be driven by outputs, external cueing, and ultimately training load, but how we get there can require a…
Becoming Higher, Faster, Stronger Through Rest
Rest and regeneration are vitally important components of any training program, for both athletes and coaches. This article discusses the…
An Athlete’s Guide To Surviving Christmas
Christmas is great. You get presents, you see your family, you do fun stuff together, you eat nice food, and…
Jumps Roundtable: Training Setup and Programming Style Influences
All coaches have their own programming style and their own training setups. In this sixth and last roundtable discussion with…
Jumps Roundtable: Approach Accuracy
Jumps coaches have differing views when it comes to the issue of approach accuracy. SimpliFaster talked to eight of them…
Testing Protocols in Jump Training
While it’s important to assess an athlete’s level of readiness for event competition, coaches differ in the ways that they…