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6-Week Off-Season Training Program for Elite Youth Soccer: A High-Low Approach
Elite youth soccer players at developmental academies play nearly year-round, with short breaks June-July and during December. In this article, Coach Ryan Cotter presents RSL…
How to Save Your Job in Strength and Conditioning
These days, it can often seem like sport coaches and strength and conditioning coaches don’t work for the same team. And when these coaches come…
Achieving the Summation of Forces with Medicine Ball Training
Medicine balls, especially those with a heavier load, continuously stress the proper order of the muscles and limbs involved in a movement to create maximum…
To Lift or Not to Lift: The Rewards and Risks of Game-Day Lifting
Game-day lifting can provide extra nervous system awakening for experienced athletes whose typical profiles don’t require extra volume or additional intensity. For developing athletes, game-day…
6 Ways to Save Youth Sports from Ruining Kids
Eventually, today’s youth athletes will become tomorrow’s sport elites. Before that happens, however, Coach Sean Smith believes that a lot needs to change in youth…
Barriers to Championship Performances
ALTIS Head Coach Dan Pfaff shares his collection of thoughts and observations acquired through 40 plus years of coaching and…
Detraining: The Loss of Training-Induced Adaptations in the Short Term
Athletes will face interruptions in their training at some point or another. In some cases, injuries occur. Some are very…
What I Learned From the 2016 Men’s Squash World Championship
Squash requires exceptional levels of athleticism. In a skill based sport, physical fitness won’t take players to the top, but…
The Art of Recovery
For an athlete to regularly perform quality training sessions or to peak for competition, the progression of training stimuli must…
Fast Food vs. Sport Supplements for Post-Exercise Glycogen Recovery
A 2015 study compared the intake of fast food products and sports supplements post-workout to determine whether they provided adequate…
RunScribe Instructions for CSV File Export
RunScribe instructions on how to export all of the raw metrics for every stride to a CSV file. A tech-savvy…
The Use of GPS Technology in Team Sports
In contact sports like football, coaches using GPS can read real-time tackle and impact information instead of, or in addition…