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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…
How to Deal with Adversity and Trust Your Process During a Difficult Season
No matter how experienced you are as a strength coach, nothing can prepare you for the challenges of dealing with a team that is suffering…
Budgeting for Omega-3 Supplements: What Sports Teams Should Know
While omega-3s are riding a wave of popularity in the sports world, especially for protection against traumatic brain injury, choosing which omega-3 supplement to buy…
Are Closed Change of Direction Drills Useful for Developing Agility?
While most coaches have similar training protocols for strength, power, speed, and endurance, agility is a different story. Cameron Josse…
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…
A Review of the NordBord Hamstring Testing System
The NordBord Hamstring Testing System, developed by Vald Performance, is a fast and easy way to measure eccentric and isometric…
The Horizontal Jumps: Technical Training for the Long Jump
Developing long jumpers requires a comprehensive technical training system that encompasses exercise and drill selection, teaching strategies, and ways to…