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Building a Team Culture to Prepare Athletes for Sport and Life
The constant mentorship that comes with 3D coaching will overprepare every athlete for the 22 hours spent outside athletic facilities and academic buildings. The obvious…
How Coaching, Science, and Technology Will Save Football
Football is currently losing players at the high school level, and is the subject of intense debates over safety at all player levels. This is…
Why Are Improvements from Training Different Among Athletes?
Why does such a large variation in adaptation exist among athletes that undergo the exact same training program? Why do some improve more than others?…
How to Train Intensive Squatting for All Sports
Reconciling the benefits of intensive squatting with athletes who have busy schedules and high training volumes can be tricky for coaches. However, with derivatives, clever…
Managing In-Season Loading and Training with Contact Sports
Managing athletes’ training loads in-season is a delicate art, with a coach needing to balance long-term player development goals with short-term team successes. Coach Devan…
Using Speed and Power Data to Bucket and Train Faster Athletes
Tanner Care provides practitioners with a framework for better understanding/interpreting speed data based on his use of speed as a…
Solving the Riddle of the Shin Splint
Shin splints have plagued athletes for generations, with many recommended therapies and treatments failing to correct the problem. Coach Ken…
Challenges to Effective Athlete Monitoring are Easily Overcome
Achieving success in sport, particularly at the elite level, is a complex process. Monitoring an athlete’s training program ensures athletes…
How to Jump Higher Using French Contrast and Potentiation Clusters
Athletes can achieve great results by harnessing the power of potentiation and efficiency and applying it to selective ballistic endeavors…
Speed Development for Non-Track Athletes
[mashshare] In track and field, and running events in particular, the competitive skill is singular. If you’re a sprinter, you…
How Perspective Creates Success
Success in track and field depends on relationships and our ability to see things from the vantage point of others.…
Adaptations to Training for Runners and Triathletes
To develop the most efficient mechanics possible when running, we must create optimal muscle recruitment patterns. Eventually, even the most…