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7 Principles of High School Track and Field to Guide Coaches in All Sports
While all coaches run their teams differently, these seven fundamental principles offer a glimpse of the ideals for track and field, as well as other…
What Can Penalty Shoot-Outs Teach Us About the Relay?
Ultimately, what gets done in practice—as well as what doesn’t—carries over into competition. Craig Pickering considers the way that potential solutions to improve penalty shoot-out…
How to Plan the Off-Season in Canadian University Football Part 2: Summer and In-Season Training
After winter training, with summer just around the corner, Canadian football programs transition to sport-specific athletic development activities. This second of two articles provides insight…
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…
Autoregulation: The Pros and Cons When Training Athletes
Whether autoregulation is part of a training session or is the program itself, adjusting workloads to the individual athlete can…
Popular Articles
Improving the Start Block: A Case Study
It may be best to understand and train your sprinter’s individual challenges in the start block than to train their…
Heart Rate Variability Training
Changes in an athlete’s heart rate variability in response to training can provide insight into the way the cardiac autonomic…
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…