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In Defense of Strength Training for Speed: Lifting Heavy Doesn’t Have to Make You Slower
Does lifting heavy weights make athletes slower on the track and on the field? Coach Mat Clark examines four misconceptions about strength training and speed…
Navigating Liability Insurance and Contract Concerns for Entrepreneurial Coaches
How can private sector coaches protect their business with the right types of liability insurance? David Akao brings in other performance professionals from his area…
The Different Types of Strength
Understanding the different types of strength is important for athletes, coaches, and trainers to develop effective training programs. Strength varies in its forms, such as…
Shifting the Paradigm of Percentage-Based S&C to VBT Across All Sports in a High School Setting
Briarwood Christian Schools has an elite athletic training program for students at all performance levels. Recently, the program began a shift from percentage-based strength and…
Training, Evaluation, and Scouting Considerations in the Portal Era (Part 2)
When the NCAA changed its transfer portal and NIL rules, it made college athletics look more like the NFL. While top athletes now benefit financially…
Interpreting HRV Trends in Athletes: High Isn’t Always Good and Low Isn’t Always Bad
Monitoring heart rate variability (HRV) can provide useful information about training. However, users must avoid using the black-and-white approach that…
Leveraging Automated Testing in Football Teams: A Strategy for Performance Enhancement
Technology that continues to help coaches better prepare athletes and save time is always worth writing about. Coaches Joey Guarascio,…
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…
Relax and Win: Harnessing the Power of Relaxation to Sprint Faster
Muscle tension is seldom good for the body in everyday life, but what about in sport? Coach Kim Goss explores…
There Is Only One Unicorn: The Croc Show Episode 4 Featuring Javi Almanza
Coach Javi Almanza joins Coach Croc on Episode 4 of the Croc show, providing a facility tour of the two…
Using the Art of Wabi Sabi in Speed Training
Coach Justin Dottavio recommends that coaches embrace the art of Wabi Sabi when training speed: recognize when a team sport…
Making Small-Sided Games Work in Your Training Calendar
In this last part of his four-part series on using small-sided games in off-season training, Coach Joey Guarascio discusses when…