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Make LTAD Central to Your Coaching
Long-term athletic development (LTAD) is a vital framework to ensure that all kids can grow, learn, and play to the best of their ability. This…
Are Your Testing Methods Impacting Your Body Composition Tests?
Body composition measurements are impacted by testing protocols, especially changes in body fluid and hydration. In an interview with Bob Alejo, Dr. Jordan Moon explains…
Competencies with Program Design for Sport and Health
In this second part of a two-piece series, Dr. Pat Davidson delves further into the objective biomechanics model, and provides readers with training movement biomechanics…
How to Develop Game-Breaking Speed
There is no substitute for raw speed in field sports. Understanding how, when, and what training modalities are best used for developing this game-breaking quality…
How to Plan the Off-Season in Canadian University Football Part 1: Winter Training
Due to differences in the sport, Canadian football teams can’t blindly copy popular US training programs, especially at the college level. This is the first…
Warm-Up: Comprehensive Preparation for High Performance
While warm-ups are not the flashiest or most exciting element of a training program, they are invaluable opportunities to physically…
Jumps Roundtable: Approach Accuracy
Jumps coaches have differing views when it comes to the issue of approach accuracy. SimpliFaster talked to eight of them…
Testing Protocols in Jump Training
While it’s important to assess an athlete’s level of readiness for event competition, coaches differ in the ways that they…
Individual Training Programs for Jumpers
In this third installment in SimpliFaster’s jumps roundtable, eight jumps coaches talk about the key physical qualities that determine success…
Technical Training for Jumpers
Technical training for jumpers can be very simple, or overly complex. SimpliFaster talked to eight leading jumps coaches about their…
Weight Training for Jumpers
“Special exercises” bridge the gap between traditional exercises and event-specific technical training. Simplifaster talked to eight leading jumps coaches about…
Bar Velocity Waving Periodization
Bar velocity can be used to dictate loads within a wave and to foster an athlete’s self-competition. Velocity offers precision…