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How Reflective Practice Improved My Coaching
A coach should continually reflect, adapt, and innovate to develop both as a professional and as an individual. Critical reflection on events will improve a…
7 Steps to Land a College Roster Spot
A coach’s job doesn’t stop at the finish line; you should also help your athletes transition their hard work and talent into future success. These…
The Path to Ball Mastery with Techne Futbol
Just spending time with the ball is the best way to master the basics of soccer and hone your technique. The Techne Futbol app helps…
Is Grip Strength as Important as We Think It Is?
Many programs dedicate time to specifically train grip. But just how important is grip strength to athletic performance, and would an athlete have a glaring…
How to Enhance Performance on Competition Day
The goal of the warm-up is to enhance subsequent performance. Yet after completing the warm-up at many high-level competitions, the athlete undergoes a long period…
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…
The Need for Speed: A Modern Approach to Training and Recruiting Sprinters
It’s time to modernize the way track and field coaches approach training and recruitment. When you focus on speed first,…
CrossFit Controversies: Training Elite Athletes
High-repetition power and strength exercises are interspersed with high-volume multi-joint movements which ultimately lead to the exhaustion of all metabolic…
Life as a Competition
There’s been widespread acknowledgment of the positive impact that sport can have on people and society. More specifically, competition plays…
Five Reasons to Attend Track Football Consortium IV
Speed is the key to modern football, but too many football practices look more like boot camp than track practice.…
A Few Coaching Necessities: Continuing Education and Training Aids
A coach shouldn’t need to rely on talented athletes in order to be successful; instead, they should be the one…
The Risks and Rewards of Wearable Sports Tech for Running
Scribe Labs has gathered quite a lot of real-world running data from the use of its wearable running sensor, RunScribe.…