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Run Your Weight Room Like a Business

Nobody could deny that athletics is big business these days, especially at the collegiate and professional levels. Therefore, strength and conditioning practitioners need to run…

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How to Bring Sprint Training to the Masses

The size of many gyms and training facilities often limits the drills that athletes and fitness clients can do inside. Strength and conditioning coach, Derek…

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High-Speed Eccentric Resistance Training in Sports

While training with supramaximal eccentrics helps to specifically improve strength, high-speed eccentric training helps athletes improve their power, change of direction, cutting, and jumping abilities,…

High Speed Eccentric|A table titled Flywheel Training Results compares pre-test and post-test performance metrics

Training Teams in the Private Sector

In the quest to set yourself apart as an innovative and tech-savvy sports practitioner, don’t lose sight of the importance of classic coaching methods or…

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Eccentric Overload with Flywheel Training and Rehabilitation

Traditional weight training using gravity-dependent tools leaves a gap in preparing an athlete to manage all aspects of performance. Without eccentric overload, an entire cascade…

Eccentric Rotation|Muscle Physiology|Eccentric Exercise|Reiner Marcello
Male High Jumper

The Jumps Roundtable #2: Reducing and Managing Injuries

No coach wants their athletes to get injured, but what can you do to prevent it from happening? In Part…

ALTIS Therapy Session

Performance Therapy – The Road to ALTIS

As a sports fanatic, I know how devoted athletes can be, and I wanted to find a way to help…

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Blair and Coach Laurier Primeau

Excuses Are the Nails that Build the House of Failure

As track and field coaches we’ve often heard that the best learning takes place not in formal educational settings nor…

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ALTIS Sprinters Practicing Block Starts

Building Excellence in Sport

In my journey to try and understand excellence in sport, I have been fortunate to work in a multitude of…

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ALTIS Sprinter

ALTIS Return to Play: A Case Study with Freelap Technology

At ALTIS we are always looking for quality technologies that can aid us in all aspects of training, but especially…

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1080 Sprint Review

Using thin cord wrapped around a drum, the 1080 Sprint provides a wealth of useful information on the built-in computer…

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Exxentric kBox 3 Review

The new kBox 3 updates and improves upon flywheel training to offer eccentric/concentric work in a compact, lightweight form. The…

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