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How to Design Better Flywheel Sports Training Sessions
While there has been some research comparing flywheel training to conventional training, we still have much to learn about using flywheels in training sessions. This…
Return to Play For Concussions: How to Use Data to Determine Player Readiness
By capturing and evaluating athlete exertion levels in their concussion return to play protocol, Brian Wiese and colleagues have reduced premature returns to full activity…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
The Speed Reserve Algorithm: A Simple Way to Attach Meaning and Significance to Sprint Workouts
The ASR algorithm provides individualized, specific goal times for high speed/short repetition workouts.
How to Calculate Relay Exchange Marks
A precise formula for determining relay marks removes the guesswork. All that’s needed is timing runners during the final part…
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…
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…
Building Excellence in Sport
In my journey to try and understand excellence in sport, I have been fortunate to work in a multitude of…
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…