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The 3 Biggest Mistakes I Made During My First 3 Years of Coaching
Being a new coach isn’t easy, and you often don’t know what you don’t know. Coach Matt Tometz hopes to help remedy that by sharing…
A Strength Coach’s Guide to Training Mobility for Olympic Weightlifting
Olympic weightlifting mobility refers to the athlete’s capacity to move through a full range of motion without restriction. It’s crucial for lifting performance, injury prevention,…
Game On: Cone Chaos
Jeremy Frisch follows Alan Bishop in our new “Game On” series, breaking down the rules, set-up, and scoring system for a team variation of tag.…
Efficient Readiness Testing with Jump Mats for Any Setting
Since jump mats are becoming more accessible, affordable, and popular in all settings of sports performance, Coach Justin Ochoa views readiness testing as a great…
Practical Ways for High School Jump Coaches to Break Down Film on a Budget
Borrowing the idea from American football, Coach Kevin Consoles began using “film sessions”—aka breaking down game film—with his high school jump athletes. Now the athletes…
A Comparison of the Normatec 2.0 and RecoveryAir Compression Units
Athletes have a growing variety of devices at their disposal to help prepare their bodies to play and then recover…
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Hold on a Minute: 3 Dilemmas in Our Understanding of Core Stability
What does core stability mean to you? What does developing your athletes’ core strength look like? Coach Nick Gies looks…
Facility Finders: Gainesville High School
In this installment of Facility Finders, Coach John Delf-Montgomery takes us inside Gainesville High School in Gainesville, Georgia, where a…
Mistakes Lacrosse Coaches Make During Conditioning
The two most important elements in a lacrosse team are speed and technical skill. In this article, coach and collegiate…
Strength Velocity Training for Baseball
Coach Drew Hill wanted to quantify pitching speed—perhaps the most valuable KPI for any ball player. So he tested invested…
Tracking Athletes Through the NFL Combine Training Experience
Coach Steve Haggerty tracks an athlete through his preparation for the NFL Combine, looking specifically at his performance in the…
Rethinking Athletic Fitness Testing
Athlete fitness testing is valuable, but the tests need to be relevant to your sport. With football as his use…