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The 90’s Workout That Moved the Fitness Industry in a New Direction
Tracing the history of the slide board, Jimmy Martin points out why coaches and trainers should put this multidirectional and multipurpose training tool in their…
Kinvent K-Push Review: An Impressive New Handheld Dynamometer
Vien Vu is no stranger to using Kinvent’s handheld dynamometers, and he recently spent time testing the new K-Push. What does he think? Read the…
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 at the disparity in our…
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 new S&C facility features 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 lacrosse player Brennan Sweeney details…
World Speed Summit Preview: A Look at Kelly Starrett’s ‘Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World’
In his new book, ‘Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World,’ Kelly Starrett, a CrossFit thought leader and self-therapy advocate,…
Timed “Max Effort”
Many athletes have to translate their strength into speed. In this article, Coach Pete Arroyo, owner of the Chicago-based gym…
Improve Deceleration Capabilities by Training the “Left Side of the Curve”
Coach Joey Guarascio details how to implement decelerative training, breaking down how to classify, progress, and pair eccentric training elements…
Death by a Thousand Cuts: Athlete Breathing Dysfunction
Rob Wilson helps coaches develop a basic understanding of the holistic nature of breath pattern dysfunction in athletes, some of…
How Training Athletes in the Private Sector Made Me a Better Track Coach
Coach Rob Assise has been a high school track coach for years, but he began to privately train track and…
Building Better-Conditioned Athletes Through a Physiological Profile
Performance coach Sean Seale explains in detail how he uses a physiological profile test to individualize, optimize, and orient the…
The Effects of Ballistic vs. Accommodating Resistance Barbell Training on Bar Speed Metrics
Coach Brandon Pigg undertook an informal study comparing two methods of barbell training for power. Read more about the process…