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What I’ve Added & What I’ve Dropped from Our Strength Programming
Chasing adaptation is often the goal of a training program, yet how often do coaches adapt their own principles, strategies, and exercise selection? In this…
The Key Missing Factor in Injury Prevention
More than increasing an athlete’s strength and mobility, preventing injuries requires that you decrease the amount and intensity of threats perceived by an athlete’s body…
Affordable Workload Monitoring for Independent Practitioners
Vien Vu helps independent sport practitioners monitor athlete workload affordably with this guide. Discover how to set up a system that uses a single GPS…
Partner Combatives: Bridging the Gap
There are physical battles in almost every play in sport, and they often have a large role in deciding the outcome of those contests. But…
Hydration Monitoring: Misconceptions and Best Practices for Team Sports
These days, everybody understands the importance of hydration for athlete health, safety, and performance, but what’s not as widely understood is how to measure and…
MedBalls: A Go-To Training and Conditioning Option for Coaches
Medicine balls are more than alternative options when you can’t get athletes into a busy weight room. They stand on…
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Misconceptions on Training Speed in Court-Based Athletes
A huge misconception about speed training for team sports is that it’s only for field-based sports like football and soccer.…
Yin and Yang: The Contrast of Training
Training is about more than building one type of strength; it’s about the balance of the whole system. Coach and…
Misconceptions of Training the Tactical Athlete
In our continuing series on misconceptions in athletic development, Danny Foley explores three of the most prominent misconception-based mistakes that…
3 Mistakes Softball Players Make in the Weight Room That Affect Power
Coach Anna Woods guides us through breaking down old movement patterns to build new (more successful) ones for softball players…
Training the Feet
Strength and conditioning training is about so much more than just building muscle; it also involves training the foundational components…
Juggling: One Skill All Athletes Can Benefit From
Would you believe, juggling? Coach Justin Ochoa explains why he endorses this training modality—which takes just 10 minutes a day…