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Momentum-Based Intensity Techniques to Progress Medicine Ball Training
What med ball training do you do with your athletes? Coach Konstantin Stamm presents momentum-based intensity techniques for athletes of sports and levels to help…
Pursue Health First: Refining Performance for Soccer
Coach Mike Whiteman believes that higher athletic performance comes as the natural by-product of aggressively pursuing health. Therefore, his thoughts on speed, power, and strength…
Breathing as a Skill: Teaching Breath Mechanics to Athletes
Breath mechanics are the actual muscular skill of breathing techniques, but as Coach Rob Wilson explains, you don’t have to learn to levitate like a…
Operating in the Gray Area: Blending Skill & Performance Training
When tailoring training to fit the athlete, in some cases a solid, balanced, and flexible hybrid model program can best accommodate their needs. In this…
What I’ve Added and What I’ve Dropped: Speaking Engagement Edition
Based upon her experiences as an in-demand speaker at conferences and clinics, Missy Mitchell-McBeth continues our “What I’ve Added/Dropped” article series by sharing what she’s…
Exercise Selection for High-Intensity Training
As enthusiasts and professionals in the world of sport, we want to develop the high-intensity qualities of strength, power, RFD,…
Training Football “Game Speed”
Looking at the 40-yard dash and speed on the field of play, Coach Tony Villani explains why the development of…
Building a Remote Training Platform for a Sustainable Future
The pandemic led to the shutdown of gyms and fitness facilities around the world. But Austin Wasserman, owner of High…
Facility Finders: Guyer High School (TX)
The latest installment of Facility Finders takes us to Guyer High School in Denton, Texas. Coach John Delf-Montgomery talks to…
Assessing Skill Sequencing to Better Train Rotational Power for Baseball Players
Baseball training is a world all its own, with specific sequencing and skills that must be honed. Coach Cody Hughes…
Misconceptions on Multisport Athletes
In this latest article in our misconceptions series, Coach Nathan Huffstutter looks at the ongoing, and often contentious, debate about…
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…