A vehicle for advancing operational efficiency in sport may render a level of operational improvement commensurate with the aptitude of the organization’s employees abilities and commitments.
To be psychologically prepared is to have optimized the apex of preparatory strategies that most often distinguishes the most elite level competitors, at the highest competitive stage, with their counterparts.
You might know your methods and you might know your results, but do you fully understand how they relate to one another? Are your methods working for you or against you?
When you are not able to be physically present for an athlete or client’s training session, certain coaching strategies must be emphasized.
Many of the vital skills each team and player must optimize are rooted in applied physics and mechanical principles that serve as the basal constituents of all movement.
For our readers not looking to the take platform or the stage, this program delivers only what you need to become a stronger, leaner version of yourself.
James “The Thinker” Smith answers questions from the Elitefts.com™ Q&A.
James The Thinker Smith answers questions from the Elitefts.com™ Q&A
The implications on parental physical condition at the time of procreation.
The problem must be identified before the solution is drawn.
James “The Thinker” Smith answers questions from the Elitefts.com™ Q&A
Elitefts™ Q & A Coach James “The Thinker” Smith answers your questions.
The Thinker has answers to your training questions…fellow brainiacs to the front of the room.
Forget team, forget coaches, forget any other irrelevant factor.
The Process of Attaining Sports Mastery (PASM) is a multi-year and tremendously complex endeavor. The PASM encompasses the training and development of every conceivable physical, psychological, technical, and tactical component of sport performance.
Attention coaches: consider the athletes you coach and how they move during contests.
Setting the stage for sport success when it counts- begins when it doesn’t.
The solutions to these problems are as multi-faceted as the nature of the problems themselves
The current climate of club sport, in combination with school sport, in Southern California is one in which the majority of athletes are being placed under a degree of physical stress that their bodies are unsuited to handle.
The paradigm of military special operations training poses an ironic problem.
The perceived weakness is actually fibers that are impaired from contracting.
This is why I have long since abandoned the debate over exercise selection that does not fall within the realm of special physical preparation.
Dr. Yuri Verkhoshansky lost his life due to health complications this past Wednesday the 23rd of June.
It is my personal feeling that Charlie is the most important coaching figure to have emerged from the Western Hemisphere.
A few weeks ago, we decided to put together a roundtable-style article about the use of the Prowler…
One week ago I was offered and accepted an incredible opportunity to co-author a book outlining the physical preparation training of 6-time UFC Champion Randy Couture.
Question 1: I’d like to thank you for all of the helpful tips, but this is where we’re going to crash. As an athlete, I’ve been performing the Olympic lifts since middle school. I use them with the athletes I train from day one and haven’t had any problems.
Prior to a recent transformation which I recently underwent, I made the choice to negatively interpret a great deal of circumstances which infect our industry and society. I found myself in continual disappointment with respect to a host of factors.
In many instances team weight training consists of athletes of varying levels of strength preparedness- all performing the same training parameters.
As the sport of MMA progresses so must the specific means and methods of fighter training.
“Strength is an essential component of all human performance and its formal development can no longer be neglected in the preparation of any athlete”