Is Kentucky's System What is best for their Players?
To be honest, I wish more teachers were approaching their work with the end in mind, like he is. We must get kids career-ready, where they’ve not merely mastered a classroom but a work ethic.
The 2015 Central Virginia Sports Performance Seminar
For this year’s CVASPS we have stepped it up another notch, bringing back many of the favorites from past years, and introducing some new presenters as well.
NOBA Mr. & Ms. Natural Ohio
The NOBA Mr. & Ms. Natural Ohio will be back to give out IFPA Pro Cards this April. This show will have the best goodie bags and prizes of any show.
Why You Aren't Getting Paid to Train that High School
Coaches have a tough time trusting people they don't know to train their teams. They are also emotionally invested in the training philosophy they have implemented.
The Goal of Physical Education: Moving to Learn Movement
When it comes to kids and exercise, schools need to step up and focus more on quality as well as quantity. And, says Dr. Gregory D. Myer, they need to promote activities that develop motor skills, socialization and fun.
LISTEN: Rugby S&C with Ashley Jones
The information in this podcast comes from years of rugby training experience on multiple continents.
Mental Health Issues with Student-Athletes
To gauge the current climate inside locker rooms, FOX Sports interviewed more than 25 female student-athletes along with NCAA officials and mental health experts.
Greg Everett's Guide to the Start Position for Weightlifting
"If you still believe a barbell can’t be snatched or cleaned with an upright posture, you’re beyond any help I’m able to offer. If I haven’t convinced you by now to at the very least legitimately evaluate this starting position yourself, I have no hope of doing so." - Greg Everett
Catapult to Host Women's Training Clinic
For the first time in the industry, Catapult will be holding an event specifically designed for sports professionals that work in women's sports.
4 Thoughts on Accommodating Resistance
The issue I always have with noobs using bands and chains is always in the intention of application. Most people are using bands and chains for social media purposes and not for the training effect.
Jim Collins gets "Schooled" at West Point
The Re-Education of Jim Collins: The author of "Good to Great" went to West Point to teach leadership. Instead, he was the one who got schooled.
WATCH: Power Athlete's Founder John Welbourn's Brutal Honesty
After a decade of experience in the NFL with 3 different teams, the CEO and Founder of Power Athlete and CrossFit Football speaks the truth about the state of the industry
LISTEN: Dave Tate on Power Athlete Radio: Part 1
Dave talks training, coaching, and life in this first part of his interview with the crew at Power Athlete
LISTEN: How Adam Feit Got RYPT
Adam Feit shares how to optimize your coaching experience at every level.
Drexel University Sport & Exercise Science Clinic
Josh Bryant, Joe Giandonato to headline Drexel University Sport and Exercise Science Clinic in April
3 Lessons I Learned from Interns
The best thing you can do to help your career is do the best possible job you can wherever you are at. That's how you put yourself in a position where you earn opportunities.
Education to Entertainment: How Youth Sports Have Changed...for the Worse
Youth sports has become less a tool to educate children about sport and life, and more often a place where parents go to be entertained by their kids.
Debunking Dynamic Effort: 4 Ways to Enhance Your Speed Sets
Lifting weights for powerlifting is specific physical preparation. Lifting weights for athletic performance is general physical preparation, or GPP. The difference is specifically what the testable performance task is.
Dan John's Four Quadrants
Dan John breaks it down with this comprehensive infographic from On Target Publications
The 11 Best Irish Songs Ever: In Honor of St. Patrick's Day
I grew up on Irish Music. My mom would play it all the time and I became partial to Tommmy Makem and The Clancy Brothers, The WolfTonnes, and The Chieftains especially.
WATCH: How to Make it as a Strength Coach with Adam Feit
It takes a special coach to give everything you have to that athletes you coach while still pursuing what is best for your career. That attitude landed Feit one of the youngest head strength and conditioning coach positions in Division 1 Athletics
First Female Coach in the NBA
The San Antonio Spurs' Greg Popovich makes history by hiring the first female coach in the NBA. See how ESPNW Woman of the year Becky Hammond is adjusting to this year.
3 Reasons Athletes get Worse in the Summer
Health is the most important investment of all, and to place it in the hands of a competent Coach takes a little investigating.
Who is Dom Mazzetti... Really?
Mike Tornabene and Gian Hunjan are the masterminds behind your favorite comedic gym series: Bro Science.
A Lesson in Character from One of My Heros
Successful coaches, athletes, and people usually become that way due to how they are able to understand and learn from the negative things that happen.
LISTEN: Jay DeMayo's Rules for Transitioning to In-Season Training
The Head S&C Coach from the University of Richmond shares how to shape an annual training model.
WATCH: Joe Kenn's NFL Strength Coaching Guidance
NFL Strength Coach discusses the evolution of a training system and advice for coaches.
The Dude's Guide to Your Wedding Day
Most girls grow up dreaming of this day their whole lives. You didn't. Make sure it is everything she dreamed it would be.
Why You are Not a D1 Athlete
Every year, high school athletes get a reality check when it comes to their DI Scholarship. The NCSA has a few tips to give perspective.
The Book on Long-Term Athlete Development....Literally
Children, youth and adults need to do the right things at the right time to develop in their sport or activity
Eight Great Sports Performance Articles You Need to Read
Some outstanding sports performance articles you may have missed last month
Be Aware of Who you Become in Pursuit of What You Want
It took me two seasons to be the coach I knew I was capable of being again. My players suffered because of it. Some lessons take longer than others.
Elite Athletic Development Seminar 2.0
Mike Robertson and Joe Kenn host one of the most intensive and comprehensive seminars anywhere.... and there are still a few spots available!
Buckeyes Never stop Learning, Even From the Top
In a world in which trainers and coaches can now track how athletes' bodies are performing in real time, Ohio State's football strength and conditioning program now has more data than ever when it comes to athletic performance.
Greg Everett's Top Five Exercises for the Snatch
Catalyst Athletics's owner give five exercises to help you PR your Snatch
New Strength Coach plus Custom Prowlers Bring Change to Redskins
Mike Clark brings a new philosophy and new toys to D.C.
4 Lessons I Learned from James Clear
He has established himself as one of the most impactful writers of his generation in my opinion and I am proud to have seen him grow into the person he is today.
LISTEN: You Can't Manage What You Can't Measure
Using all available technology and resources, Ryan Horn explains how he developed his successful basketball team.
The Complete Aerobic Conditioning Guide for Field Sports
Field sports are characterized by a somewhat stop-start nature, varying movement speeds, multiple changes of direction and the execution of decisions and individual skills under conditions of game pressure and/or fatigue and in the case of some of those sports, the threat of imminent collisions.
Clint Darden Talks Olympic Weightlifting and Life
Clint Darden talks training and life with the crew from The Weightlifting Scoop
Please Don't Be That Dad
Amanda Scarborough lays it out for softball dads of young girls. Great info for any parent.
Strength & Conditioning Legend Al Miller Recieves NFL Lifetime Achei...
Al Miller was the strength & conditioning coach for Bear Bryant, Ray Perkins, and Dan Reeves. He is one of the original coaches in the profession and paved the may for many after him
Increasing Sport Participlation for Girls
“We just wanted to tell them the importance of what it means to be on a team and make sure everybody feels comfortable.”
Why Football May Be the Best Sport to Teach Life Lessons for Young Men
I also believe the game of football teaches certain lessons better than any other sport.
Vanderbilt football goes high-tech with GPS in shoulder pads
We saw what our first two practices (of spring) looked like, and we had played three and a half games in those first two practices
Using Velocity Based Training on an Elitefts™ Power Rack
One of the best training facilities in the country just got better
What Video Games can Teach Youth Sports
They learned by doing, they played without fear, and they figured it out on their own terms, and at their own pace. They had fun!
Are you Just Winging it? 4 Ways to Improve your Training Session
I see this often and I am able to recognize the lack of competency in others because I found it in myself first. I spent a lot of time coaching athletes by "winging it."
Single Sport Athletes and College Recruiting
When college coaches speak to high school coaches, one of the first questions often asked is, “What other sports does he/she play?”
One Big Ten School Wants Freshmen Ineligible for Football and Men's...
Will this proposal really address the academic issues for these sports?
"Rent-a-Careers" for Young People
Far too many new professionals enter their first jobs like they do an apartment. They aren’t sure if this is a long-term thing, and they haven’t really made up their minds about how long they want to stay in it.
Coaching Youth Athletes: We Need More Disciplinarians
We all lose when we don’t develop young people properly.
Study of Retirees Links Youth Football to Brain Problems
"The idea of dropping kids off at a field during a very important period of maturation and fostering hit after hit after hit, it doesn’t make sense to me personally.”
Resisted Band Jump, Tuck Jump, Sprint Complex
A short complex for intermediate athletes to develop jumping ability and linear speed
Announcing the 2015 Habits Seminar
The top performers in nearly any field of life have developed systems and routines that help them make better decisions each day.
Scientific–Methodological Aspects of Training the Kazakhstan Select Team
High results in weightlifting necessitate the search for new methodical approaches to enhance the effectiveness of training, especially in time for the most important competitions.
Why Softball Players are Tougher than Baseball Players
Ok, maybe they aren't actually tougher. I had the privileged of coaching some pretty mentally and physically tough baseball players.