Todd Hamer

With summer programming for athletes, control what you can control and don’t sweat the rest.

In constant strive to get better as a coach and staff, these six things will prove useful.

Proper communication and behavior requires a firm understanding of your surroundings and of those with whom you interact.

Coach Hamer interviews strength and conditioning coach Drew Wilson from the University of Maryland to find out how he gets the Terrapins strong and ready for football season.

The king of all exercises is a crucial teaching tool for your athletes.

One of the most important lessons is not learning how to accomplish your goals, but rather how to carry yourself once you do.

Hamer reviews 2014 and what he learned professionally.

Build it in the gym, show it on the court -- sample programs to condition your ballers.

Lessons from the gym transferred to life.

Your first impression defines the coach-athlete relationship that determines your program's success.

Being open to criticism from an experienced coach may be what you need to build a better program.

Insights from the 2014 NSCA Pennsylvania State Conference.

Strength and conditioning is constantly evolving, never at a faster rate than now.

Which of these drives the success of a program?

A lot of people on this planet can read what you wrote, so choose your words carefully.

When you coach, train, or live, do you do what is best for the group or what is best for you?

How can we work to improve this profession so that we can make a true living?

This month, I will hand over the reins to a good friend and great coach and listen to a great mind, Andrew Paul!

How do you let people know that you are good at what you do and get them to believe in you?

We want to teach that we move objects. We do not allow those objects to move us.

This is where the art of coaching comes into the picture.

Take a break, read a book, drink a beer, connect with others, and do something that you enjoy outside of work.

You will know if the athletes respect you when you see them in the grocery store. Do they walk the other way or come up and say hello?

Enjoy the ride (including a bike ride) because it’s over too quickly.

When you are speaking, you must know who you are speaking to.

The strength and conditioning industry—from a woman’s point of view.

In order for the hive to survive and thrive, each bee must know her place in the hive. The same goes for your coaching team.

To find out more about triphasic training, Todd Hammer interviewed the man behind the magic—Cal Dietz.

Todd Hamer interviews former professional boxer, Joe Divosevic.

One’s coaching philosophy and training strategy is shaped by more than personal preference…it is molded by one’s thoughts, experiences, and lessons.

I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching about what the goals are for this article series.

I like to think that, as a profession, we’re much better than we were.

If you’re a coach who works with football or any other fall sport, there are many issues that you must address in early August.

Now that we’re into summer, and the spring semester is behind us, I think we must reflect on what we did during the school year.

Each year for the CSCCa conference, my staff and I take a road trip.

How do we get an athlete who achieved a certain level of strength to change what he is doing in order to achieve even greater results?

Who am I? Am I one of the negative people? What are others’ perceptions of me?

As with anything in this profession, we’re only limited by our imagination, so please feel free to show me how you add DE work into your programs.

“When you think of a strength coach, you think of loud music, yelling, and chalk. We have all that and so much more.”

To me, the training environment doesn’t change. All the expectations and styles are present and consistent with every team.

These articles will focus on collegiate strength and conditioning and issues associated with the profession.

I’ve found that I have the best alone time when walking my dogs on a nice morning. A few days ago, it was unseasonable warm here in Pennsylvania, and I was spending some quality time with two of my dogs. I started thinking about training.

It might seem like I’ve been doing many interviews lately. There’s good reason for this. A few weeks ago, I did an interview for EliteFTS, and I was asked the question, “Who do you feel is getting it done in strength and conditioning?”

I’m the head Olympic strength and conditioning coach at the University of Minnesota and am currently working with eight sports. These include men’s and women’s hockey, men’s basketball, men’s track and field, men’s swimming, baseball, and men’s and women’s golf.