At the end of the day, the player who can move the fastest within the context of their sport will almost always be more successful.
Drummer sensation Brandon Khoo gives insight into what makes a great drummer. Strength and conditioning coaches, listen up. His answer is genius.
Over the last five semesters, we’ve made a lot of adjustments to how we warm-up our athletes. Here are the most important changes.
In part one of this series, I discussed a brief overview of maximum strength training for team sport athletes. In this section, I will provide a case in support of training for power development.
This article was conducted in collaboration with David Kitchen (Bloomsburg University), Matt Clapp (University of Indiana), Ryan Nosak (UNC Charlotte), and Parker Showers (University of Cincinnati).
We have come to a fork in the road with sports performance training. Is strength training making your athletes stronger or just slower?
Using a quadrant management system popularized in the business world, this article examines an alternative method of progressing athletes through four years of collegiate sports.
This is the first question you should ask yourself when training a team. To get this point across, I’ve attached my entire fall football training program.
Through your support we can answer how muscle myonuclei control growth and recovery in fast vs. slow-twitch fibers. Back this project today.
This is not a list of excuses, but the reality of what really goes on, no matter what level or program you are at.
This method has shown effectiveness in hypertrophy training, so I’ve decided to try something new: what will happen if we take this method and alter it to cover two extremes of the training continuum?
Why do strength coaches quit and the people that hired them don’t care? Before exploring some possible answers, let’s look at the problem.
Young strength coaches, go back to the basics to improve your athletes’ performance.
After 15 years at the collegiate level, I didn’t think I had anything to learn from high school. I was wrong.
I’m sharing with you the actual manual that I gave my professional athletes prior to departing for their one-month break. This covers all the athletes’ needs for staying in shape for the rigors of pre-season training.
You can have the holy grail of training programs, but if it doesn’t fit your job, it isn’t any good.
Here are a few steps I have used over the years that have helped me, my staff, and our athletes be on the same page in understanding our purpose.
A loose forward must be one of the fittest players on the field. This requires a specialized approach to the strength and conditioning program.
When should the athletes lift? Where is the total training volume based from? How is intensity individualized within a team setting?
Telling a kid not to lift but then turning around and having him sprint, cut, and jump in those terms really does sound stupid, doesn’t it?
With dynamic effort work, we use the guidelines that Bryan Mann has written about extensively. I’ve tweaked his approach to fit our small budget and large team setting.
Most coaches rely on verbal internal cues, which may be the least effective. Here are several alternative options to help your athletes.
You might call this The Grand Unified Training Theory: attempting to combine the training elements of Olympic lifting, powerlifting, strongman, and bodybuilding into one single training program.
Your off-season was a huge success. Your athletes gained strength, size, and speed. Here’s the challenge: maintain.
Jay DeMayo invites Dr. Mann to discuss power and how strength coaches everywhere can better use information collected through athlete testing.
As I see it, there are three directions that this profession can go. I know I favor one and I’ll explain why.
If you do not follow these principles in your programming, you are building a house out of sand.
A player’s lean body mass has effect on the optimal mode of programming and dictates the methods you should use to improve athletic performance.
On my 40th birthday I reflect on the things I learned for each year of my life.
The passing of my father led me to look at myself and think about the kind of legacy I’m going to leave.
This six-month training block for a young man (program included) explains everything you need for half a year of size and strength gains.
Your resume is your written presentation of you. If you have a bad presentation, it can be assumed that you will not be a good hire. Don’t let this happen.
When an argument comes up about training women and the differences, I have a perspective that many of my male colleagues do not: there is no difference.
How can you sell your vision when it’s difficult to score your vision? Start with goals!
You took a step forward and now it’s summer. This time of year means nine weeks of strength and conditioning bliss and nine weeks of scheduling, programming and executing our own version of “the master plan.”
By assessing the strengths of each athlete, you can better determine their training needs and how to address them. This chart makes it easy to evaluate progress for each player.
With your athletes and with your staff, communication is all you have for keeping everyone on the same page. If you won’t talk to them, you won’t understand them, and your program will fail.
Trial and error over time has led me to where my programming is today. This has produced a philosophy that includes a different approach to upper and lower body training.
Bodybuilders are known for splitting weekly training into specific body parts per day. Will the same approach work for athletes?
With proper consideration of neural, mechanical, and metabolic elements, this podcast covers the methods used for developing a proper pre-season plan.
Instead of telling you about the event, I’ll do you a favor: here is an eight-hour video of every presentation.
Determining the time to implement velocity-based training hinges on three characteristics of your program and athletes. Give them what they need, when they need it.
If we want to get better, if we want to improve the future of our profession, we need to be honest with ourselves. We need to understand and address the real issues.
When it comes to training athletes in the weight room, remember that just because you love science doesn’t mean your athletes do. Learn to speak their language.
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?
These 10 coaching mistakes can hurt you, your team, and your entire program. Are you making any of them?
The emphasis is always on the athletes, but keep in mind, in order to be a productive leader, you must go through what you’re asking others to do.
Offering a standardized program of muscle-building protocols can keep your athletes engaged and motivated to complete the training demands.
Training a high number of athletes in a limited number of time poses unique problems for timing and extensive warm-ups. Use these quick and efficient protocols to streamline team workouts.
It’s been a good two years and 64 episodes with elitefts and the Sports Performance podcast. Mark reflects on the ending of a great chapter.
The three laws of motion are the roots of athlete programming. Find out how to apply these rules and improve your athletes.
We are certain this article and embedded videos will not hit every sports and news outlet online, but at least you will LEARN HOW TO F**CKING BOARD PRESS! We have no idea what caused the recent train wreck, but can offer one solution by reposting an article from six years ago.
Auto-Regulatory Training can give coaches an athlete-governed system to promote an optimal training environment with limited resources and shorter training cycles
S&C legend Bob Alejo breaks down training for all sports and the ever-so-important task of communication in our industry.
Ever wonder how collegiate athletes manage time between scholastics, sports practices, and lifting? Here’s how S&C coaches can help and develop a better relationship with sport coaches.
To help athletes overcome the limiting factor of human performance, an adequate training program must address an individual’s aerobic metabolism.
Training athletes in a team setting poses problems that are easily overlooked. Here are several coaching strategies and cues to get your athletes moving smarter and faster.