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?
These videos made me realize what I needed to do in order to preserve longevitiy in doing what I love…lifting!!
Rope training is one of the premier tools you can use in your quest for victorious MMA conditioning.
An athlete with more power has greater torque, leading to a quicker athlete with more top end speed.
For athletes, it’s important to build strength levels using the big exercises—the squat, deadlift, bench, pull-ups, and other similar movements.
How many of you in the “elitefts™ family” have a sled, Prowler®, or homemade version of one of these?
There are many different schools of thought, each with their own ideas on how to train athletes in order to increase athletic performance. So how does one know which particular program will work for any given athlete?
This is a must read for any trainer, coach or athlete interested in the programming of training.
For many years, speed was considered some mystified aspect of sport performance that was measurable but unchanging.
Having worked my way through the ranks to be a collegiate strength coach, I’ve picked up a few things that other coaches can use to improve their own careers.
In the studies conducted on youth and adult pitchers, it was established that most injuries occur from overuse.
Periodization is an important topic in the strength and conditioning world.
If you’re a football coach or a strength coach for football, check this out. It may give you some ideas.
I’m sure that if I stay on my PC for a while longer, I could come up with more reasons, but here’s what immediately comes to mind…
We’re just over halfway through the season with twenty-two games played and, if successful in the playoffs, the prospect of sixteen more without any time off for good behavior.
Young coaches spend a great deal of time on program design, sets, reps, percentages, and every new drill or exercise that appears on the internet.
Antagonistically facilitated shock (AFS) training describes a novel manner in which to perform shock training or, as it’s more commonly known, plyometrics.
Having been a basketball player myself, I’m aware of the many challenges a basketball player faces both on and off the court.
If you’re a fighter and want to dominate your competition, what do you need?
I was introduced to the writings of Patrick Lencioni via an audio interview with Joe Kenn on EliteFTS.com.
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.
We tested all of the athletes on the four core exercises. No one reached any of the goals.
If we get a bit uglier year by year through our craft…maybe we should work a bit more on defenses.
Organizing and implementing a quality internship program can enhance the overall goals of your strength and conditioning program, which has limited budgets and resources.
I won’t focus on only one field because I want to do the best I possibly could in each field.
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.
“When you think of a strength coach, you think of loud music, yelling, and chalk. We have all that and so much more.”
An often overlooked group in collegiate sports are the people who aren’t with a team from freshman year through senior year.
Olympic lifts are one of the most polarizing topics in the sports performance world.
Recently, I was able to observe a high school football team lifting. While the coaches sat in the corner and talked, the athletes proceeded to do their version of a power clean.
Just like the most effective bar path in powerlifting is a vertical line, there are optimal directions for movement in sports.
Plyometrics (jump training) is a great tool for improving an athlete’s speed, power, explosiveness, elasticity, eccentric strength, and other aspects of the neuromuscular system such as rhythm, balance, proprioception, movement coordination, and agility.
The following plyometric and strength training program is designed for use during the pre-competition phase
A lot of internet trainers write a lot of articles about strength training, but really have no personal success in the strength world.
To me, the training environment doesn’t change. All the expectations and styles are present and consistent with every team.
I thank God for football and I would not be where I am today without it.
My personal training philosophy is to use any and all available tools that allow me to maintain a strong, flexible, and conditioned body to maximize my health.
The following is a program that I’ve put together over the last few years by doing research and trial and error (otherwise known as ‘under the bar’ research).
Muscles are just plain dumb.
Strongman training has always been considered circus sideshow-ish.
So, hopefully if we all continue to do our jobs really well, every coach will be educated on proper exercise execution.
Using the power of the mind is a very underrated tool in today’s world of strength athletics.
Looking back, I think it was a highly successful summer of training.
A structured off-season training program will do wonders for your in-season success.
The individual training sessions were designed with an overall emphasis on restoration between training, practice and games.
These articles will focus on collegiate strength and conditioning and issues associated with the profession.
Or would you rather win a championship? That’s something we all get to choose.
There isn’t any shortage of information when it comes to speed development for both the track and non-track athlete.
When your training is going well, your body is able to recover better.
Everything is a competition to this guy. Even in a basic email exchange, he has to get the better of you. To some people this is probably grating. To me, it’s funny, and it’s also a valuable lesson in realizing that it pays to be “on” and paying full attention at all times.
Know your athletes, care about their success, and do things right!
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The number one reason you aren’t getting recruited is because coaches don’t know that you exist.
