In January 2017, Marc Keys and I embarked upon a labor of love to develop a questionnaire investigating what the various groups of people who make up the rugby industry think are the key elements of the physical preparation of the rugby player. Here are the results.
Perhaps you’ve seen the video of an athlete moving through the agility ladder with his feet hardly visible because they are moving so fast. This remains the common mainstream perception of agility training. Does this, however, actually make athletes more agile on the field?
Designing a program that builds agility, speed, strength, and conditioning, while also training the strongman movements, can seem a daunting task. Here’s how I approach it.
Young coaches often find a spot late in the summer leaving little time to prepare for the year ahead. Here are the planning and scheduling factors to consider as you construct your program.
The off-season is your time to improve your strengths, fix your weaknesses, and come back better next year. Here are the most important things to consider when planning your training.
Increase agility by using bands to reinforce proper positioning and improve motor patterns in an athletic setting.
Five strategies to add workout density and keep athletes engaged with speed and strength training.
John Welbourn and his coaching crew provide insight into how they create power athletes.
Olympians, NFL players, MMA fighters—Landow has trained them all. Here’s how he does it.
Somehow, it is universally accepted that if you increase your strength and do running specific drills, you will increase your speed and quickness.
Agility is a necessary factor in athletics. But how can it be improved, and how does it relate to strength and speed?
My LTT experience usually begins on Thursday— a little earlier than everyone else. During the last LTT in May, I worked with a dozen youth athletes doing some speed training work, and I was invited to do so again this time.
Open skill agility drills that more closely mimic the unpredictable nature of competition are lacking in most programs.
Elitefts coach Julia Ladewski performs lateral resistance band hand walks through an agility ladder. Make sure you go both directions.
Just as all great football teams have common traits (good defense, team work, great coaching), all football strength programs share common qualities that set them apart from the pack.
The new wave in ice hockey strength and conditioning seems to be dominated by “functional” training, which often becomes dysfunctional. Let’s look at our goals for in-season lifting and the factors to consider in professional hockey. I’ll also present my program template for in-season hockey training, which has been used successfully in the American Hockey League (AHL).
In any sport, athletes need to be able to accelerate as quickly as possible to get to the ball or opponent first. As a coach, you must put your athletes in the best possible position to succeed.
