Questions and Answers with Amy Wattles and Sheri Whetham
In case you missed last night's Q&A, here's a sampling of the conversation.
WATCH: Buddy Morris' Advice for Parents
In this short clip from the SPTS15, Coach X gives a solid parenting tip and the reason behind it
elitefts™ Pause Bench Press
Mitigate the Stretch Reflex and increase your chest's time under tension with the "pause" technique while benching.
What's the Deal with Foam Rollers?
Learn the benefits of foam rollers and incorporate them into your training.
LISTEN: Tobias Jacobi Discusses Humility vs Ego, Sports Specialization, ...
The strength and conditioning coach from Strong Rock Christian School shares his experience from coaching multiple levels and sports.
Prejudging at Junior Nationals with Julia Ladewski
In a class of fourteen girls, let's see how she looks and feels as she preps for the night show.
WATCH: Two Lateral Speed Drills with Bands to Improve Change of Direction
Increase agility by using bands to reinforce proper positioning and improve motor patterns in an athletic setting.
The Letter Every Volunteer Coach Want to Send to Parents
I’m the one who answered the call when the league said they didn’t have enough coaches
WATCH: Ted Toalston's Four Steps of Meet Handling
When your training partners make it to the big meet, what can you do to help them have the best day possible?
Pregnant? Exercise!
Is there any problem that exercise can't solve? Studies show that women benefit greatly from exercise during pregnancy.
elitefts™ Reverse Band Hack Squats
John Meadows performs a Hack Squat with a Reverse Band alteration. Add Hack Squat to your training regime and also incorporate band or chain variations.
Elitefts™ Sponsors Compression Bands for Athletes Workshop at 11Athletics
Improve performance, mobility, and recovery at this free, hands-on seminar
Team Elitefts Alumni
Team elitefts™ has been honored to develop, cultivate and affiliate with some of the world’s most successful strength athletes, coaches, trainers and therapists around the world.
LISTEN: How Mike Boyle Became a Coach of Influence
One of the original strength coaches in the industry, Coach Boyle talks training, leadership, and more of what coaches need to hear.
Late Bloomers: John O'Sullivan's Relative Age Effect
Simply put, the “Relative Age Effect” is the correlation between arbitrary age cutoffs in sports and the statistically high success ratio of kids with birthdates within a few months of those cutoffs.
The Facts about Deloading: Is it Necessary for You?
Many of us have gotten stuck in the ways of the deload week; when it's upon us we basically go through the motions. Read what Jordan Syatt has to say about the traditional deload week and how you can capitalize on every training session.
Stanford's Ryan Cidzik Comprises the Ultimate Guide for Neck Testin...
There is so much information on how horrible concussions are for you. Now, thanks to Ryan Cidzik, there is information of how to prevent concussions. These training DVD's will assure your athletes that they are much safer to play the game and will have confidence doing so.
Training Sprint Speed at 90%. Fast Enough?
Make sure your athletes sprint intensity is high enough to develop speed or low enough to elicit recovery.
5 Off-Season Training Strategies from Andy McCloy
Andy McCloy of Athlete's Acceleration list 5 impactful training strategies for the off-season
WATCH: Why Communication is Key to a Better Coaching Career
Clear pathways of communication can optimize relationships and elongate careers.
Exercise the Lats in the Sagittal Plane
You must be tired of training your lats with just two exercises and in one plane of motion (frontal). Add dumbbell pullovers to your back routine and isolate your lats in the sagittal plane.
Pro Football Player Matt Mulligan on the Elitefts Power Squat
Tennessee Titans Tight End Matt Mulligan repping out 1200lbs on the Elitefts™ Power Squat.
Retiring from Football... at 24: Tim Elmore on Chris Borland
Tim Elmore is one of the best writers and presenters when it comes to developing leadership qualities in young people. Tim takes a different approach to looking at current issues in sports. In this article he looks at the decision of San Fransisco 49er linebacker Chris Borland to retire and relates to to long term […]
WATCH: Two Bench Press Mechanical Drop-Sets for Hypertrophy
In a traditional drop-set, you decrease weight in successive reps. With these variations, you will alter the movements to train past failure and new growth.
Matt Morse: 5 Lessons for 5 Years of Baseball
After such an emotional post-game with my teammates, it was not something that I really felt like doing. But, one of my life’s missions is to inspire others and I knew this could be an opportunity to do just that… - Matt Morse
2 Marines, Six Seconds
Five years ago, two Marines from two different walks of life who had literally just met were told to stand guard in front of their outpost's entry control point.
The Powerlifting Experience II: By the Numbers
Seven reasons to sign up for the Powerlifting Experience including a 2:1 athlete to coach ratio and 3 new coaches added
The Psycholology of Rehab
“The psychological side of rehabilitation is still scientifically observable,” explains Weingroff. “Spiked levels of dopamine and certain neurotransmissions can be monitored. Maintaining hormonal and neurotransmitter levels associated with positive mind-sets and positive rehabilitation is what we strive for.”
Legacies Alive: Swim for Their Sacrifice
On this memorial day, while most are sharing memes on social media, Legacies Alive will be undergoing their second Legacy challenge. Their first, Mike's Hiking for Heroes, warranted co-founder Mike Viti to walk 7100kg for the 7100 men and women who lost their lives on the Global War on Terror. I wrote about the event […]
Physical Therapy is Boring
You’ve just been injured, and you’re on the way home from an hour of physical therapy. The last thing you want to do on your own is confusing exercises that take too long to show results.
10 Tips for Assistant Coaches
“Think like a head coach, but act like an assistant coach” – Tommy Amaker Head Coach of Harvard University.
Travel Baseball
Who really is invested in elite youth sports teams? Is it the kids or their parents? - Tim Keown
Ed Jaskulski Awarded Regional T&F Coach of the Year
Ed Jaskulski (pictured in center) earned several coaches awards thanks in large part to the efforts of Golden Eagles pictured clockwise from top left: Cameron Shaughnessy, Dorian Hayden, Darius Favors, Antoine Keels, Marcy Merritt, Whitman Oehler-Marx, Zachary Brown and Samuel Taft. Photo Brockport Athletics Jaskulski Awarded DIII Regional Coach of Year Ed Jaskulski was named […]
WATCH: How Are You Teaching the Squat?
Mark Watts visits JL Holdsworth and his staff at The Spot Athletics to discuss instruction of the squat and how to create proficiency in an untrained population.
Tough Love Coaching: Is this the End?
Can coaches get away with what they used to? Do they need to change?
elitefts™ Glute-ham Raise Ladders
Try this glute-ham raise variation to strengthen your entire posterior chain and provide injury prevention for your ACL.
HS Football Player Recieves almost $1million from Lawsuit for Head Injury
The NFL has been setting trends and they almost always trickle down to the college and high school levels. Lawsuits are apparently no different. As thousand of former players are in a joint lawsuit against the NFL, there are isolated cases at the lower levels as well. Whether you feel these lawsuits are justified or […]
Brian Cain's 5 Ps of Peak Performance and Mental Toughness
Five things every coach or athlete can use to increase performance and enhance mental toughness
George Will's Views on Free Range Parenting
You know what it’s called when kids make mistakes without adult supervision and have to wrestle with the resulting consequences?
WATCH: 3 Agility Ladder Drills that Don't Suck
Besides a warm-up variation or trying to impress parents, agility ladders probably don't have much merit in developing speed or agility. Prescribed foot patterns won't help, but maybe these 3 drill could.
WATCH: 5 Strategies to Perform More Work in Less Time
Five strategies to add workout density and keep athletes engaged with speed and strength training.
10 Tips on Writing from the Late William Zinsser
Never have so many Americans written so profusely and with so few inhibitions. Which means that it wasn’t a cognitive problem after all. It was a cultural problem, rooted in that old bugaboo of American education: fear.
LISTEN: Basketball Strength with UAB's Cory Schlesinger
The most recognizable strength coach from March Madness, talks about primal movements and programming,
Register Now For The Second elitefts™ Powerlifting Experience
Discover your strengths. Conquer your weaknesses. Build the best strength of your life.
James Clear: Default for Daily Decisions
Designing your life to help you make the right decisions... by default.
Training for Hockey Clinic
Join elite strength coaches from hockey teams across the U.S. and Canada at the exclusive training event of the year, the 2nd annual NSCA Training for Hockey Clinic.
John O'Sullivan's Five Reasons Kids Quit Sports
We don’t simply lose the kids who cannot make varsity; we lose many of the best athletes on our teams.
Coaching Parents on The Reality of Their Child's Skill
Who needs more coaching when it comes to youth sports? You guessed it.
The bar is loaded: are you ready?
The bar is loaded: are you ready? Talent, preparation and competitive readiness
Book Review: Managing the Training of Weightlifters
A summary of Managing the Training of Weightlifters by N.P. Laputin by CrossFit Impulse
LISTEN: Frank Wintrich—A Model of Humility and Hard Work
The young strength and conditioning coach from BYU explains his development and the values he's put into place in his new position.
Leadership Lesson From Belichick
New England Patriots Head coach talks about what his rookies can expect and the biggest challenge they will face
Social Skills Comes Down to Emotional Intelligence
Why people are so witty on Facebook and so drab in real life?
LISTEN: Eric Cressey on Performance, Baseball, and Staff Synergy
The most sought-after baseball performance coach details his journey in the S&C field.
Progression and Regression System for Exercise Selection
Implement this exercise variation protocol to keep your athletes training at an optimal loading standard.
The Powerlifting Experience is Back!
Don't miss out on this unbelievable opportunity. Save the date: June 27th