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Mark Watts explains how deviating from a traditional linear periodization approach in young athletes may yield greater performance.
We were promoting what was right, but small private schools sometimes do not have the money to do what is right.
I followed all of the rules and got huge. It was more fat jacked than truly huge.
I am living out of a car and sleeping on a couch while coaching at the most historically significant institution of higher learning in the country.
Mark Watts tells how to make your move from the stands to the field on game day.
Back when I started my journey into the iron game, even before I started coaching, there was not much to choose from.
In the days of the entitled millennial, nothing ruins a young person quite like giving them something they did not earn.
The body has the amazing ability to adapt to any stimulus. This can be a bad thing when it comes to training.
I really do not believe you can even scratch the surface on what it takes to be a strength and conditioning coach with an internship that is less than 600 hours for a semester.
The best coaches are the best thieves and this is something else I stole from Brian Cain.
Baseball players tend to be a part of those particular athletes that do not see the connection of increased strength and power with increased performance on the field.
While being coached by Leo Totten and Mike Gattone at the NSCA National Conference, they finally got me to the point where I could actually catch a clean.
I often think about what I would do differently if I coached again.
I have had the privilege of mentoring numerous interns trying to become a strength & conditioning coach
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What happens when an athlete joins a CrossFit gym when training for their sport?