This purpose of the video is not to convince you to incorporate resisted sprinting in your program. The purpose is to provide you with a brief overview of an alternate way to use elitefts™ bands as a more practical harness in a large group setting when using a prowler or sled.
Use these six programming tools to increase your athletes’ ability to rapidly reach top speed.
Olympians, NFL players, MMA fighters—Landow has trained them all. Here’s how he does it.
Joe DeFranco puts acceleration and force production into perspective.
I adjusted my powerlifting and kettlebell training to adapt to the needs of this highly-intensive challenge.
These non-traditional methods of dynamic effort work will supercharge your athletes without sending them down the road to rehab.
Six REAL factors to getting strong, not the same crap we’ve read over and over… and over again. Seriously, how many times do we have to be told to train hard, be consistent, follow a program and eat right? Those may not even matter anyhow but these do.
The article Foot Locker doesn’t want us to release. Stay tuned for our follow-up sock article (if Fruit-of-the-Loom doesn’t get a hold of it first).
By integrating training methodologies from Charlie Francis on speed and programming and from Louie Simmons on strength, and tying them together with the help of James Smith on Soviet sport science, Umberger has truly created a scientific approach to training athletes.
Video of my two favorite developmental tools for strength athletes that do not engage their glutes optimally.
Think you are a superstar in your Flexible Flyer sled and may have missed your calling? Learn all you need to know to get ready for the next US Olympic Bobsled Team trials.
If you want to know how to use chains for dynamic effort training or accommodating resistance, JL Holdsworth will show you everything you need.
One of the most important rules that I can’t stress enough to other coaches, assistants, interns, and anyone else who will listen is that SAQ is not conditioning!
By the time athletes are in college, they have bad or good habits.
Asking the right questions is a fundamental skill that can help you operate at the highest level possible.
Each athlete has an optimal weight for their position where they can play at their best. The key is finding it.
Taking some time off from training is more beneficial than you might think.
With this method, speed won’t only be admired and pursued…it will be attained.
Dave Tate and Julia Ladewski talk athletic training.
Rate of force development (RFD) is king in the sporting world.
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.
For many years, speed was considered some mystified aspect of sport performance that was measurable but unchanging.
Periodization is an important topic in the strength and conditioning world.
Just like the most effective bar path in powerlifting is a vertical line, there are optimal directions for movement in sports.
When developing the strength and explosiveness program for the University of Pittsburgh men’s hockey team, there were several factors I had to take into consideration as a coach. Hopefully my experience thus far will help you in similar situations.
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.
Here are the seven steps for building the perfect high school lineman.
Not only does speed kill, it wins games and wins championships.
Here are six lateral strength exercises you can use in your training program to ensure that you’re building real world game speed.
My job as a coach is to build the foundation of strength, make them faster, improve the balance of the athletes and increase mobility.
The following is an analysis of the strength requirements and the relative importance of maximal strength for different disciplines in track and field.
Think about it – the only part of our anatomy to touch the ground when we run or jump – and most of us spend little to no time developing strength, mobility and proprioception in the feet.
Time to start paying as much attention to the brakes as we do the engine.
When you train hard for a long duration of time, you eventually have to take one step back in order to take two steps forward.
Are your athletes getting faster or are they just getting better at your drills?
If your athlete is running with his arms swinging from side to side, he is suffering from teenage kid syndrome.
Trying to improve your speed? Jerry discusses how to do just that and provides some sample workouts.
The 4.30 journey is a story that every athlete who has had to run a 40-yard dash can relate to. It is my journey from running a 4.66 40-yard dash as a freshman in college to running a 4.30 for the New Orleans Saint scouts and the New Orleans Arena 1 football team.
I’ve dealt with several injuries over the last few years and it has caused me to do more research on how to get jacked (more research than I ever wanted to do in my life). However, it’s allowing me to get bigger and stronger, while still rehabbing injuries. The secret to this success has been speed.
“I tell ya. His legs are as strong as an ox, but he throws a punch like a 7-year old girl!”
For those not familiar with the sport, rugby union is a professional, widespread sport in Europe and countries in the southern hemisphere (Australia).
Team DOS just received the new Econo Prowler a couple months ago with the intent of using the hell out of it.
This article isn’t going to make me any friends, but hopefully it will open the eyes of some people and help them look outside their fields of thought and expand their thinking. During the last seventeen years, I’ve been exposed to several concepts and ideas as they pertain to strength and conditioning, including Olympic lifting, powerlifting, core training, assessment based training, Western periodization, Westside methods, tempo and volume based workout regimens, and others.
Where the hell did we go so wrong when it comes to football speed training? When did it become acceptable to pass off the hard work that entails training for football speed and replace it with fairly easy cone drills and gadgets?
Let’s be very clear—I don’t know shit. Not about constructing the ultimate training paradigm, not about recovery, and certainly not about conditioning. But what I do know is that I love physical training, and I have a great passion for learning about the strength and conditioning field.
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