Hip flexor quality can be the difference between a fast, efficient athlete and an athlete that will struggle greatly in competitive sport.
Looks easy, but you’ll have an entirely different opinion once you or your athletes give it a try. Remember, an athlete is only as strong as the weakest link, especially related to relationships between sprinting and the posterior chain.
After 20 years of service, I have come to realize that a powerlifting style of training is best for members of the military.
Your athletes are not powerlifters. Programming them as if they are will not lead to stronger, faster competitive performance.
What good is that 500-pound squat if you’re taking a knee in the fourth quarter desperately gasping for air?
This comprehensive guide to sprint training will give you the drills, dynamic movement patterns, and training tools to improve acceleration and athletic power.
Sprinting has both horizontal and vertical components. If your athletes aren’t training both, they’re not going to be as fast as they could be.
Use these six programming tools to increase your athletes’ ability to rapidly reach top speed.
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.
Each athlete has an optimal weight for their position where they can play at their best. The key is finding it.
Or perhaps it’s just another excuse you can use to head to the beach…
The Sports Jester is back with his fourth installment of his running technique series.
“Hell, yeah…let’s go run a marathon!” isn’t something that you’d expect a reader of EliteFTS to say without being overly sarcastic and/or under the influence of illicit drugs.
Just like the most effective bar path in powerlifting is a vertical line, there are optimal directions for movement in sports.
