Solving the Summer Challenges of Coaching Collegiate Athletes
Solving the Summer Challenges of Coaching Collegiate Athletes
With summer programming for athletes, control what you can control and don't sweat the rest.
Investigating University of Maryland's Strength and Conditioning Blueprint
Investigating University of Maryland's Strength and Conditioning Bl...
Coach Hamer interviews strength and conditioning coach Drew Wilson from the University of Maryland to find out how he gets the Terrapins strong and ready for football season.
Showtime Sports Performance Clinic
Showtime Sports Performance Clinic
Showtime Strength & Performance presents
Teaching Humility and Success
Teaching Humility and Success
One of the most important lessons is not learning how to accomplish your goals, but rather how to carry yourself once you do.
It's 2015-Do Something!
It's 2015-Do Something!

Hamer reviews 2014 and what he learned professionally.

'Tis the (Basketball) Season
'Tis the (Basketball) Season

Build it in the gym, show it on the court -- sample programs to condition your ballers.

Recruiting From Within the Weightroom
Recruiting From Within the Weightroom

Your first impression defines the coach-athlete relationship that determines your program's success.

In-Season Training Discussion with Todd Hamer
In-Season Training Discussion with Todd Hamer

We invade Robert Morris University during football two-a-days to grill a prominent strength coach.

Having the Courage to Put Your Program Under the Microscope
Having the Courage to Put Your Program Under the Microscope

Being open to criticism from an experienced coach may be what you need to build a better program.

Throw Out Your Science Books
Throw Out Your Science Books

Insights from the 2014 NSCA Pennsylvania State Conference.

State of the Profession
State of the Profession

Strength and conditioning is constantly evolving, never at a faster rate than now.

Confidence or Competence?
Confidence or Competence?

Which of these drives the success of a program?

Use Your Inside Voice and Be Front Stage
Use Your Inside Voice and Be Front Stage

A lot of people on this planet can read what you wrote, so choose your words carefully.

Why My Staff Hates Me
Why My Staff Hates Me

When you coach, train, or live, do you do what is best for the group or what is best for you?

By the Coach for the Coach: The Left Coast Edition
By the Coach for the Coach: The Left Coast Edition

How can we work to improve this profession so that we can make a true living?

Elitefts Sports Performance Podcast (Episode 5)
Elitefts Sports Performance Podcast (Episode 5)

Interview with Todd Hamer, Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at Robert Morris University

By the Coach for the Coach: An Interview with Andrew Paul
By the Coach for the Coach: An Interview with Andrew Paul

This month, I will hand over the reins to a good friend and great coach and listen to a great mind, Andrew Paul!

By the Coach for the Coach: Perceptions
By the Coach for the Coach: Perceptions

How do you let people know that you are good at what you do and get them to believe in you?

By the Coach for the Coach: Exercise Edition
By the Coach for the Coach: Exercise Edition

We want to teach that we move objects. We do not allow those objects to move us.

Elitefts Roundtable: In-Season Training for Football
Elitefts Roundtable: In-Season Training for Football

Elitefts™ coaches and columnists discuss their views on the best in–season templates for football.

By the Coach for the Coach: Rules for Being a Strength Coach
By the Coach for the Coach: Rules for Being a Strength Coach

This is where the art of coaching comes into the picture.

By the Coach for the Coach: Don't Do at 25 What You Won't Do at 35!
By the Coach for the Coach: Don't Do at 25 What You Won't Do a...

Take a break, read a book, drink a beer, connect with others, and do something that you enjoy outside of work.

Three Questions for Coach Kevin Argauer
Three Questions for Coach Kevin Argauer

An interview with University of Pittsburgh Strength & Conditioning Coach, Kevin Argauer.

By the Coach for the Coach: Don't Try to Be a Ten—Be a Five!
By the Coach for the Coach: Don't Try to Be a Ten—Be a Five!

You will know if the athletes respect you when you see them in the grocery store. Do they walk the other way or come up and say hello?

Reno Hardcore: My Learn to Train Seminar 6 Experience
Reno Hardcore: My Learn to Train Seminar 6 Experience

You would be hard pressed to find another seminar anywhere with the stacked deck in attendance at the LTT6.

By the Coach for the Coach: The Trip 2013
By the Coach for the Coach: The Trip 2013

Enjoy the ride (including a bike ride) because it’s over too quickly.

By the Coach for the Coach: Know YA!
By the Coach for the Coach: Know YA!

When you are speaking, you must know who you are speaking to.

By the Coach for the Coach: The Ladies Take Over
By the Coach for the Coach: The Ladies Take Over

The strength and conditioning industry—from a woman’s point of view.

By the Coach for the Coach: Be the Bee
By the Coach for the Coach: Be the Bee

In order for the hive to survive and thrive, each bee must know her place in the hive. The same goes for your coaching team.

By the Coach for the Coach: Triphasic Training
By the Coach for the Coach: Triphasic Training

To find out more about triphasic training, Todd Hammer interviewed the man behind the magic—Cal Dietz.

By the Coach for the Coach: Stronger Than the Sum of Our Parts
By the Coach for the Coach: Stronger Than the Sum of Our Parts

Todd Hamer interviews former professional boxer, Joe Divosevic.

By the Coach for the Coach: It Isn't the Strongest of the Species That Survives
By the Coach for the Coach: It Isn't the Strongest of the Species T...

I like to think that, as a profession, we’re much better than we were.

By the Coach for the Coach: Football Camp
By the Coach for the Coach: Football Camp

If you’re a coach who works with football or any other fall sport, there are many issues that you must address in early August.

By the Coach for the Coach: 10 Things I Learned (or Was Just Reminded of) During the 2011-12 School Year
By the Coach for the Coach: 10 Things I Learned (or Was Just Reminded of...

Now that we’re into summer, and the spring semester is behind us, I think we must reflect on what we did during the school year.

By the Coach for the Coach: The Trip
By the Coach for the Coach: The Trip

Each year for the CSCCa conference, my staff and I take a road trip.

By the Coach for the Coach: Follow the Chain
By the Coach for the Coach: Follow the Chain

How do we get an athlete who achieved a certain level of strength to change what he is doing in order to achieve even greater results?

By the Coach for the Coach: Who We Are?!
By the Coach for the Coach: Who We Are?!

Who am I? Am I one of the negative people? What are others’ perceptions of me?

For the Coach From the Coach: We Are Educators
For the Coach From the Coach: We Are Educators

“When you think of a strength coach, you think of loud music, yelling, and chalk. We have all that and so much more.”

For the Coach From the Coach: Create a Winning Environment in Your Weight Room
For the Coach From the Coach: Create a Winning Environment in Your Weigh...

To me, the training environment doesn’t change. All the expectations and styles are present and consistent with every team.

By the Strength Coach for the Strength Coach
By the Strength Coach for the Strength Coach

These articles will focus on collegiate strength and conditioning and issues associated with the profession.

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