Pre Season Baseball Preparation
As I write this on November 11, my youngest sons are finishing up fall baseball this week. The first day of real winter weather hit today, plunging the temperatures in North Texas...
Real World Strength and Conditioning
How coaches use strength and conditioning to improve the performance of their athletes
Why Sports Matter
Why Sports Matter We hear a lot about the darker side of sports, the side where money confuses priorities. Coaches that jump ship for other schools before their contracts are up. Scandals...
Train Strength Like a Skill
As coaches we are taught from school that there are several components of fitness. These are muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardio-vascular endurance, flexibility, and body composition. While this is great for an...
Jump Rope: An Essential Tool For Athletes
Strength and conditioning coaches talk a lot about the concept of “fast feet.” We want this quality because if an athlete has it then they should be able to stop, start, and...
Developing Speed
Speed. Regardless of the sport, speed is essential to success. It is so important that coaches recruit speed, prize and reward it, and spend a lot of time training for it. This...