Speed/Agility: More Than Mindless Drills
I recently had a conversation about speed and agility training from the standpoint of how to prepare young strength and conditioning coaches for it. I made the recommendation that we need a...
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Strength and Conditioning for Sports: Program Design Thoughts
Program design is an important step for the strength and conditioning coach. The program has to be executed by the athlete, it has to be continually evaluated and modified by the coach,...
Is Exercise Velocity Specific?
For more than thirty years, the concept that training adaptations are specific to the velocities of the training has been popular in strength and conditioning circles. This provides the justification behind plyometrics,...
Preparing for Speed Training
Speed training is an important training modality for most athletes. Speed training is also associated with hamstring injuries and shin splints. In many situations, speed training is an all-or-none effort. I mean...
Improving Postural Strength
What I think of as postural strength is critical to the performance of many sports. This may be a poor technical name, but to me it involves an ability to maintain...