Squats and Shoes: Don’t Drink the Kool Aid Yet
I started out competing and coaching Olympic lifting. Way back when, it was ingrained in all of us that we needed to get special Olympic lifting shoes to be successful in the...
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Power Training: What If There Is No “Best?”
Power, the ability to generate force quickly, is important to every sport. As a result, it’s something that coaches focus on with the training of their athletes. The approaches to the training...
You Don’t Need To Do Everything At Once
As a coach, it’s difficult sometimes to understand that you cannot do everything that you want to with your athletes. There’s never enough time in the day. Good coaches eventually learn to...
Power Training: Critical But Keep It In Perspective
For me, power is about the ability to express force quickly. I understand there are better definitions out there, but this is how I explain it to my athletes. Sometimes the purpose...
Time Only Goes One Way: Age and Performance
As we get older, a number of us use the rationalization of “I still work out, so that won’t happen to me!” You see this when it comes to age-related declines in...