Strength for Speed
When it comes to training for speed, coaches and athletes alike focus their time and energy on improving many different factors. Acceleration, top end speed, stride length, stride frequency, anaerobic...
View ArticleTraining Football Players: Part 1
As a strength coach in the NFL, I have worked in several philosophically different weight rooms. Most of my time has been spent in the realm of what most would consider “traditional” ground based...
View ArticleFootball Combine Training
Combine/Pro Day preparation is one of the most high profile endeavors a physical preparation coach can undertake. It is one of the few occasions where the bright light shines on your athlete and your...
View ArticleTrain Like a Thrower
Throwers (shot put, discus, hammer, javelin) are undoubtedly some of the most powerful athletes on the planet. The feats I have seen with my own eyes and heard anecdotally from coaches during my decade...
View Article5 Questions with Coach Bryan Fetzer
Bryan Fetzer is the Director of Track and Field at the University of Virginia. Fetzer has been the head coach at Virginia since December 2011. He came to Virginia after stops at Harvard, Mississippi...
View ArticleApplied Sprint Training
by Keith Enderlein Editors Note: We do not have any affiliation with this product but simply want to share it with you because it is a great resource and its author, James Smith, has been such a...
View Article6 Questions with Ryan Russell – Auburn Strength Coach
What are the first things players to Auburn do as part of the program? The first thing our incoming athletes do is go through a Functional Movement Screen and some performance testing. This will give...
View ArticleUse of Velocity-Based Training in Programming Performance
“What I gave I have, what I didn’t give is gone forever”- Dan Devine The use of velocity-based metrics and their incorporation in training has been around for some time now, dating back to Soviet...
View Article7 Speed Training Mistakes That Keep Athletes Slow
With the click of a mouse, athletes have an arsenal of speed training videos drills and techniques to improve their athleticism at their fingertips. As great as this is for the modern athlete, it is...
View ArticleApplied Sprint Training
by Keith Enderlein Editors Note: We do not have any affiliation with this product but simply want to share it with you because it is a great resource and its author, James Smith, has been such a...
View Article6 Questions with Ryan Russell – Auburn Strength Coach
What are the first things players to Auburn do as part of the program? The first thing our incoming athletes do is go through a Functional Movement Screen and some performance testing. This will give...
View ArticleUse of Velocity-Based Training in Programming Performance
“What I gave I have, what I didn’t give is gone forever”- Dan Devine The use of velocity-based metrics and their incorporation in training has been around for some time now, dating back to Soviet...
View ArticleCommon Speed Training Errors
With the NFL Combine/Pro Day season upon us we are exposed to more clips of high level athletes training on TV and Social Media. We are also exposed to more high level athletes who are succeeding in...
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