2024-04-16 13:20
Going the distance in running means having a smart plan for what you eat so you can perform your best and avoid hitting the wall. Just like how having a solid dissertation structure sets you… Read More
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2024-04-15 16:29
Introduction
In the competitive world of collegiate athletics, jump sports such as high jump, long jump, triple jump, and pole vaulting are not just about natural talent; they are increasing… Read More
2024-04-15 16:23
Imagine stepping onto the field, court, or track not just as an athlete but as a champion. Building a champion mentality isn’t just about physical training; it’s about forging re… Read More
2024-03-22 17:07
In the high-stakes world of professional football, the journey from college field to NFL glory is a challenge that tests aspiring athletes. Scouts can turn dreams into reality with their kee… Read More
2024-02-16 14:32
Workout accessories were created to make our lives easier, but following our nature to scrutinize everything, accessories like knee sleeves are always subject to debate as their importance r… Read More
2024-02-14 14:04
One game that holds a big part of Australia’s heart and has become part of the culture of the country is rugby. Many matches have had supporters at the edge of their seats, but then so… Read More
2024-01-04 15:08
Power and explosiveness are the key traits of a football athlete. If you look at their body, it’s quite obvious how they are bulky in the right places and have the strength to play foo… Read More
2024-01-03 15:36
Professional athletes in the digital era have found an exciting new way to connect with fans, share their journeys, and provide insights into the demanding world of sports – the blogos… Read More
2023-12-14 13:00
In the contemporary educational landscape, the significance of sports in student life often goes underappreciated amidst the emphasis on academic achievements. This comprehensive article aim… Read More
2023-12-14 12:30
Being a student-athlete involves juggling the demands of both academics and athletics. This challenging but rewarding experience requires a strategic approach to ensure success in both arena… Read More
2023-12-14 12:00
School life can be hard for numerous reasons, from constant lack of time and energy to overwhelming academic pressure with multiple deadlines, exams, and assignments to complete. Fortunately… Read More
2023-12-13 15:54
If you go to any gym that has weightlifters, you will notice that a lot of them have strips of material wrapped around their wrists, which they tend to wrap around the barbell as well when p… Read More
2023-12-13 12:30
In higher education and professional sports, sports scholarships represent a unique intersection. They are financial support mechanisms and bridges connecting athletic talent with academic a… Read More
2023-09-20 12:17
Introduction
Athletes are known for their relentless pursuit of excellence and peak performance. However, achieving greatness on the field or in the gym requires more than just physical prow… Read More
2023-07-21 19:28
Imagine waking up every morning to a nagging discomfort in your lower back. The pain is unyielding and has become an alarm that starts your day off on the wrong foot. As you move, your back… Read More
2023-03-28 21:41
For those looking to lose weight, incorporating the right workout routine into their fitness regimen is essential. While any form of exercise can help burn calories and shed fat, some workou… Read More
2023-01-05 13:18
(Photo by Victor Freitas on Unsplash)If you’re trying to improve your physical fitness, rest days are just as important as the time you spend in the gym. Each time you train, you&rsqu&hell…Read More
2022-12-13 20:49
Sports are an important part of what moves us. It is a passionate sphere where we compete against each other and make friends. However, as we get older, it can become harder. For some sports… Read More
2022-11-15 13:00
If you want to maximize your strength, power, and speed during a workout, the best time is in the afternoon.
You’ll be at your peak during the window between one and six p.m., and you… Read More
2022-11-14 14:00
Millions of people are pumping iron, stretching heavy resistance bands, and doing pushups, squats, and lunges.
We will offer some important advice on how to safely use weights and exercise i… Read More
2022-11-12 13:13
Rounded shoulders can be caused by many things.
For example, you may hold stress in your shoulders, or you may overuse your upper body muscles. The best way to fix rounded shoulders is… Read More
2022-10-06 19:06
A question frequently asked by runners, trainers, and gym newcomers: how can I work harder, run faster, and train longer? The simple answer is to work on your endurance. The stronger you fee… Read More
2022-10-06 12:00
You may already be familiar with Ducati as they are a well-known name in the motorcycle manufacturing industry. In 2019, Ducati set to make waves with its range of electric bikes, satisfying… Read More
2022-09-02 18:21
I have told this story many times in presentations and in various podcasts. It deserves to be retold to underscore the lesson I learned many years ago and is reinforced daily in my coaching… Read More
2022-08-31 16:23
“Sometimes in the peaking process, it is not what you do, it is what you don’t do.” John Larralde, track coach speaking at GAIN on preparing his milers to win California St… Read More
2022-08-30 16:22
The most common default when making the choice between more work or less work in training is to do more volume. After all it is easier to quantify more jumps, more throws, more runs. Also, w… Read More
2022-08-29 13:05
Have you ever wondered how NFL players get ready for games? These athletes need to be in great physical condition ahead of every game, and that means a lot of thought goes into getting them… Read More
2022-08-17 20:42
Today, many of us are putting extra thought into our physical health. Taking care of our bodies is an important endeavour. When we feel unhealthy, our quality of life drops significantly, re… Read More
2022-08-15 12:52
Warm-up and cooldown are essential parts of the whole training process. It is helpful to think of the warm-up as preparation for training and cooldown as a reset to prepare the body for the… Read More
2022-08-11 13:36
I was first introduced to the concept of Hard/Easy at the first clinic I attended in January 1968 by Bill Bowerman, the coach at University of Oregon. The Hard/Easy concept was a cornerstone… Read More
2022-07-21 13:22
Training DO – Base your training on a sound technical model, and then adapt it to your athletes. The PAL Paradigm is my interpretation of the technical model necessary to run with good… Read More
2022-07-11 13:39
When you are planning your training program or evaluating your program, I have found it very helpful to ask the following simple and very basic questions:
Strong for What?
Fast for What?
Fit… Read More
2022-07-04 12:00
Like track and field, soccer requires stamina and endurance, determination, and focus. Because both sports increase cardiovascular health and aerobic capacity by working similar muscle group… Read More
2022-06-10 13:00
If you’ve been toying with the idea of becoming a personal trainer for a while, you may want to think about it more seriously. People are going back to the gyms in droves, and there&rs&hell…Read More
2022-06-08 21:29
One of the most popular forms of exercise for Brits is walking. 55% of Brits in a recent survey revealed that going for a walk was their form of exercise. Home workouts are also featured in… Read More
2022-05-18 13:46
My first four years coaching were at La Cumbre Junior High School in Santa Barbara California, in the neighborhood where I grew up. I taught Physical Education and, over the four years there… Read More
2022-05-15 13:44
I am a coach who specializes in being a generalist. I do this by being a synthesizer, connecting the dots in seemingly disparate areas looking for similarities, differences and patterns that… Read More
2022-05-12 14:00
Common Training Mistakes Relating to Poor Planning
It does not have to be hard to be good – Each workout is part of a larger picture. If you put their backs to the wall in each trainin… Read More
2022-04-29 03:28
Picture by Anastose Maragos from Unsplash – CC0 LicenceJust when you’re starting to see some results from your weeks of hard work lifting weight, you hit the dreaded plateau. You… Read More
2022-03-17 14:05
Looking back to gain perspective may at first seem counterintuitive, but stay with me on this. Think of the rower in a single scull, their back is to the finish line, they are looking back f… Read More
2022-03-05 14:42
Testing speed is the time in a 10, 20, 30, or 40 meter or yard sprint. Game speed is a cousin of testing speed. Game speed is the speed you can transfer from testing into the actual game or… Read More
2022-03-04 15:13
Tom Brady announced he was retiring from the NFL earlier this year, putting an end to one of the most remarkable careers the league has ever seen.
Brady spent 22 seasons in the NFL, playing… Read More
2022-03-03 15:00
The cornerstone of effective practice is routine. A set routine is the basis for consistent practice. Great athletes and great teams have set routines for training that do not vary. In fact… Read More
2022-02-14 23:51
[David Dack is a running coach and fitness author. When he’s not training, he’s doing research and trying to help as many people as possible via his blog. Check out his work… Read More
2022-02-10 17:47
A drunken man was intently searching the ground near a lamp post. My friend asked him what he was looking for. The drunk replied that he was looking for his car keys, so my friend helped him… Read More
2022-02-09 17:47
I have been thinking about thinking lately. There is a time to think and time to do. I learned this lesson from my high school basketball coach almost 60 years ago. I wanted to be good, so I… Read More
2022-01-29 15:31
What I see today with the use of this generic term “sports science” being thrown around alarms me. I see so called “sports scientists” directing programs, making cruc… Read More
2022-01-28 15:28
More or less? Does it have to be a binary choice? Ultimately the goal is to get progressively better. I seldom see the option of doing it better.
In my experience it is about better. I implo… Read More
2022-01-27 15:28
Adaptation to various training stimuli take time. You can’t force adaptation to happen faster than the athlete’s current level of trainability and physical capacity. You must be… Read More
2022-01-20 16:42
Anybody who has ever played golf before will be able to vouch for how important the swing is when it comes to accuracy and distance of the golf ball. Professional golfers in particular spend… Read More
2022-01-10 15:49
What is the posterior chain? Is it a meaningful term or a term of convenience without real meaning?
In a training manual that I just received produced by a national federation (in a sport pl… Read More
2022-01-06 14:09
Learn to embrace uncertainty
Manage stress, don’t let it manage you
Hard days must be hard – easy days must be easy. Nonnegotiable. Too much work done between hard and easy, AKA… Read More
2021-12-29 19:55
Optimizing human movement is about enhancing connections. Connections within the body, connections to the environment and to the sport.
It is mentally convenient to isolate out parts of the… Read More
2021-12-22 04:25
The career span of an athlete is something that is largely out of their control. Injuries and an aging body often force them to retire when they feel they can no longer compete at the highes… Read More
2021-12-20 16:45
In 2021, I have read 151 books. I never set out to read a certain number. Rather, I just enjoy reading, and I total the number at the end of the year out of curiosity.
I read for professiona… Read More
2021-12-17 19:01
There’s always a gap between theory and practice. This is especially true when it comes to sports science research. When you ask a scientist about good research, it comes down to stati… Read More
2021-12-09 14:00
Everything done in preparing the athlete should be driven by the demands of competition. So, ask yourself the question: Is what you are doing in physical preparation, technical and tactical… Read More
2021-12-08 02:26
[David Dack is a running coach and fitness author. When he’s not training, he’s doing research and trying to help as many people as possible via his blog. Check out his work… Read More
2021-12-01 11:33
One of my biggest motivations in coaching is to NOT coach the way I was coached when I played football in college. It was characterized by physical and mental abuse with motivation (If you w… Read More
2021-11-30 11:33
I wanted to summarize some practical conclusions from my personal experiences so that young coaches and athletes starting out would not make the same mistakes I have made in my journey.
Ther… Read More
2021-11-28 17:05
This is a post by Warren Young, PhD,([email protected]) Coordinator of Master of Strength & Conditioning, Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Australia. In my opinion Warr… Read More
2021-11-24 13:45
There will always be naysayers, doubters, and critics – If you listen to them, you will never progress. Never let them define you or hold you back. Put your head down and do the work… Read More
2021-11-23 14:00
You folks out there who self-identify as strength coaches, the weight room is not the center of the universe. If you are going to develop a complete, adaptable athlete who is prepared to thr… Read More
2021-11-08 14:30
It is so easy to get caught up in the what – the exercise, the drill or the workout. Today with the plethora of training spectacles promoted on social media the what is even more preva… Read More
2021-11-03 14:24
This fifty plus year journey of coaching that I am on has been rewarding in so many ways. Most of the rewards are intangible, relationships, lessons learned. Trophies and medals get lost or… Read More
2021-11-01 14:30
The essence of efficient movement in everyday life and sport is the ability to make effective and appropriate shapes for the activity. From a sport performance perspective making shapes and… Read More
2021-10-29 14:10
Never ever forget that training accumulates day to day, week to week, month to month and year to year. Therefore, you do not need to start over at zero each year. Build upon what you have do… Read More
2021-10-25 19:10
[This is a guest post from Subash Mathi. Subash is a Level-1 Badminton coach and holds a certification with the National Institute of Sports in India. He is currently pursuing a Masters degr… Read More
2021-09-15 20:55
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has recently taken the athletics world by storm and should serve as an inspiration to aspiring runners all over the world. The 20-year-old, middle-distance runner recently… Read More
2021-08-17 21:00
Whether you are a national governing body reviewing your performance at the Olympic games or a high school coach just ending your season and preparing for next year, I’d like to offer… Read More
2021-07-30 23:43
NFL teams are getting back to work with various training camps set up across the United States. Teams are gearing up to make a run at the Super Bowl, with the champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers g… Read More
2021-07-20 17:00
Injuries at all levels of sport are off the charts. Despite much hand wringing, bloviating, and elaborate injury prevention programs injures continue to rise. In the actual sport training, w… Read More
2021-07-19 16:58
You have a bachelors and master’s degree in sports science. You know more scientific theories than Newton & Einstein combined. You can run a GPS tracking system and generate multip… Read More
2021-07-07 20:56
When the time does eventually come Roger Federer calls it a day and no longer returns to SW19 for the annual playing of Wimbledon, the sporting world will have a genuine reason to go into mo… Read More
2021-06-29 21:09
Plenty of people go home with their adrenaline fix after a day of snowboarding, mountain biking, bouldering or off road trail riding. But some folks still need a bigger kick, and for those p… Read More
2021-06-29 12:40
[This is a guest post by Euan Barnes]
Being a professional football player is one of the most financially rewarding jobs in the world.
The top players earn millions of dollars a year from th… Read More
2021-06-21 19:27
It’s difficult to stay motivated to exercise when you’re at home. With your house being the one place where you can properly relax and unwind, the idea of keeping fit and active… Read More
2021-06-03 14:00
We must recognize that coaching is a creative process. What differentiates the good coach from the great coach is the ability to see the same athlete, the same skill, the same movement and s… Read More
2021-05-24 20:30
Some practical actionable advice to help get instantly better as a coach:
Leave your iPhone and iPad in the office. Put the Go Pro away.
STOP! LOOK! LISTEN!
Heighten and sharpen your observ… Read More
2021-04-27 13:33
I think of late I am suffering from a severe case of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). I am seeing all this stuff that looks really cool. I read and listen to the claims and I am in awe. Then I ta… Read More
2021-04-26 13:32
It is so tempting to just do what you are good at in training and to neglect the other things that you need to do to make significant improvement. It is so easy to rationalize away and then… Read More
2021-04-19 16:50
Professional footballers are incredible athletes and achieve remarkable feats of physical endurance throughout the season. They are also technically gifted and skillful due to many years of… Read More
2021-04-07 19:48
The body is a system. It is a system like no other. It is a completely open system that is highly adaptable. The whole of the actions that the body can achieve is greater than the sum of its… Read More
2021-03-24 16:00
My vision is to develop robust, resilient, adaptable athletes who are physically, psychologically & tactically ready to compete to win in the competitive arena.
In 52 years, the vision h… Read More
2021-03-16 14:00
I am always trying to find ways to do what I do better. I have a defined system of training that I am constantly working to refine. With success it is tempting to stand pat and not change. I… Read More
2021-03-15 20:26
In today’s world of high performance sport we have the potential to bury ourselves in numbers. There is not much we can’t measure, monitor, or analyze. In many ways this is a pos… Read More
2021-03-15 17:33
Today, we spend hours sitting in front of our computers. We don’t just work at the desks but also relax playing with a deposit or watching movies. Such a sedentary lifestyle can lead t… Read More
2021-03-10 16:45
Novak Djokovic is currently in a race against time to be crowned the greatest tennis player of any era. The Serb will be 34 at the end of the 2021 spring and has to win at least three more G… Read More
2021-02-24 16:53
Last week it felt as though there was a shift in the tectonic plates of European football as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi cut forlorn figures in the Champions League.
These two titans… Read More
2021-02-19 13:00
Maybe you have just completed a successful season and won a championship. The temptation is to rest on your laurels. To do the same training again. In order to stay the same, you must change… Read More
2021-02-18 13:00
This is a post I wrote over many years ago. If anything, this thinking is more pervasive now than it was then.
“A lot of things weren’t firing — his glutes, his hips, thig… Read More
2021-02-10 00:40
Years ago when Mike Young allowed me to share on EliteTrack never in my wildest dreams would I have believed all the opportunities that blossomed as a part of this community. I have blessed… Read More
2021-02-08 15:00
Anyone can do more. Can you do more better? Is doing more really necessary? It is very easy to default to volume, in fact it is seductive to see the miles, tons or reps climb. At early stage… Read More
2021-02-04 00:00
Are you wanting to improve your physical and mental health? If so, you’re not alone. Many people are focusing not only on quantity but also quality of life whether at work, home, or aw… Read More
2021-02-01 14:58
Nothing we do in training occurs in isolation. Everything we do is related. Training is cumulative. No one workout can make an athlete, but one workout can break an athlete. Therefore, keepi… Read More
2021-01-19 13:00
This morning on my walk I was thinking about what I have learned in my 74 years on this planet. Life has been good to be. There have been up and downs, but mostly I have been able to keep mo… Read More
2021-01-18 14:42
This is my attempt to summarize the essence of sprinting. Nothing complicated, just the basics. No need to complicate.
Let’s start with a generic definition of speed. Speed is the abil… Read More
2021-01-12 13:00
I have been getting many questions asking my opinion about various training methods that are being discussed online. Rather than comment specifically on each I will respond in a generic mann… Read More
2021-01-11 19:00
What is your lens? Each of us has a preferred lens to view an exercise, a specific movement or to evaluate a training method. Our preferred lens will bias our interpretation of what we see… Read More
2021-01-05 13:00
From the time I was a kid I have been curious, always trying to figure things out. My first recollection of figuring things out may in retrospect have set me on the path to being a co… Read More
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