Coaching the Twixter: How the 800 Became a Sprint Event
0SHARESFacebookTwitterStumbleuponGoogleLinkedinDiggReddit By Ken Jakalski After starting my high school coaching career in the 1970s, I developed a philosophy regarding each event in track and field. I...
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.wp-caption-text { text-align: left; } 86SHARESFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditDiggPocketStumbleupon By Mark McLaughlin Lord Kelvin’s adage, “If you can not measure it, you can not improve it,” is...
View ArticleWhy the 1080 Quantum Robotic Resistance System Offers Better Training Results...
.wp-caption-text { text-align: left; } 67SHARESFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditDiggPocketStumbleupon By: Peter Holmertz, President, 1080 Motion, North America Interested in new technology that...
View ArticleEight Books That Helped Create a Coaching Career
4SHARESFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditDiggPocketStumbleupon By Chris Korfist While I was on my waterskiing vacation at White Birch Lodge in Elk Rapids, Michigan, Christopher asked me to write an...
View ArticleSuccessful Sports Experiences or Future Flameout? The Case Against Early...
70SHARESFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditDiggPocketStumbleupon By Dr. Denny Kolkebeck, DPT, CSCS Not too long ago, it was common to have kids who played football, basketball, and baseball; athletes...
View ArticleHow to Evaluate Maximal Velocity of Athletes
.wp-caption-text { text-align: left; } 134SHARESFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditDiggPocketStumbleupon By Carl Valle In my previous article on the value of maximal speed development, I argued the...
View Articleithlete Offers a Simple Method of Interpreting HRV Data
.wp-caption-text { text-align: left; } 59SHARESFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditDiggPocketStumbleupon By Simon Wegerif, Director, HRV Fit Ltd Here at ithlete, we enjoyed Andrew Flatt’s recent blog...
View ArticleHow to Jump Farther with a Consistent Horizontal Approach
.wp-caption-text { text-align: left; } 72SHARESFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditDiggPocketStumbleupon By Mario Gomez In 2011, junior Brandon Moss won the Texas 4A Region 1 track meet and set the...
View ArticleThe 5 Best Training Concepts for Maximal Velocity
120SHARESFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditDiggPocketStumbleupon By Carl Valle My previous article on the five best cues in developing maximal velocity stressed the limitations of conscious effort to...
View ArticleChampion School: A Year to Year Model to Developing Elite Athletes
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View ArticleThe 5 Best Coaching Cues for Maximum Speed
459SHARESFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditDiggPocketStumbleupon By Carl Valle When I attended USATF Level I school in 1997, a level III student told me that drills and cues were virtually lies, since...
View ArticleIs the Polish Bleacher Bound the “Dream Drill” for Sprinters?
.wp-caption-text { text-align: left; } 110SHARESFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditDiggPocketStumbleupon By Ken Jakalski At clinics, I often ask coaches to tell me their all-time favorite drill, the...
View ArticleTrack-Football Activation Consortium
30SHARESFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditDiggPocketStumbleupon Hosted by Tony Holler and Chris Korfist Sponsored by Exxentric and Freelap USA Date: December 11-12, 2015 Location: Montini High School,...
View ArticleTen Ways to Improve Schools Using Coaching Principles
.wp-caption-text { text-align: left; } 0SHARESFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditDiggPocketStumbleupon By Tony Holler Editors Note: Coach Holler will be one of the speakers at the upcoming...
View Article6 Mental Mantras You Must Know When Reconditioning Athletes
79SHARESFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditDiggPocketStumbleupon By Carl Valle Many interesting online discussions focus on injuries and the best ways to get athletes better as they recover. Some...
View ArticleWhat Are the Real Elements of “High Performance?”
4SHARESFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditDiggPocketStumbleupon By Chris Gallagher This tweet from Mladen Jovanovic, football physiologist at ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence, and the responses it...
View Article35 Recommendations for Building Better Horizontal Jumpers
.wp-caption-text { text-align: left; } 256SHARESFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditDiggPocketStumbleupon Photo courtesy Tony Duffy. By Nick Newman, MS Developing elite horizontal jumpers is not easy....
View ArticleHow To Become A Better Runner Using Feedback Analysis
99SHARESFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditDiggPocketStumbleupon By Ellie Kulick and Dr. Rebecca Shultz Ph.D., Lumo Bodytech As runners, we’re often looking for ways to improve our pace, our mileage,...
View ArticleThe 10 Best Monitoring and Regeneration Tips for 2016
.wp-caption-text { text-align: left; } 31SHARESFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditDiggPocketStumbleupon By Carl Valle Here is my first annual review. Based on email and Twitter exchanges, it features...
View ArticleThe WIMU: Advanced Analysis in a Single Compact Package
.wp-caption-text { text-align: left; } 34SHARESFacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogleRedditDiggPocketStumbleupon By Alejandro Muñoz López Nowadays the development of sports science technology is much more rapid...
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