Giuoco Piano
Both the center game and the Scotch game have an early move by white for d4. Both openings result in a pretty strong counterattack by black. The Giuoco Piano asks, what if...
Strength Research and Team Settings
Spiering et al. took a look at strength and resistance training, but they were looking it at from a military standpoint. By this I mean looking at what drives the gains from...
Warming Up is Situational
There was a time when warming up meant running two laps around the track and then stretching. Nowadays most programs take a very different approach to warming up. Warming up needs to...
Scotch Game
The Scotch Game is another opening with an early d4 move from white. Development follows the "rules" in this opening (king pawn, knights are developed, then the bishops move, early castling). It...
Benefits of Jumping Rope
Jumping rope is a lost art. As coaches we tend to focus on the Olympic lifts, on mobility drills, on having the right drills to build acceleration/deceleration, maximum velocity training, sport-specific agility,...