The medicine ball is a great tool for the strength and conditioning of athletes. It’s extremely versatile, can be used almost anywhere, provides a great deal of variety to an athlete, and...
As we’ve covered in other posts, some of the techniques of a track and field athlete are appropriate to the training of non-track and field athletes, the challenge is that a non-track...
In a previous post, I discussed the challenges with using speed training for the training of athletes (see http://www.yourhpservices.com/blog/?p=1265 ). In this post, I discussed the fact that most athletes are not...
When I entered the coaching field, strength and conditioning was very different than it is today. The focus of the strength and conditioning coach was on the Olympic lifts, the three...
When I’m coaching basketball, I find it challenging to teach players the kind of speed that great offensive basketball requires. When it comes to basketball; players understand getting the ball to the...