Post-Activation Potentiation: Still No Smoking Gun
The concept of post-activation potentiation (PAP) has been around for a while and has had different labels over the decades. Briefly the idea is to combine a heavy movement with an explosive...
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Returning to Play After Hamstring Injuries
Mendiguchia et al, in the latest issue of the International Journal of Sports Medicine, conducted a study examining sprinting performance at the point that rehabbing players were allowed to return to sport...
Program Design Thoughts: Intermediate Level Athletes
In a previous post ( http://wp.me/p1XfMm-c4), we discussed an athlete’s strength and conditioning career as something that moves through several phases. First the athlete builds their physical and motor skill foundation. Then,...
Training acceleration
For a sprint coach, a sprint is broken into several phases. The start, acceleration, maximum velocity, and speed endurance. The start includes reacting to the starting gun and getting out of the...
Baseball Speed and Agility, Part 2
This post is going to present a series of drills for baseball speed and agility. Some of these are for offense, some are for defense. We’ll fit these drills into the bigger...