Developing Speed
Speed. Regardless of the sport, speed is essential to success. It is so important that coaches recruit speed, prize and reward it, and spend a lot of time training for it. This...
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Be Strong And Learn To Use It
Strength is an important quality for athletes. Strength has the potential to improve performance and to prevent injuries. It improves performance because it underpins many sports skills. This blog will talk about...
How Much Strength Do We Need For Sports?
I posted something on X/Twitter about the importance of strength for sports. For me, strength is critical for athletes. Strength provides the foundation for speed, for explosiveness, for being able to perform...
Football Running Speed: It Might Surprise You
There is a lot of research out there looking at soccer and basketball and the distances covered by athletes in games. Not only that, but this information is often broken down by...
Thoughts on Organizing Training
Program design isn’t a very complicated thing when we’re just talking about lifting weights. Want to get stronger? Train heavy. Want to become more explosive? Train explosively! The lifts that involve the...