Speed Training And Soccer
Background Soccer has always been a challenging sport for the strength and conditioning professional, especially when it comes to speed training. Over the years I’ve seen everything from having the athletes jog...
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Practical Hamstring Training For Sports
The hamstring muscle group is critical to athletic success. It has a role in sprinting, jumping, agility, throwing, hitting, kicking, in other words just about every athletic movement. In addition, care of...
Using Resisted Sprints
In a previous post (http://wp.me/p1XfMm-iq), I reviewed the current state of knowledge about resisted sprints. With this post, I’d like to talk a little about how they can be used in an...
What Do We Know About Resisted Sprinting?
The October 2014 issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research has articles by Kawamori et al and Bachero-Mena and Gonzalez-Badillo on resisted sprinting. This presents a great opportunity to take...
Don’t Let Fly Balls Trip Up Base Running
I find that with younger baseball players pop flies are something that can get base runners into a lot of trouble. I try to coach young baseball players to commit to running...