Speed for Sports
Borrowing terminology from track and coaches, most field and court sport athletes rarely get to maximum velocity. Most field and court sport athletes do not get the chance to run in a...
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Athletes Apply Force in a Horizontal Direction
Athletic strength and conditioning has two purposes, prevent injuries and give athletes the physical tools for success. One of the challenges that a strength and conditioning coach has with this is that...
Sprinting vs. Hurdling
Hurdling is considered a sprinting discipline. Many coaching texts point out that athletes don’t jump over hurdles, they run over them. Jimenez-Reyes et al, in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research,...
Assisted Sprinting
In 1978 an article was published by a Soviet athlete, coach, and sport scientist named Ozolin on the speed barrier (see https://www.cissik.com/blog/2012/02/classic-article-ozolin-and-the-speed-barrier/ for a summary). Essentially the article said that if athletes...
Shin Splints and Sprinting, Part 3
Shin splints and sprinting part 3 We’ve covered several drills to help with preventing shin splints in sprinting athletes. This post is going to focus on a last type of drill that...