I was a strength coach at Columbus Academy about 12-15 years ago. I was doing my darndest to get as many sports into the weight room as possible. I just felt that each team could reap the benefits. Not every sport head coach agreed. Which isn’t too far-fetched. Some coaches are old school and just [...]
One of the frequently asked questions that we get is if we can train your particular athlete for whatever sport they are playing. My simple answer is yes, but it is more complicated than that. If you want to do training for a particular sport, you should really do it for more mature athletes i.e. [...]
When athletes start working with us, their parents usually ask, “Is this something we will have to do forever?” Which is a good question since our service is a paid service. They don’t want to sacrifice their college savings for this. Unless, they are gambling that this will pay off in a college scholarship [...]
There are a lot of individuals in my industry – the industry of making athletes faster. Some do a great job and others need to brush up on their stuff. I feel like an airlines when I say to our athletes, “I know you have a lot of choices out there so we thank you [...]
When you break down running, it is a series of single leg explosions. The faster and more explosive you are with each leg, the faster you will run. Your goal is to have your foot quickly get off the ground, but in that split instance it is touching the ground, you need to generate a [...]
One of the big mantras for speed training is you have to train fast to be fast. You can’t do a speed drill slow and expect to develop speed appropriately. You can do that exercise slow, it just might be affecting a different physiological component for your body. For example, doing heavy sled runs might [...]
This past weekend, there were three new people elected into the baseball hall of fame. One of them was Tim Raines who played for the New York Yankees. Raines was probably the second best leadoff man in his era to Rickey Henderson. He led the National League in stolen bases for several years. If Raines [...]
This past weekend I was at the NSCA Ohio State Clinic and listened to a lot of great speakers. One of the speakers, Chris Powell, talked about developing linear speed. This is essentially your straight ahead running and how fast you can get your first initial steps of acceleration. For most athletes, developing linear speed [...]
I have sat down with so many parents in my career discussing their athletes that I can probably sound off the reasons they want to do speed/strength training. Get Faster/Stronger Rehab An Injury Make My Team Make All-State Play In College And The List Goes On But, one reason that I hear every so often [...]
If you talk with track coaches they say that one of the big muscles groups that needs to be worked on. When Tiger Woods was going through some injury issues awhile back, some analysts said that his glutes weren’t firing right. They need to start activating. Now don’t tell Tiger this, but I know the [...]