As we hope that fall sports is happening, a lot of athletes have been working their butt off getting in the best shape possible. They’ve also been trying to get their speed as fast as they can and their strength as strong as they can. There is one missing element that if addressed, I feel [...]
As much as I can’t stand social media right now, I think I have disciplined my twitter feed to just showing relevant training content from some of the best performance coaches out there. I love reading their stuff and see how I can apply it to my training for my athletes. Recently, I’ve been reading [...]
For people in my industry, this is becoming more and more of an issue. You get an inquiry about your speed/strength services or you are coaching a current athlete and they tell you they are doing training with their team now. Their team started doing speed or strength workouts and they need to do the [...]
The new normal now is to social distance yourself from everyone except who you live with in your immediate household. If you go somewhere else where there are people, be prepared to walk around in your bubble suit. That being said, this takes you away from the gym and any type of working out with [...]
The more I’m researching about training for your athletes, the more excited I get about the information that is out there for them. I’ve recently stumbled across something that I had heard about, but really knew very little about it. It is Heart Rate Variability or HRV for short. What is Heart Rate Variability? HRV [...]
Part 3 of our series of how we got a track athlete (Anna Kessler) faster so she was able to have the necessary speed to make the state 100M finals. The previous two weeks, I discussed the previous season’s times and what the object was for the offseason to get her in a better position [...]
Back in the fall, I wrote a blog post about one of our athletes, Aziza Ayoub, and the program we did with her to help her win the Ohio state track championship in the 800M (twice). You can read about Aziza’s program by clicking here. We were fortunate enough this year to have three athletes [...]
Club sports and year-round training has been a hot topic for a lot of parents of athletes I train. At some point in our conversation, I seem to be saying similar points about less practice and more pickup sports. Everything in an athlete’s training is structured and regimented. If you screw up, you have a [...]
Several of our athletes were competing in their sports’ state championship this past weekend. Lacrosse was one of them while others were in track. I was lucky enough to have an athlete qualify for the state meet from the track team that I coach. This athlete also happened to be my daughter. That being said, [...]
If you can drive, have you ever sat at a red light and then accelerate as soon as you see that green light appear? I’m not saying you are playing the Fast & Furious with your car, just trying to get going as soon as you see that green. Your acceleration will begin based on [...]