Warm-Up Protocol Prior to Worksets
By Ben PetersonCoaches always want to know exactly what weights the athletes are lifting and the progress that they are making. Being able to quantify results with actual data not only motivates the...
View ArticlePeaking with the Sport Back Squat
The main question I usually get asked in regards to the sport back squat is, "When do youincorporate this in a training program?" With the sport back squat, what you want to decide onsooner rather than...
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Biometric Tendo Unit Training
One of the unique advantages that a Tendo unit provides is that it gives athletes feedback on bar speed or velocity of power output so that they realize how hard they can train. The unique thing about...
View ArticleProper Breathing for Sports Recovery
An often overlooked component of many programs is restoration and recovery. Coaches attempt to manipulate variables in their workouts, changing intensities, volume, and exercises in order to cause...
View ArticleCoaching the Squat for Taller Athletes
When teaching young athletes to squat, coaches need to remember that squatting isn't a “cookie cutter” exercise. Not everyone’s squatting form is going to look the same. This is especially true of...
View ArticleRecovery Protocols After Heavy Loading of the Posterior Chain
Inversion is a recovery method that helps by decompressing the spinal column and elongating the spinal discs. There is also some evidence that it can help with CNS recovery by decreasing the amount of...
View ArticleUsing Isometrics to Build Strength in Power Lifts
Isometrics came into fame in the 1970s with the idea that they could build enormous strength. They soon fell out of popularity because in essence, isometrics don’t move and so are difficult to measure....
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Maximizing High Quality Reps with High Velocity Potentiation Clusters
Off-season, pre-season, or in-season Strength Coaches are always looking to maximize the number of high quality reps they can get in the weight room from their athletes. A high quality rep is one done...
View ArticleShould All Athletes Squat the Same
The squat is considered a key exercise for athletes as well as fitness buffs. There is no questioning the fact that the squat is a great exercise and it is considered to be the king of all exercises....
View ArticleWhen Should You Initiate Weight Shift?
When you should drive off the rear leg to produce power in the swing is often debated. This applies to not only to the swing in golf but also to baseball, tennis and other sports in which you swing an...
View ArticleA Multidimensional Approach to Enhancing Recovery
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View ArticleDEPTH JUMP VS DROP JUMP-Dr. Natalia Verkhoshansky
In sport training literature, the terms “Depth Jump” and “Drop Jump” are usually understood as synonyms and both of them are used to name the same exercise: a jump executed by droping from a height...
View ArticleThe Importance of Complex Training in Developing Rate of Force Development...
It is no secret that athletes who are larger, stronger, faster and more powerful than their opponents have a higher success rate in sports competition. For most sports competition, however, it seems...
View ArticleHockey (Pre-Season) Peaking Program (Block 5-Speed Strength)
Here is a peaking program for one of my hockey athletes I was fortunate enough to work with this summer (American Hockey League-Texas Stars). The program is a 4 day lift that emphasizes speed-strength...
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View ArticleLatest in Strength and Conditioning - ACSS 2013 Keynote Address - Robert Newton
Latest in Strength and Conditioning - ACSS 2013 Keynote Address - Robert Newton Part 1Latest in Strength and Conditioning - ACSS 2013 Keynote Address - Robert Newton Part 2Notes From Lectures
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Speed and Skill Optimization - A Proposal for a New Practice Paradigm
By Cal Dietz and Jonathon JanzIntroductionIt is often said that the best coaches of any sport know precisely when to push their athletes and when to take their foot off the throttle. Exceptions aside,...
View ArticleParametric Biometric Method
Biometrics are variations of cybernetic programming, which were first invented in the Soviet Union. It essentially is a regulatory process used to figure out how much training and stress an organism...
View ArticleEarly specialization and year-round training is destroying youth hockey
By Josh LevineToday’s hockey culture is damaging youth hockey players’ futures and putting the integrity of our game at risk. Year-round training schedules for the youngest hockey players and the...
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Peaking the Back Squat in Track and Field
By: Cal Dietz and Matt Van DykeAs a coach in track and field, it is essential to know the proper times to peak your athletes in their different abilities; this includes certain abilities developed...
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Understanding Blood Lactate to Optimize Training and Performance
By: Matt Van DykeThe ability of the body to buffer muscle acidity due to anaerobic energy (ATP) production and the accumulation of hydrogen protons is essentially the rate-limiting step in...
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Triphasic Training Metabolic Injury Prevention Running
Aerobic training lays the foundation upon which all other methods of training are built. If this base aerobic training is ignored, specific, high-intensity training cannot be supported in later...
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Applying Triphasic Training Methods to Olympic Lifts
By: Cal Dietz and Matt Van DykeThe means of applying Triphasic Training, from eccentric, to isometric, to reactive can be applied to any lift, even the Olympic movements, if a coach so desires. These...
View ArticleTriphasic Training External Rotation Block Sequencing
Each Block Last 1 to 3 weeks! Sequencing Example 1Block 1Cuban PressBlock 2Cuban Press Standing BandBlock 3Cuban Press Standing Band OCSequencing Example 2Block 1Cuban PressBlock 2Cuban Press Figure...
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Supplementation for Sports Performance – Controlling your Pathways
By Matt Van Dyke, Cal Dietz, and Zac BrouilletteIt is commonly understood athletes involved in explosive competition events must have the goals of increasing muscle mass and maintaining explosiveness...
View ArticleTrue Single Leg Plyometrics-Joel Smith
There are a lot of exercises available for people out there to increase their vertical. Obviously, getting hyped up, going out and training hard on actually practicing jumping higher will yield the...
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The Advantages of Block Training in Athletics
Reaching optimal performance for all athletes in the most efficient manner must remain a top priority for all performance coaches. This goal is exceeded in importance only by reducing injury during...
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Supramaximal Slow Eccentrics and the Safety Bar Split Squat
By Cal Dietz and Matt Van DykeThe Triphasic Training method is implemented with one goal in mind, STRESS. Stressing the body often, and in a different manner each training session, should be the goal...
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The Physiological Basis for Tapering in Endurance, Strength, and Power Athletes
Less Is More The Physiological Basis for Tapering in Endurance, Strength, and Power AthletesKevin A. Murach 1,2,* and James R. Bagley 21Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Health Sciences...
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