Early 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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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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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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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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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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