When it comes to optimization of your team workouts, organization is key. In this blog, I will cover a few areas you can address in effective and efficient workouts to accommodate large numbers of athletes in your weight room. Facility Setup and Layout The first component is to look at the setup of your facility [...]
As fans of sports and coaches of athletes on many levels, we tune in daily to see amazing feats of athleticism. Agility is a major contributor to these “feats”. There are three important agility training components: acceleration, deceleration, and balance. The athlete’s ability to accelerate and decelerate both linearly and laterally is necessary to compete [...]
My sophomore year in High School I took a careers test, like all of us have done. I was rather confused when my results came back and indicated that I would make a great air traffic controller. I thought that was about as far from what I wanted to do in life I quickly dismissed [...]
Designing group workouts in a facility that caters to personal training, members, and group training takes some careful pre-planning and thought. The program needs to be structured to maximize work time and minimize rest time. This also needs to be done in a way to keep equipment available for members and personal training clients, but [...]
One of the hot topics in the world of strength & conditioning and sports performance is how to actually train for improving agility. The debate comes down to the definition of agility and how it differs from change of direction, and ultimately what you are actually training. There is one significant difference between the two [...]
Recently I had the opportunity to work with a freshman team sports physical education class. I don’t remember what our first unit was, but I remember what I did on day one. I started with agility drills. I figured if we were going to be teaching a group of youngsters how to play sports, we [...]
In every sport played on two feet, there is always a need for speed. Some individuals are born fast, with beautiful technique, but most of us can improve our speed with some good coaching. Today we are looking at the role the arm and hands play in speed development. These tips can be used on [...]
Aside from performing the box squat to reinforce good squatting technique, the exercise itself has restorative qualities. It allows an athlete to squat twice a week without causing over-training or overuse injuries because the exercise is performed with a sub-maximal load (50-75% of 1 repetition maximum). Another advantage the box squat provides is the athlete [...]
The squat is one of the cornerstones of the Trojan Power Program. We teach movements rather than “lifts” in our facility, and the squat is one of the first movements we incorporate, making it essential that students have a solid squat foundation to build upon. Wall Squats To start, I suggest taking athletes to a [...]
The Back Squat and Its Relation to Sport Last year I wrote an article that stressed the importance of the back squat and how it related to sport. For instance, virtually all sports, with the exception of water sports, cycling, and polo, are “ground-based,” meaning the athlete’s legs are in contact with the ground throughout [...]
