“Everything we do is completely individualized.” Most strength & conditioning coaches, myself included, have probably spoken some variation of this line at some point in their career in an attempt to better sell and increase the value of their program. Over my few years in the field, I’ve struggled to determine what “individualizing” a program…
“It all comes back to stimulus adaptation, and it’s just finding that point with who ever you’re working with where you can make a difference. What’s the level that they’re competing at, understanding that as deeply as you can, andn then just knowing what tools you have to make that a little bit harder a…
“Do you have these secondary and tertiary plans set if you’re not in a specific situation where it can be successful, it can be safe, it’s what the game demands for that student athlete at that present moment. Are those measures being taken care of prior so that you’re not scrambling and losing your mind,…
In 2013 Land Evans joined us to give coaches a brief lesion in Microsoft Excel. Landon’s talk covers many of the functions that he uses in his daily life as a coach including: 1) Holding Cells 2) Mround 3) Name ranges 4) Data Validation 5) Posting Cells on Multiple Sheets 6) Vlookup 7) Indirect functions…
I had the distinct fortune to sit down and interview 2013 Presenter Henk Kraaijenhof for a second time. During our discussion Henk dives into working with the “middle” versus the extremes in a team setting, specialized strength and specialized exercises, the “90% rule”, technique work, and monitoring the training effects of athletes. Thank you to…
“There’s no modular homes when it comes to strength and conditioning. There’s just to many different interrelated parts that the only ones that we have true control of is what we know, and what we know we don’t know.” Today we are joined by EliteFTS.com‘s Dave Tate to discuss training and coaching. Dave starts out…
“Just because we get accreditation or licensure or something like that passes and it has to be done in order for you to be a collegiate strength coach, well that doesn’t mean it will solve those problems, but I guarantee by sharing our information on how we run things, by looking at how we make…
“It’s necessary to always remember that sport is the art of movement. So, the end all is the improvement of movement. This is the purpose of our work.” This is one of the best, and most influential presentations from The Seminar on the programming I prescribe for my student athletes. I cannot recommend this talk…
