Solving the Summer Challenges of Coaching Collegiate Athletes
With summer programming for athletes, control what you can control and don’t sweat the rest.
Lessons from the 2015 CSCCa Conference
In constant strive to get better as a coach and staff, these six things will prove useful.
Are You Consuming, Producing or Engaging?
Proper communication and behavior requires a firm understanding of your surroundings and of those with whom you interact.
Investigating University of Maryland's Strength and Conditioning Bl...
Coach Hamer interviews strength and conditioning coach Drew Wilson from the University of Maryland to find out how he gets the Terrapins strong and ready for football season.
The Strength Coach's Guide to Squat Variations
The king of all exercises is a crucial teaching tool for your athletes.
Teaching Humility and Success
One of the most important lessons is not learning how to accomplish your goals, but rather how to carry yourself once you do.
'Tis the (Basketball) Season
Build it in the gym, show it on the court -- sample programs to condition your ballers.
Recruiting From Within the Weightroom
Your first impression defines the coach-athlete relationship that determines your program's success.
Having the Courage to Put Your Program Under the Microscope
Being open to criticism from an experienced coach may be what you need to build a better program.
State of the Profession
Strength and conditioning is constantly evolving, never at a faster rate than now.
Use Your Inside Voice and Be Front Stage
A lot of people on this planet can read what you wrote, so choose your words carefully.
Why My Staff Hates Me
When you coach, train, or live, do you do what is best for the group or what is best for you?
By the Coach for the Coach: The Left Coast Edition
How can we work to improve this profession so that we can make a true living?
By the Coach for the Coach: An Interview with Andrew Paul
This month, I will hand over the reins to a good friend and great coach and listen to a great mind, Andrew Paul!
By the Coach for the Coach: Perceptions
How do you let people know that you are good at what you do and get them to believe in you?
By the Coach for the Coach: Exercise Edition
We want to teach that we move objects. We do not allow those objects to move us.
By the Coach for the Coach: Rules for Being a Strength Coach
This is where the art of coaching comes into the picture.
By the Coach for the Coach: Don't Do at 25 What You Won't Do a...
Take a break, read a book, drink a beer, connect with others, and do something that you enjoy outside of work.
By the Coach for the Coach: Don't Try to Be a Ten—Be a Five!
You will know if the athletes respect you when you see them in the grocery store. Do they walk the other way or come up and say hello?
By the Coach for the Coach: The Trip 2013
Enjoy the ride (including a bike ride) because it’s over too quickly.
By the Coach for the Coach: The Ladies Take Over
The strength and conditioning industry—from a woman’s point of view.
By the Coach for the Coach: Be the Bee
In order for the hive to survive and thrive, each bee must know her place in the hive. The same goes for your coaching team.
By the Coach for the Coach: Triphasic Training
To find out more about triphasic training, Todd Hammer interviewed the man behind the magic—Cal Dietz.
By the Coach for the Coach: Stronger Than the Sum of Our Parts
Todd Hamer interviews former professional boxer, Joe Divosevic.
By the Coach for the Coach: Lessons Learned
One’s coaching philosophy and training strategy is shaped by more than personal preference…it is molded by one’s thoughts, experiences, and lessons.
By the Coach for the Coach: Be a Better Coach
I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching about what the goals are for this article series.
By the Coach for the Coach: It Isn't the Strongest of the Species T...
I like to think that, as a profession, we’re much better than we were.
By the Coach for the Coach: Football Camp
If you’re a coach who works with football or any other fall sport, there are many issues that you must address in early August.
By the Coach for the Coach: 10 Things I Learned (or Was Just Reminded of...
Now that we’re into summer, and the spring semester is behind us, I think we must reflect on what we did during the school year.
By the Coach for the Coach: The Trip
Each year for the CSCCa conference, my staff and I take a road trip.
By the Coach for the Coach: Follow the Chain
How do we get an athlete who achieved a certain level of strength to change what he is doing in order to achieve even greater results?
By the Coach for the Coach: Who We Are?!
Who am I? Am I one of the negative people? What are others’ perceptions of me?
By the Coach For the Coach: Using the Dynamic Effort Method Dynamically
As with anything in this profession, we’re only limited by our imagination, so please feel free to show me how you add DE work into your programs.
For the Coach From the Coach: We Are Educators
“When you think of a strength coach, you think of loud music, yelling, and chalk. We have all that and so much more.”
For the Coach From the Coach: Create a Winning Environment in Your Weigh...
To me, the training environment doesn’t change. All the expectations and styles are present and consistent with every team.
By the Strength Coach for the Strength Coach
These articles will focus on collegiate strength and conditioning and issues associated with the profession.
The Holy Wars; Why I Use Olympic Lifts…Sometimes
I’ve found that I have the best alone time when walking my dogs on a nice morning. A few days ago, it was unseasonable warm here in Pennsylvania, and I was spending some quality time with two of my dogs. I started thinking about training.
An Interview with Pat Ivey, Assistant Athletics Director, Athletic Perfo...
It might seem like I’ve been doing many interviews lately. There’s good reason for this. A few weeks ago, I did an interview for EliteFTS, and I was asked the question, “Who do you feel is getting it done in strength and conditioning?”
An Interview with Cal Dietz
I’m the head Olympic strength and conditioning coach at the University of Minnesota and am currently working with eight sports. These include men’s and women’s hockey, men’s basketball, men’s track and field, men’s swimming, baseball, and men’s and women’s golf.
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