training
The Beauty of Quiet Technique
If you're looking to be strong, improve durability, and look better, quiet technique will get you there with less wear and tear. Here are implications and executions of this technique using a variety of exercises.
Coaches and Parents, Pay Attention!
Let's get inside the minds of the high school athletes working towards a collegiate scholarship. I interview five athletes who share their goals, sacrifices, regrets, and suggestions for coaches and parents reading this.
Specialty Bars for Collegiate Baseball and Softball Athletes
These sports require a high degree of mobility and stability through the shoulder, place a great deal of stress on the shoulder and elbow, and require an effective and efficient synchronization of the upper and lower limbs—the perfect storm for a specialty bar to keep you safe and sound.
What Do Athletes Really Need?
Athletes need to be better at their sport. Period. Coaches, fine-tune your needs analysis with precision so you can respectively answer the question above through program design.
A Fresh Perspective for Training Athletes
Unfortunately, so many coaches only focus on performance because that's how they were coached.
#54 pt. 1-3 - Dave Tate's Table Talk is BACK
Dave Tate's Table Talk is BACK for the 2nd season and the first episode back covers strength topics such as surgery, autoregulation, and more.
The Exercise Selection Chart
Let me walk you through a new weight room and share my processes for creating an exercise selection chart to best meet the needs of your athletes.
The End of the Unilateral Vs. Bilateral Debate
Do you swing more towards one side than the other? I can tell you that I did. So, we decided to try a progression to work both single-leg and double-leg exercises. Here is what the eight weeks looked like for our athletes.
The X Factor
I'm giving more emphasis on "core" than I have ever before. After four weeks of adding in this X work, it's amazing how much better our athletes feel and look while running, doing agilities, and lifting.
Training the Modern-Day Baseball Player
I'm talking about the athletes that play one sport and one sport only year-round. In short, build trust and DON'T be afraid to lift your athletes. Here's what a yearly plan looks like.
A Coach's Guide to General Physical Preparedness
To reach peak performance, you must build a solid foundation dedicating time to GPP. Here's how to widen the base with GPP, when to use it, and how to implement it. Download the GPP Giant Circuit to get started.
12 Tips for a Stronger, Safer, More Efficient Bench Press
Lifting, and the bench press for that matter, is not rocket science, but you do need to use your brain. Use these twelve tips to fix your damn technique and showcase all of your strength.