The three common strengths the athletes displayed were hard work, dedication, and sacrifice.

The girl steps into the gym for the first time and is met with the smell of sweat and the sound of metal clanging violently.

Your coaching facility should be a place where work is accomplished, goals are met, and pride is instilled.

Forget team, forget coaches, forget any other irrelevant factor.

I like to think that, as a profession, we're much better than we were.

I was known around my gym and by other area lifters as the guy who hit himself, headbutted objects, and always had plenty of ammonia on hand.

Strength and conditioning professionals, including seasoned veterans with many years in the trenches, might find themselves hard pressed to provide rationale for core exercises that they're programming for their athletes.

Self-education is probably the most important factor in being successful. I will take you on a journey to all the sources from which I get my information and how to learn from each.

I have seen many interns who don’t understand that each internship is a test and you need to bust your butt to make that internship into a job.

When you’re an intern at a big school, it’s like you’re a 20-kilogram plate in a weight room.

A great coach knows that he didn't know and does everything in his power to figure it out.

I’m sure you’ve heard before that the pull-up is to the upper body what the squat is to the lower body.

Open skill agility drills that more closely mimic the unpredictable nature of competition are lacking in most programs.

Concentrate your efforts on training the dominant energy system (anaerobic alactic, anaerobic lactic, or aerobic) for your sport or activity.

Key performance indicators are specific, measurable things that tell us whether or not we are making progress toward our goals.

Strength training is a simple process that has become an over complicated “wishing well” for athletic success.

At the literal center of cardiorespiratory health is the heart, a powerful muscle that consists of four distinct chambers—the right atrium, the right ventricle, the left atrium, and the left ventricle.

Each year for the CSCCa conference, my staff and I take a road trip.

How bad do you want to be a great athlete?

Your mind is locked in though, so while the sweat pouring into your eyes may blur your sight, your vision remains clearer than ever.

As a coach, you can essentially program for three different groups of athletes.

Just something to think about when you're in the middle of the learning process – like we all still are.

No matter what sport you compete in, you’ll probably agree that conditioning plays a huge factor in how an athlete performs. If athletes aren’t conditioned properly, they’ll never achieve peak performance in their sport.

Working with youth athletes has been an experience that has taught me several lessons.