Club Sports Condundrum
The current climate of club sport, in combination with school sport, in Southern California is one in which the majority of athletes are being placed under a degree of physical stress that their bodies are unsuited to handle.
Six Lateral Strength Exercises for Crazy Football Speed
Here are six lateral strength exercises you can use in your training program to ensure that you’re building real world game speed.
Wild Thing: Pitching Strength
It's essential to strengthen the external rotators because the internal rotators will grow exponentially stronger from so much throwing if nothing is done to correct the imbalance.
Improving Your Self-Discipline with Your Training
The most important factor for success isn’t strength, motivation, or hard work—it’s discipline.
Periodization, Training, and MMA, Why All the Confusion?
Have pride in your workouts, only you can get it done!
Applicable Strengths: Our Top Four
My job as a coach is to build the foundation of strength, make them faster, improve the balance of the athletes and increase mobility.
Top 10 Football Training Tools for Under $75
When it comes to football strength training, I’m a simple man.
What Type of C.A.R. Are You Driving?
Strength coaches, our critical off-season is being taken away before our very eyes.
Considerations for Training Offensive and Defensive Linemen
In the sport of American Football, no player is more important and often less recognized than the down linemen.
Meeting the Scale: The Art of Making Weight
Have you ever watched a pre-fight weigh-in and noticed how gaunt and stringy that most fighters look as they get on the scale, only to see them with full cheeks and muscles the very next day as they step into the cage or ring?
How Strong Is Strong Enough? Training Considerations for Track and Field Athletes
The following is an analysis of the strength requirements and the relative importance of maximal strength for different disciplines in track and field.
Chronicles of an Intern: The Art of Coaching
I've often heard that “in order to be the best, you need to surround yourself with the best.”
Leadership Style Discovery in Performance Coaching
Someone doesn’t have to hold a prestigious head coaching position at a Division 1 university or be a C-level executive of a company to be a leader.
Physical Preparation of a Quarterback: Dr. Yessis Project part 2
I was fortunate enough to call upon the efforts of Dr. Yessis to help find out the root mechanical cause in Troy’s throwing and come up with a program to improve him.
Are Injuries Due Mainly to Conditioning or Lack of Conditioning?
In the last few years it appears that the number of injuries to professional and collegiate players, especially early in the season, has increased greatly. Every week you can read...
Moving Ahead
We are all in the same boat—looking for jobs, trying to make money, just finishing school, so what can and should be done to move ahead in this profession and land that dream job?
Top 12 Things Athletes Expect from Their Coaches (from an Athlete’s Perspective)
We expect to be pushed.
Seventeen Football Training Tips for Beginners
If you want to be a great football player, great lifter, and, maybe in the future, a great coach, you need to invest time, effort, and money.
A Weightlifter Consumes a Strength Coach
What is this sport I love so much? It’s a circle of obsession, frustration, success, and injury.
Test Yourself: Strength and Conditioning Standards for the Martial Arts
This article is aimed at mixed martial artists and those wishing to make that transition into mixed martial arts (MMA).
Is Your Coaching Antiquated or Just Heedless?
When position coaches do film breakdowns and pages upon pages of scouting reports, they're being virulently unproductive.
The Super Secret Secret to Becoming a Great Strength Athlete
In this article, I will unveil the truly hidden secret to becoming a successful strength athlete.
























