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?
Training Concepts, Recovery and Knee Rehab with Buddy Morris
These videos made me realize what I needed to do in order to preserve longevitiy in doing what I love…lifting!!
MMA Rope Conditioning
Rope training is one of the premier tools you can use in your quest for victorious MMA conditioning.
Speed Development
An athlete with more power has greater torque, leading to a quicker athlete with more top end speed.
How to Introduce Power Phases for Athletes
For athletes, it’s important to build strength levels using the big exercises—the squat, deadlift, bench, pull-ups, and other similar movements.
How to Use the Sled for Virtually Everything
How many of you in the “elitefts™ family” have a sled, Prowler®, or homemade version of one of these?
Training Principles: The Science Behind Improving Athletic Performance
There are many different schools of thought, each with their own ideas on how to train athletes in order to increase athletic performance. So how does one know which particular program will work for any given athlete?
Overview of Periodization Methods for Resistance Training
This is a must read for any trainer, coach or athlete interested in the programming of training.
Simple Speed: Training the Young Athlete
For many years, speed was considered some mystified aspect of sport performance that was measurable but unchanging.
10 + 1 Tips for Strength Coaches
Having worked my way through the ranks to be a collegiate strength coach, I’ve picked up a few things that other coaches can use to improve their own careers.
Do the Pros Look to Little League for Advice on Pitching?
In the studies conducted on youth and adult pitchers, it was established that most injuries occur from overuse.
The Force-Velocity Curve
Periodization is an important topic in the strength and conditioning world.
EFS Classic: Top Five Lifts for Football
If you’re a football coach or a strength coach for football, check this out. It may give you some ideas.
Everyone Needs One of These...
I’m sure that if I stay on my PC for a while longer, I could come up with more reasons, but here’s what immediately comes to mind…
6 Things I’ve Learned So Far This Season
We’re just over halfway through the season with twenty-two games played and, if successful in the playoffs, the prospect of sixteen more without any time off for good behavior.
The Strength & Conditioning Internship: A Simple Guide for Strength ...
Young coaches spend a great deal of time on program design, sets, reps, percentages, and every new drill or exercise that appears on the internet.
Antagonistically Facilitated Shock Training
Antagonistically facilitated shock (AFS) training describes a novel manner in which to perform shock training or, as it’s more commonly known, plyometrics.
Better Basketball: Ten Minutes to Better Handles, Hoops, and Hercules Ty...
Having been a basketball player myself, I’m aware of the many challenges a basketball player faces both on and off the court.
Explosive Hip Development for MMA
If you’re a fighter and want to dominate your competition, what do you need?
The Strength & Conditioning Internship: A Simple Guide for Strength ...
I was introduced to the writings of Patrick Lencioni via an audio interview with Joe Kenn on EliteFTS.com.
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.
EFS Classic: GPP for High School Freshmen
We tested all of the athletes on the four core exercises. No one reached any of the goals.
MMA: Painful Training for the Big Fight
If we get a bit uglier year by year through our craft…maybe we should work a bit more on defenses.
The Strength & Conditioning Internship: A Simple Guide for Strength ...
Organizing and implementing a quality internship program can enhance the overall goals of your strength and conditioning program, which has limited budgets and resources.
The Thinking Beast: The Necessity of Being a Consummate Individual
I won’t focus on only one field because I want to do the best I possibly could in each field.
elitefts™ Classic: Athletic Preparation or Destruction
The Process of Attaining Sports Mastery (PASM) is a multi-year and tremendously complex endeavor. The PASM encompasses the training and development of every conceivable physical, psychological, technical, and tactical component of sport performance.
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.”
Seven Lessons of a Transfer Athlete
An often overlooked group in collegiate sports are the people who aren’t with a team from freshman year through senior year.
Guide to Implementing and Troubleshooting the Hang Clean
Olympic lifts are one of the most polarizing topics in the sports performance world.
EFS Classic: Coaching Axioms
Recently, I was able to observe a high school football team lifting. While the coaches sat in the corner and talked, the athletes proceeded to do their version of a power clean.
Remove the Extensor Block for a Faster Sprint
Just like the most effective bar path in powerlifting is a vertical line, there are optimal directions for movement in sports.
Plyometric Considerations for Young Athletes, Part I
Plyometrics (jump training) is a great tool for improving an athlete’s speed, power, explosiveness, elasticity, eccentric strength, and other aspects of the neuromuscular system such as rhythm, balance, proprioception, movement coordination, and agility.
Plyometric and Strength Program for Provincial Men’s Basketball Team
The following plyometric and strength training program is designed for use during the pre-competition phase
Strongman Training–The Iron Sport Method
A lot of internet trainers write a lot of articles about strength training, but really have no personal success in the strength world.
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.
Life Lessons from My Football Years
I thank God for football and I would not be where I am today without it.
Education and Relentless Self-Experimentation for Trainers
My personal training philosophy is to use any and all available tools that allow me to maintain a strong, flexible, and conditioned body to maximize my health.
A Standard Template for the Strongman Competitor
The following is a program that I’ve put together over the last few years by doing research and trial and error (otherwise known as ‘under the bar’ research).
EFS Classic: Your Body is a Barbell – No Dumbbells, No Barbells, No Problem
Muscles are just plain dumb.
Seriously Incorporating Strongman...Seriously
Strongman training has always been considered circus sideshow-ish.
Nine Things Young Athletes Need to Master
So, hopefully if we all continue to do our jobs really well, every coach will be educated on proper exercise execution.
Psychology for the Strength Athlete
Using the power of the mind is a very underrated tool in today’s world of strength athletics.
Looking Back on What Worked This Summer
Looking back, I think it was a highly successful summer of training.
Build More than Muscle and Strength in Your High School Weight Room
A structured off-season training program will do wonders for your in-season success.
The Road to a National Championship from a Physical Preparation Perspective
The individual training sessions were designed with an overall emphasis on restoration between training, practice and games.
By the Strength Coach for the Strength Coach
These articles will focus on collegiate strength and conditioning and issues associated with the profession.
Angry Coach: How Teams Work
Or would you rather win a championship? That’s something we all get to choose.
What Speed Training Really Means
There isn’t any shortage of information when it comes to speed development for both the track and non-track athlete.
Tips and Tricks for Rehabbing and Preventing Common Sports Injuries
When your training is going well, your body is able to recover better.
The Angry Coach: Who are you?
Everything is a competition to this guy. Even in a basic email exchange, he has to get the better of you. To some people this is probably grating. To me, it’s funny, and it’s also a valuable lesson in realizing that it pays to be “on” and paying full attention at all times.
What Coaching Youth Athletes is Really About
Know your athletes, care about their success, and do things right!
Kinetic Energy Accumulation Training
Preview from the author’s book. Christian’s work can be found at www.Testosterone.net
College Recruiting for the Non-Blue Chip Player
The number one reason you aren’t getting recruited is because coaches don’t know that you exist.
