Is It Block Training, Concentrated Loads, or...?
I’ve been reading with interest—and amazement—the many articles that have been appearing lately on the use of the “block” method.
Real World Testing for Football Players: It Isn't Just a Numbers Game
Players spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours each year preparing for combines at all levels.
Is Sports Practice Rationally Constructed?
Attention coaches: consider the athletes you coach and how they move during contests.
Partial Lifts, Sleds, and Concentric-Only Lifts for Super Football Stren...
If there’s one area where most football players really drop the ball, it’s in-season strength training.
Youth Sport Training Considerations
Setting the stage for sport success when it counts- begins when it doesn’t.
Why Monster Trucks Shouldn't Be Driven in the Express Lane
An exercise or training program’s success or failure is rooted in the execution of its work.
Constructing a Strength and Conditioning Program for College Hockey
When developing the strength and explosiveness program for the University of Pittsburgh men’s hockey team, there were several factors I had to take into consideration as a coach. Hopefully my experience thus far will help you in similar situations.
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Football Strength Training Programs
Just as all great football teams have common traits (good defense, team work, great coaching), all football strength programs share common qualities that set them apart from the pack.
RDLs Are For Everyone
Whether you are a strength athlete, powerlifter, Olympic lifter, or just into general fitness, the RDL is one of the best exercises around.
Top Five Kettlebell Exercises for Football Strength
Kettlebells are a perfect tool when it comes to building strength, explosiveness, and flexibility for football.
Shaun's MMA Fight Recap
I needed boxing training as well, that is a must for me. I found that boxing really helped my style all around.
Did Your Hard Work Pay Off? Dr. Yessis Project: Part 3
Now that the summer is winding down and the fall season is upon us, it is time for strength and conditioning coaches to see if all of their hard work paid off.
How I Train
Anyway, this is what’s been working like a charm for me. If anyone has any questions, I’d be happy to clarify whatever you need.
Club Sports Conundrum: Part II
The solutions to these problems are as multi-faceted as the nature of the problems themselves
Five Ways to Improve 'On the Field' Speed
Not only does speed kill, it wins games and wins championships.
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.
The Greatest Program in the World
Choosing the “right” program can be an intimidating decision. The truth is, this might not be as critical a decision as you think.
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!
Power Clean for the Strength Athlete
Whether your sport is powerlifting, strongman, football or any other “strength” sport, the power clean should be part of your workout plan.
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.
Eight Problems
I’m known on here as the “Angry Coach,” but as we all know, the longer you coach, the angrier you get.
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...
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.
What Do You Do Now That Basketball Season Is Over?
The basketball season is just coming to an end for many high schools, and it won’t be long before many of the players are off to their AAU teams.
Football: Summer Program Begins
I’m still convinced that you can talk them into this, and that you can talk kids into doing anything, or believing they can do anything. The military does it every day.
Ask The Thinker
This is why I have long since abandoned the debate over exercise selection that does not fall within the realm of special physical preparation.
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?
Are Injuries Due Mainly to Conditioning or Lack of Conditioning?
Teams keep hoping that their players will not get injured.
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.
The Top Five Components of Building a National Title Contender in the Ph...
It seems that the craze of sport-specific training has created a backlash against heavy lifting with basketball athletes.
Midsection Madness for MMA
The definition of one’s core has gotten lost in translation over the years and we need to better understand what it really is.
Did EliteFTS Influence the March Tournament?
I don’t know about you, but that’s motivating as hell for me.
Olympic Lifting: Why Do We Suck?
We are the United States, home of the free and apparently land of the weak
How Adults Ruin Youth Sports
Like many of the readers of EliteFTS, my son is now old enough that we’re getting involved in organized sports.
Implementation of Sub-Maximal Percentage Work within Main Movements of S...
Many factors affect the optimal training status of the athlete for his upcoming season, but this paper will focus on that of maximal strength.
Ten Prowler Variations
We have come to love but also hate the Prowler, but none of us can deny the benefits of this equipment in terms of building strength, endurance, speed, and also mental toughness in our athletes.
Teaching the Power Clean
The power clean is the best lift for power and explosiveness and should be included in all strength and conditioning programs.
Functional Muscle
Bodybuilding is a sport and the only people who should train in a predominantly bodybuilding oriented style are bodybuilders.
The Four C's of Coaching Young Athletes
In examining my current and past young athletes, four things have made me successful in training this demographic.
Top Nine 'Get Faster for Football' Exercises
Steve discusses nine movements to make you faster for football.
Secrets of Training During the Basketball Season
This article will hopefully serve as a guide to you whether you’re a player, coach or strength coach.