The Physical Requirements That Make a Rugby Player Great
In January 2017, Marc Keys and I embarked upon a labor of love to develop a questionnaire investigating what the various groups of people who make up the rugby industry think are the key elements of the physical preparation of the rugby player. Here are the results.
Why I Don’t Incorporate Agility Training
Perhaps you’ve seen the video of an athlete moving through the agility ladder with his feet hardly visible because they are moving so fast. This remains the common mainstream perception of agility training. Does this, however, actually make athletes more agile on the field?
Developing Your Own Strongman Program
Designing a program that builds agility, speed, strength, and conditioning, while also training the strongman movements, can seem a daunting task. Here’s how I approach it.
Your First Summer of Planning — Schedule and Program Setup as a New Coach
Young coaches often find a spot late in the summer leaving little time to prepare for the year ahead. Here are the planning and scheduling factors to consider as you construct your program.
Performance Elements to Build During Wrestling's Off-Season
The off-season is your time to improve your strengths, fix your weaknesses, and come back better next year. Here are the most important things to consider when planning your training.
WATCH: Two Lateral Speed Drills with Bands to Improve Change of Direction
Increase agility by using bands to reinforce proper positioning and improve motor patterns in an athletic setting.
WATCH: 5 Strategies to Perform More Work in Less Time
Five strategies to add workout density and keep athletes engaged with speed and strength training.
LISTEN: The Power Athlete Podcast
John Welbourn and his coaching crew provide insight into how they create power athletes.
LISTEN: Loren Landow Exposes Methods for Developing Speed, Power, and En...
Olympians, NFL players, MMA fighters—Landow has trained them all. Here’s how he does it.
Eight Great Sports Performance Articles You Need to Read
Some outstanding sports performance articles you may have missed last month
SPTS Weekend: Principles of Increasing Sprint Speed
Athletes sprint. They accelerate and change direction. Joe DeFranco can tell you how to be better at all of this.
Are We Teaching Speed and Quickness?
Somehow, it is universally accepted that if you increase your strength and do running specific drills, you will increase your speed and quickness.
Knowledge and Nonsense: MaxCondition for Performance—Agility
Agility is a necessary factor in athletics. But how can it be improved, and how does it relate to strength and speed?
A Very Ladewski LTT, Part I
My LTT experience usually begins on Thursday— a little earlier than everyone else. During the last LTT in May, I worked with a dozen youth athletes doing some speed training work, and I was invited to do so again this time.
Applicability of Agility Training
Open skill agility drills that more closely mimic the unpredictable nature of competition are lacking in most programs.
Lateral Resistance Band Walks w/ Agility Ladder
Elitefts coach Julia Ladewski performs lateral resistance band hand walks through an agility ladder. Make sure you go both directions.
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.
Old School Weightlifting for In-Season Hockey Training
The new wave in ice hockey strength and conditioning seems to be dominated by “functional” training, which often becomes dysfunctional. Let’s look at our goals for in-season lifting and the factors to consider in professional hockey. I’ll also present my program template for in-season hockey training, which has been used successfully in the American Hockey League (AHL).
Acceleration
In any sport, athletes need to be able to accelerate as quickly as possible to get to the ball or opponent first. As a coach, you must put your athletes in the best possible position to succeed.
