The Harsh Realities of Training Athletes
Every profession has something to prepare for… Here are 10 things to consider as a new coach.
The Importance of Strength Training for Young Female Athletes
Female athletes require good coaching and programming, just like their male counterparts. However, our industry frequently does them a disservice. Let’s change that.
Physics 101 for Performance Enhancement
If you understand the science of physics and how to apply it, you’ll have a better understanding of sports and performance enhancement. You owe it to your athletes to understand the fundamentals. Let’s get started.
Register Today: Upper Mid-West Sports Performance Symposium
On July 14th and 15th at Southside Athletic in Burnsville, Minnesota, Jim Jarvis will be hosting the Upper Mid-West Sports Symposium. Click here to register.
LISTEN: Just Fly Performance Podcast Episode 16 with Guest Mark Watts
Most athletes will forget the win-loss records of their teams, but they won’t forget the way the coach treated them. This podcast episode focuses on the impact coaches can have on young athletes outside of sets and reps.
Accommodation vs. Specificity: Battle of the Training Concepts
Specificity tells us we become best at the things we do most often, but accommodation tells us that we become stale from the things we do most often. What’s the answer?
WATCH: elitefts Fitness Professional Summit — That's It?
Two words forever changed JL’s perspective on what it means to grow a business.
Loaded Carries for Improved Body Position and Health
The farmer’s walk is the single best exercise you’re not doing for shoulder performance, posture, and health.
Programs to Stimulate Size and Strength Gains
I have collated a few of my most result-producing programs for you to try, from both a sports performance perspective and also general training for size and strength for the non-sports person.
Learn From the Back to Lead From the Front
In sports performance, sometimes you need to shut up, take a seat in the back of the room, and learn before you are ready to lead from the front.
S&C Meeting of the Minds — History, Athlete Development, and In-Seas...
This article was conducted in collaboration with David Kitchen (Bloomsburg University), Matt Clapp (University of Indiana), Ryan Nosak (UNC Charlotte), and Parker Showers (University of Cincinnati).
Programming for the Loose Forwards in Rugby
A loose forward must be one of the fittest players on the field. This requires a specialized approach to the strength and conditioning program.
Three Coaching Cues You Need to Avoid
Most coaches rely on verbal internal cues, which may be the least effective. Here are several alternative options to help your athletes.
WATCH: The CVASP Podcast — How to Use Vertical Jump Data
Jay DeMayo invites Dr. Mann to discuss power and how strength coaches everywhere can better use information collected through athlete testing.
How Good Is Your Huddle?
The huddle has everything to do with your team’s success. What might surprise you is that it also has everything to do with your success in life.
The Dark Side of Coaching: How Secure Is Your Job?
In this profession, you are going to experience career limbo. Sometimes you don’t know where you’re going next — or if you’ll even have a job next season.
My Hateful Eight
In honor of Tarantino’s most recent big-screen release, I’ve decided to release my own Hateful Eight: the eight exercises and training modalities that make me shudder with anxiety, angst, and downright hatred.
Meditation for the Coach: Starting the Recovery Process
If you spend all your time in high gear, you need to find a way to downshift. This technique is what works for me.
On-Court Results with APRE Cluster Method
We’ve utilized Mann’s method with great results as written and with a few tweaks — breaking up the fourth set is just what our basketball players needed to bust through their strength plateau.
WATCH: Darden Q&A From the Compound — Weightlifting for Strongman, D...
Clint answers your questions: Olympic weightlifting for Strongman performance? Sumo or conventional deadlift stance?
Improve Performance on the Field: Individualize, Prioritize, Optimize
Communicating with your athletes and ensuring you have a mutual understanding of goals and systems is vital to improving the physical capabilities of your players.
All Movement Begins in the Brain
No matter the athlete, the ability to move is the most important function to build. Sometimes, it’s best to slow things down.
Music As A Performance Enhancer
Could your favorite (or least favorite) songs work as psychophysiological performance enhancers? Let’s turn to research for the answer.
Who Influences You?
How you learn and who you listen to will determine whether or not you keep growing in this industry.
WATCH: Hypertrophy Circuits for Athletes in a Team Setting
Offering a standardized program of muscle-building protocols can keep your athletes engaged and motivated to complete the training demands.
WATCH: Pre-Workout Circuits to Optimize Training Time and Maximize Perfo...
Training a high number of athletes in a limited number of time poses unique problems for timing and extensive warm-ups. Use these quick and efficient protocols to streamline team workouts.
LISTEN: The Last Sports Performance Podcast
It’s been a good two years and 64 episodes with elitefts and the Sports Performance podcast. Mark reflects on the ending of a great chapter.
Alternatives to Traditional Size and Fitness Programming
The best program for muscle hypertrophy and aerobic capacity extends the training perspective to a year-long pursuit of improved fitness.
CVASPS: Will You Be There?
This whole thing has always been and always will be about helping coaches get better, so we want to have any many involved as possible. That’s why we price it the way we do and offer the options we do because if we can limit the financial burden, it allows more coaches to be involved. - Jay DeMayo
Now Available: Sprinting Problems, Prowler Solutions
Joe DeFranco takes an in-depth look at how to use a variety of tools – including the elitefts Prowler – to help push your athletes’ speed to the next level!
WATCH: Why Communication is Key to a Better Coaching Career
Clear pathways of communication can optimize relationships and elongate careers.
Improve Sleep to Optimize Performance
In episode 158 on Barbell Shrugged, Dr. Kirk Parsley explains how sleep is the number one thing that will make you better at everything.
The National Strength And Conditioning Association Joins With Volt Athle...
Technology on the forefront of strength & conditioning
The Truth About Energy Systems (Part 2)
The breakdown of food and the conversion of nutrients to energy coincides with the body’s regulation of multiple energy systems.
WATCH: Becoming a Mentor to Young Coaches
Use this video to develop a comprehensive and meaningful curriculum to guide young coaches and build a future for this industry.
WATCH: How to Find a Strength and Conditioning Job
You don’t go from college graduate to Buddy Morris overnight. Here’s a step-by-step guide to building a career in the most cut-throat profession.
Drexel University Sport & Exercise Science Clinic
Josh Bryant, Joe Giandonato to headline Drexel University Sport and Exercise Science Clinic in April
Understanding Your Role as Strength Coach
Your influence on the team will make or break every meeting, training session, and game. Here’s one simple way to remember how you should act.
LISTEN: Jay DeMayo's Rules for Transitioning to In-Season Training
The Head S&C Coach from the University of Richmond shares how to shape an annual training model.
Eight Great Sports Performance Articles You Need to Read
Some outstanding sports performance articles you may have missed last month
Is Your Functional Movement Screen Helpful?
The FMS might be the secret to healthier, more powerful athletes. But maybe it isn't.
Promo: Elitefts Sports Performance Training Summit
A brand new event by elitefts premieres this weekend. Will you be there?
Speaker Spotlight: Joe Kenn
If you want to be the best strength and conditioning coach you can be, go listen to Joe Kenn speak.
WATCH: Teaching the Athletic Power Position
This position can serve as a basic starting point for the Power, Rack, Catch, Jumping, or Landing Positions.
elitefts Sports Performance Training Summit
Register NOW for the inaugural event, guaranteed to make you a better coach. #SPTS15
LISTEN: Biochemistry and Biomechanics of Sport Performance
The newest guest on the Sports Performance Podcast shares an exclusive section from his ebook.
Guidance from Veterans: Advice from the Best Female Coaches
Fourteen strength coaches with DI experience provide insight on what it takes to succeed.
Elitefts™ Board Press for Sports Performance
Modify your board press technique when training for athletic development
Challenges the Best Female Strength Coaches Face
Overcoming obstacles in strength and conditioning is what separates the best from the rest.
S&C Industry Leaders Talk Shop
What happens when three of the most influential coaches sit down at the elitefts compound?
Strength Coach Podcast with Jeff Connors
Interview with ECU strength coach and author of “A Call to Serve.”
Who's the Mann?
Interview with Bryan Mann, University of Missouri Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning and Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training.
LISTEN: Off-Season NFL Training with Brett Bartholomew
Brett Bartholomew is one of the brightest young strength coaches in the industry, listen to this podcast and hear why.
Elitefts Sports Performance Podcast: The Spot Athletics
Interview with JL Holdsworth and Nic Bronkall of The Spot Athletics.
Buddy Morris: The Next Chapter
Back as the Head Strength Coach at the University of Buffalo, Buddy Morris takes time to talk shop.