Wear an ipod or music player while training by yourself! It gets lonely and sometimes un inspiring training on your own!  When your season ends you should first take a week or two off. Let your body rest up and your mind be refreshed. Watch more movies then usual, read books, rest and relax. Sounds crazy […]

Pitchers should refrain from throwing for at least two to three months per year and avoid competitive pitching for at least four months per year. In 2014, USA Baseball and MLB teamed up to establish Pitch Smart, a series of practical, age-appropriate guidelines to help parents, players and coaches avoid overuse injuries and foster long, […]

Stride length training offers hockey players the chance to have their “breakout” year because if they have never trained it properly before, this type of training can turn a good athlete into a great athlete. It’s very well established in sports science that getting stronger can improve your overall functional outputs and lead to an […]

Yes, my body is failing. But my mind is not giving up. The way I look at it is, as I lose physical abilities, that strength doesn’t leave me. It just gets transferred Dear 22-year-old Tim, I want to tell you some things I think you, a senior linebacker at Penn State, should know — […]

Our bodies are designed to move in all different directions, yet over time we start to sit more and move less. As swimmers look ahead to the new year of training and racing, they look for ways to take those experiences to the next level. The obvious place to start, and most commonly seen around […]

There will be a tendency for player to want to stickhandle before the shot but we want them to push the puck into a position where they can release the shot. The Off-Hand Pull and Push is an effective skill for zone entry as well as changing the angle of the shot. Here are a […]

Programs should utilize multi-joint multi-planer exercise that enhances the nervous systems’ ability to recruit subsystems (muscle synergies) through improved coordination of muscles working together as a unit. Introduction: In athletics, muscles work in coordinated synergies to create movements and accelerate, decelerate and stabilize forces. Athletic movements that are recruited by the nervous system are termed muscle synergies. […]

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Listening seems like the obvious thing to do, but it’s also the hardest. Our belief that our position is objectively correct means that we don’t want to hear anybody else’s. In a perfect world, every player would follow direction on the first ask and every decision would be met with no resistance. But volleyball is […]

The phase of the season, the match and the personnel. My role, typically, is to maintain stability, so the tone is typically calm and action oriented. Player development is high on the list of coaching responsibilities. Hours are spent crafting practice plans that help athletes improve. But coaches must remember that their own skill development […]