Athletic Development – Defining the Field
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Build your athletes from the ground up. Emphasize training movements that connect and coordinate. Start with fundamental movements and add complexity as the athlete’s gain mastery of the fundamentals....
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Doing more is quite seductive. Often when you begin to do more the returns are quite impressive, so the temptation is do even more. The logic is didn’t I just make big improvements by doing more? So y...
Evolution of Strength Training – A Personal Perspective – 51 Years of Experiences (Conclusions/Lessons)
As I wrote this series of posts and reflected on the lessons I learned I wanted to summarize with some practical conclusions so that young coaches and athletes starting out would not make the same mis...
Evolution of Strength Training – A Personal Perspective – 51 Years of Experiences (Part Six)
In the last twenty years as have had the opportunity to work with a variety of sports and I was exposed to many theories and methods, but basically I found that at the end of the day it all came back ...
Evolution of Strength Training – A Personal Perspective – 51 Years of Experiences (Part Five)
Things began to change rapidly with the advent of the full-time professional “Strength Coach.” In the seventies very few colleges had strength coaches and if they did most of their attention was cente...
Evolution of Strength Training – A Personal Perspective – 51 Years of Experiences (Part Four)
Another key milestone in the evolution of my ideas on training in general and strength training in particular was the 1972 AAU Learn by Doing track & field clinic in Sacramento, California. Many o...
Evolution of Strength Training – A Personal Perspective – 51 Years of Experiences (Part Four)
Another key milestone in the evolution of my ideas on training in general and strength training in particular was the 1972 AAU Learn by Doing track & field clinic in Sacramento, California. Many o...
Evolution of Strength Training – A Personal Perspective – 51 Years of Experiences (Part Three)
That spring, in my first track coaching assignment, I got the opportunity to coach one of the best athletes I have ever coached, Sam Cunningham. He became California State Champion in the Shot put tha...
Evolution of Strength Training – A Personal Perspective – 51 Years of Experiences (Part Two)
Through articles in Strength and Health and watching the track team at Fresno State weight train I quickly realized that the sport of track & field was very advanced in the use of weight training....