It's no secret that there is a definitive link between agility and quickness (change of direction), acceleration, top speed, and vertical jump capacity. 2 A real-world example of this can easily be seen at the Annual NFL Combine each and every year. Top performers routinely turn out great performances in all 3 skill types in skill players. Of course, there are the exceptions and some differences, but as a norm, there is more similarity than difference. Obvious reasons for

Sometimes during this wonderful journey of learning and growing as a coach, you simply miss or underrate training concepts or exercises that you should have been doing. Fortunately, if you are reading this, then I'm going to be providing you with some valuable insight that has somehow managed to stay under the radar for all these years. I should have connected the dots, and usually do when it comes to the practical application of training theory and research, but for some r

In part #1, you were shown some of the foundational reasons why deceleration is so critical to both your short-term and long-term health and performance capacity, and now you will be provided with a short list of active training strategies to ensure you are maximizing your deceleration potential, giving you peace of mind. Here is the list of methods we will explore in this article: Primary Training Methods: -Strength Training -Plyometrics -Specific Deceleration Strategies (Ov

When it comes to staying healthy and performing at an ultra-high level, regardless of the type of sport you compete in, there is zero doubt that being able to decelerate properly will make or break your performance. Look at the likes of Stephen Curry, Lionel Messi, Tyreek Hill, Cooper Kupp, and countless others, and you'll quickly notice that it's all of these individuals' innate and or acquired ability to stop on a dime and gain separation that provides the freedom to contro

Here is a fresh set of training tips to help support your hamstring health. Hamstring injuries are still running rampant in sport and training culture today, and it's at the expense of an athlete's goals and showcasing all of the prior hard work and blood, sweat, and tears that were put into practice. Fortunately, hamstring issues can be either prevented or reduced in severity. Here is a fresh set of training tips to help support your hamstring health. Active stretching durin

I must admit that I'm a bit of a dinosaur when it comes to all of this online marketing and tech-savvy stuff, but I'm learning and getting better every day. Truth is that I've been a fitness and performance writer for almost 20 years and counting. Much of what I wrote originally was for other people and their brands because that was the only way I could get eyeballs on my work, and I was really happy to help. But over the past couple of years, I've moved away and really fo

I thought it would be helpful to coaches, trainers, athletes, and general gym goers if I disclosed my top go-to sled training drills. The sled can seem a bit bland and limited if you look at the web, and it can be difficult to identify variations that satisfy the purpose outside of just pushing and sprinting a loaded sled. Fortunately for you, there are some applications that you can implement with anyone to immediately develop or sustain several training skills which I wil

Common knowledge would tell you that you need to lift relatively heavy to get stronger. In other words, attempt to push as much weight as possible as often as possible with proper form. At least this is what your intuition and ego would tell you, especially when you are highly motivated to attack your lifts in the weight room. But is this approach of maxing out weight often the best road to getting stronger and staying healthy over the long-term? Of course not! Like everythi

In the world of agility and quickness training it is suddenly becoming increasingly difficult to search for and identify original techniques that can benefit an athlete in improving their change of direction ability. Fortunately, I've integrated a series that you can adopt with your athletes that cover a majority of the training need when it comes to agility and quickness development. Remember that after the initial cut or first step strategy the remained of movement is goi

Every athlete wants to get quicker and more agile, either to elude a defender, attack an opponent, or show off to their significant other or someone else in training and competition. Those that can demonstrate greater quickness capacity generally always become victorious. Many strategies for acquiring high amounts of agility and quickness have been proposed and documented up until now, but I want to take a brief moment and discuss some ingredients for success in the context