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Michael Tankovich, PT, DPT, ATC, L/AT, CSCS, Physical Therapist/Assistaint Athletic Trainer, Seattle Seahawks Football Club One of the sharpest minds in sports medicine and recovery science is Michael Tankovich, a...

One of the top strength and conditioning coaches, Ryan Reynolds is currently an assistant with UCLA Football. In this interview Coach Reynolds addresses questions about Olympic lifting for softball hitting power, lower body development for tall athletes, speed development of football players, bilateral movement, and periodization.

Seattle Sounders Performance Director David Tenney sits down with Carl Valle to discuss the current challenges of professional sport.

What is Usain Bolts top speed in miles per hour? Let's take a look at his 100 meter splits to find out.

The primary reason we do jumping exercises is to exploit the stretch-shortening cycle of the legs to improve the use of elastic energy. The rationale for using box jumps in directly improving this quality is questionable because the very nature of plyometric exercise is creating an overload that box jumps do not accomplish very effectively.

Fifteen years ago I found a better way of coaching sprinters.  To sum it up, I began coaching quality over quantity.  You don't get fast by running slow.

One of the biggest sports legends is Bo Jackson, an athlete who was an excellent football and baseball player in the 80s and early 90s, before a hip injury cut off his athletic career short. His highlights were memorable, gunning down runners with a rocket arm, running up walls to make amazing catches, and rushing out of the stadium on Monday Night football against Seattle. Tied to his legendary status, was his infamous 40 yard dash time, reportedly 4.12. But did Jackson actually run sub 4.2 seconds. Here is some compelling data to answer that question.

“Coach” Bill Pressey is a conditioning specialist for equine sports and is one of the shining stars in horse race training today. He owns a company that specializes in conditioning horses with solid sports science and in this interview shares some great insights from equine sports. California Chrome failed to win the Triple Crown (predicted by Pressey by the way) and there are many lessons to be learned by coaches who work with human athletes.

This article is an overview of the methods and devices for measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of the aerobic system, heart rate monitoring strategies, resting heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), heart rate recovery analysis, and the TRIMP training load for team sports.

Brisbane Broncos Rugby coach Dan Baker is one of the world’s leading authorities of strength and power training for sports athletes. In this interview Coach Baker responds to questions about his practical experiences training elite athletes including topics about career development, injury prevention, in-season training, athlete testing, and data collection.

Self-myofascial release and foam rolling have become extremely popular. This article includes a taxonomy of myofascial measurement techniques and physiological responses to better quantify the effects on sprint performance.

In this article we explore a taxonomy of plyometrics, a review of take off and landing types, athlete career development considerations, and track season periodization.