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Bar displacement helps evaluate technique, improve the quality of work, and increase safety. It facilitates orthopedic assessment, exercise setup, coaching assistance, and long-term analysis. It removes the guesswork and saves valuable coaching and athlete time by collecting important information.

My athletes used a 1970s-era isokinetic device called the Leaper as a rack for their warmups. It didn’t offer enough progressive challenges. Split jumps solve that problem. There are several variations to keep interest high.

The most important element in a successful weight room is good coaching. Tech can help or hinder coaches in achieving their goal of maximizing their athletes' potential. These five tips are the “greatest hits” of helpful tech based on years of practical experience.

The majority of elite athletes take antioxidant supplements to reduce muscle damage and improve recovery time. So do many other people. Research suggests that supplementation achieves those goals. But there are some caveats.

It’s common to devote massive amounts of time to developing a training program while positioning proper nutrition on the periphery. Here are six factors to consider in taking on a good sports nutritionist. Even if you can’t afford one, the qualities they embody will help nourish your program and feed your athletes’ appetite for improvement.

To attract athletes to participate in track and field, coaches must be prepared to promote the sport and recruit the talent.

The promise of many new “sport-science” devices is very much alluring; we all want a device that can instantly capture research grade data and wirelessly connect to one’s phone with minimal investment.

Football games have become track meets held in the fall. Have you seen the pads football players wear today? Football players wear compression shorts, tight jerseys, thin shoulder pads, and a weapon called a helmet. Football has become a game of sprinting, jumping, and explosion. Even the pachyderms of the offensive line get drafted based on their 40-times.

“Genuine speed and strength are valued attributes that become compromised when the brain prioritizes protection over performance. Returning the patient to a state where they can access the full capacity of the motor cortex for high-performing, uncompensated muscular movement should be the clinical goal.” - C. Robert Luckey

When looking at the exercise classifications you may think to yourself there are so many movement selections per classification, how do I go about choosing the correct ones. To start beginners off I like to base my selections on the characteristics you are trying to build that cycle. For example, if I want to have a cycle based on speed, I would throw light implements and choose exercises that have more of a speed characteristic to them.

By Marco Altini, HRV4Traning Heart rate variability (HRV) is an important marker of an individual’s physiological stress level. Due to recent technological improvements in terms of computation power and accessibility to...

Coaches and athletes need to be invested in both performance and communication. Holding athletes accountable and being supportive when they fail to perform to the best of their ability is one of the pillars of creating a successful coach/athlete relationship. Good coaches know when to spark enthusiasm with a fiery speech or a soft whisper of “I know you can do this.”