Auditory Observation
Observing the sounds of sports skills gives information about the quality and effectiveness of that skill. Good coaches and good players observe with multiple senses.
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Technical Speed
Live from the NSCA Euro Con, Day 2
Some highlights and some lowlights (There is basis for HIIT in team or racquet sport, yet companies that specialize in this BS pay to present.)
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Bench Press for Speed Part 2
Part 1 outlined the benefits of using a chest-width grip the bench press. Namely, the potential for higher bar speeds thanks to the biomechanical advantage of strong muscles coordinating long levers. Chest passes, jabs, blocking and shoving opponents are among the sports skills that rely on a horizontal pushing motion similar to the bench press.
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The Problem With Optical Timing Gates
Timing gates give inaccurate and misleading results because reaction time, false steps, countermovements, and negative steps are missed.
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Bench Press for Speed Part 1
A narrow, chest or armpit width is the best choice for the bench press from a performance enhancement, transfer, and injury prevention point of view.
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Why Do You Even Lift, Bro?
Resistance Training should be done to improve athletic and technical sport skills, not just to make you bigger, stronger or more powerful. Exercises and particularly which variations of the major lifts should be chosen wisely for maximum transfer to sports performance.
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Some Rules are Made to be Broken
The ten-thousand hours rule is nonsense. Good coaches break it all the time to produce the best athletes in the world.
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In Memory of Joe Glenn: The Importance of Functional Anatomy
One of my earliest mentors passed away recently. Joe Glenn was a professor in the Kinesiology Faculty at the University of New Brunswick. He also served as the Athletic Therapist for the entire varsity sports system with particular care given to the (9-time national champions) men’s hockey team.1 I took all his classes and loved
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FIFA 2022 Upsets, or Why European Teams Underperform Against Non-UEFA Nations
Considering the disparity in rankings, roster value1, international experience, and historical success, Belgium should have dominated Canada. Instead they considered themselves lucky to come out one point victors after being outplayed in nearly every statistical category. They then lost 2-0 to Morocco and failed to make it out of the group stage. Both Germany and Spain
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Reactive Agility
In competition players don’t run 10 metres straight ahead, make a 90 degree cut and run exactly 5 metres before reversing direction back to the starting point. Instead, they must react to the actions and positions of opponents, teammates, and the ball. Consequently, preplanned agility training has received a bit of a bad wrap lately.