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18/10/2021
Applying Agile and Robust Planning Strategies to Speed Development in Team and Field Sports
By Nathan Kiely on 18/10/2021Field sports are punctuated by high-intensity efforts - the moments that matter most, happen at speed - therefore, S&C coaches should be highly concerned with speed development. To find out more, check out this article by Nathan Kiely.
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14/09/2021
Systemizing and Planning the Warm-Up
By Scott Kuehn on 14/09/2021You spend a lot of time warming your athletes up, rather than just tick a box on making them sweaty. Learn how Scott Kuehn systemizes and progresses his warm-ups to address a variety of athletic qualities and competencies.
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14/02/2021
Conceptualizing Philosophy in Strength & Conditioning: The Barbell Strategy and Risk
By Adriano Arguedas Soley on 14/02/2021In this article, Adriano outlines Taleb’s Barbell Strategy for Risk in Financial Investment and details how high-performance sport programs may benefit from categorizing the risk potential of individual training elements to safeguard sustainability and promote aggressive growth.
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21/12/2020
Fight Camp Planning – a Big Picture Approach
By Lukas Pezenka on 21/12/2020There are different camps when it comes to the best periodization model. Some coaches prefer block periodization, others have achieved great success with linear models. In this article, Lukas Pezenka outlines a narrative-based framework that he used with one of his MMA athletes at the Austrian 2020 nationals.
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19/11/2020
Narrative Approach to Training
By William Wayland on 19/11/2020The training process is often compressed into talk of physiology, stress, biomechanics, and science. These technically are framing devices for one thing, ‘change.’ With any training cycle, technically being about manifesting favorable change in an athlete. Athletes, often do not think like this. They think in the narrative that plants them as the hero of their own story.
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04/11/2020
My View on Olympic Weightlifting for Athletic Development in Team Sports
By Yoeri Pegel on 04/11/2020Part of the beauty of the Olympic lifts is that they allow the athletes to get ballistic intent in, without actually becoming projectiles themselves. Read more on the subject in the following article.
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21/07/2020
The Integrative Approach to Strength and Conditioning
By Adriano Arguedas Soley on 21/07/2020On reading both early and contemporary research, books and case observations, as well as when attending conference presentations, lectures and consultancies, one is amazed by the diversity of models, theories, philosophies, rationales and approaches to address similar problems.
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02/07/2020
Movement Preparation for Soccer
By Aleksa Bošković on 02/07/2020Warming-up seems to constantly be a “hot” topic of strength and conditioning coaches, particularly in team sports such as soccer. In this video, Aleksa Boskovic addresses the warming up in soccer using the three phases. Find out more in the following blog post and video.
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02/06/2020
Let’s Talk About Weekly Plans in Soccer
By Efthymios Kyprianou on 02/06/2020How to adapt weekly soccer plans to different scenarios? Find out in the new article by Efthymios Kyprianou.
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22/05/2020
Mobility as a Warm Up Routine
By Urška Kokelj on 22/05/2020We warm up to prepare our bodies for physical exertion. Several studies have found benefits of including a structured warm-up into training, which provides for increased heart rate, blood flow, increased body temperature, faster muscular contraction, etc. The body is thus prepared for the upcoming workout or competition, both physically and mentally.