Performance Requires Systems Thinking
Walk into almost any high-performance environment today and you'll find data everywhere. Force plates. GPS metrics. Wellness
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Personalized Tendon Loading: A Smarter Way to Protect Athletes?
Most coaches think about strength but far fewer think about whether the tendon is adapting alongside that strength. And the
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Strength Then Performance: The Delayed Effects of Transfer
One of the most common assumptions in sport performance is that stronger athletes should immediately become faster athletes. But in
The Real Value of Strength and Conditioning
Ask most people what a strength and conditioning coach does and they'll give a familiar answer: "Help
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Athlete Monitoring: Have We Lost the Plot?
Walk into almost any high-performance environment today and you'll find dashboards. Force plates. Wellness questionnaires. HRV. Sleep
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Enhanced Games: Why World Records Didn't Fall
The Enhanced Games didn't produce the world record performances many expected. That's not surprising. PEDs can
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The Coach's Guide to Acceleration Technique: Injury and Training Implications
This free guide breaks down how different athletes organize sprint acceleration, and how those movement solutions may influence both performance
The Coach's Guide to Acceleration Technique: Injury and Training Implications
Introduction Sprint technique is often coached as if there is one ideal model. But when you watch elite athletes accelerate,
Single-Leg vs Double-Leg CMJ Testing: Comparing Apples to Oranges
Inside our Force Plate Practitioner course, we spend time discussing the difference between the bilateral countermovement jump (CMJ) and the
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Do Recovery Boots Improve Endurance Recovery?
Recovery boots are widely used in sport to improve recovery between training sessions and competitions. While popular, around here we
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Force Plate Analysis of Deadlifting with Chains
Chains are one of the most popular forms of accommodating resistance in strength training. Coaches often use them with the
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Sprinting Faster Changes Strategy
We know speed = stride length × stride frequency. But athletes do not simply keep increasing both forever. At some point ground