10 Commandments for Great Weight Room Culture
Want a successful weight room culture? It all starts with you! It is our job as the coach to create the environment needed to cultivate a successful culture.
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Long Term Athletic Development
Long term athletic development (LTAD) is an approach to training and supporting athletes of all ages with appropriate & effective training.
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How to Train HS Athletes: 3 Steps for Complete Athletic Development
Want to build the best athletes? Put aside the trendy new exercises, or fancy sport-specific workouts. Instead, develop well-rounded, complete competitors with consistent and holistic performance training.
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4 Keys to Great Off-Season Workouts
In-season success starts in the off-season. The off-season is an opportunity to attack what needs to be done to dominate the in-season.
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Why In-Season Training is the Key to a Winning Season
A healthy team, performing at its peak all season long is a winning team, which is why in-season training is a vital component of you team’s success.
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SMR for Mobility & Recovery
Widely used and often the focus of hot training takes, SMR (or Self Myofascial Release), is a mobility and recovery mechanism we believe in here at PLT4M.
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Teaching the Clean
The clean. One of the most technically difficult movements to learn and perform well, but also one of the most beneficial movements.
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3 Keys to Warming Up Before A Workout
The Warm Up. It’s the least exciting part of training. It lacks the competition and the intensity of the rest of the workout. The warm up, though, is one of the most important components of any training program.
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High Knee to RDL Stability Drill
A great combination of activation and single limb balance, this drill is much like a SL RDL in that it is unilateral flexion and extension of the hip. Here, though, we are adding the element of a high knee drive during extension and our focus is on slow, smooth movement and perfect balance without a counterweight.
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Culture of Commitment: An Off-Season to Build From
In-season success starts in the off-season. The off-season is an opportunity to attack what needs to be done to dominate the in-season.
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Squat Therapy
Looking for exercises to improve squat form and technique? Squat therapy is a dynamic way to improve squat form for all students and athletes.
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Teaching Jump Rope
Back as a first year PE teacher and high school strength coach, one thing that surprised me most was the inability of many students and athletes to jump rope. I had assumed that jumping rope was a universal skill kids picked up along the way during childhood. Turns out, that’s not necessarily the case. Again…
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