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Functionally Integrated Training for Soccer
Last week I put up a post that documents our ACL Return to Sport program and over the last few days I have received emails asking to see some of these activities in action. I videoed a few of the drills from our session last night with 2 girls who are in the final stages [...]
Last week at the NSCAA National Conference, I picked up a few balls from Rasenreich.com to start a study on reactive dribbling and quick feet that we plan to start in the Spring of 2012. Last night I began our process, by letting some of our athletes play with the balls in a “free play” [...]
Last week we put up a 5 part series on how we test and assess our athletes vertical jump. You can get a closer look at this series by clicking on the links below…
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Testing Max Verticals with the SmartJump System from Fusion Sport. In this post you can see how [...]
Many of our players use heart rate (HR) monitors to evaluate their response to daily training programs. Here is a common question many parents ask when they find out we are using HR monitors in our training sessions.
“What is the concept of monitoring (to improve) your fitness, and why/how is the monitor used to achieve [...]
As we seek to learn more about how young players adapt to our speed, agility and conditioning programs, we have begun to incorporate the Polar Team 2 Training System and a new tracking system for our Woodway Curve Treadmills. These two systems allow us to collect meaningful data without making our athletes feel like subjects [...]
When we moved into our new facility in the fall of 2009 we gained use of outdoor, full sized turf fields, but lost the ability to test 20 and 40 yd dashes indoors. Due to the climate here (too hot, too cold, too windy, too wet, etc.) we needed to find a way to consistently [...]
Today, in the blog series of the top 10 programs on the Cybex Arc Trainer, we will be looking at our #8 program: Circuit Training. As we discussed in the #9 program (Heart Rate Recovery), high intensity interval training bouts of 30-60 seconds on, followed by 30-60 seconds off seems to be ideal for fat [...]
In our series of the top ten types of training on the Cybex Arc Trainer we have our number 9 program being Improved Heart Rate Recovery. This refers to the ability of the heart to quickly recover during interval training, to a level were it can repeat the next interval at a fairly high intensity.
High [...]
And although most of our athletes think I take vacations about once a month, I actually am still working, just not with them. Last week I was asked to speak at an event in Chicago for the National Strength and Conditioning Associations Youth Fitness Symposium. I spoke about our athletes (bragged really), and then demonstrated [...]
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