Off-Season Basketball Planning for High School Students
The final buzzer of your basketball season has gone off. Whether your team's run fell short of playoffs, ended midway through the postseason, or ultimately resulted in the cutting down [...]
Skills Training- Is it Helping or Slowing Down Performance?
Today, there is an excessive focus on young athletes needing to develop skills. Yet, while they are undoubtedly essential to learn, skill training appears to overshadow a child's functional and [...]
Learn How to Boost and Maximize Strength and Speed By Training the Three Phases of Motion
Focusing solely on training the concentric portion of your movement is not the most effective way to build strength, speed, and explosiveness. However, you must first develop and activate the [...]
Medicine-Ball Moves to Boost Athletic Performance for Basketball
The medicine ball can be a valuable tool for basketball players. Particularly during the in-season period where reps on the court are much higher, athletes still need to find a [...]
8-Week Block Training Routine that Accumulates Strength to Turn Into Speed and Power
Strength training is an essential part of any training routine to maximize speed, agility, explosiveness, and power. However, to get the most out of your strength training, it is essential [...]
Sprint Training for Children
The idiom, ‘Sprinters are born, marathoners are made,’ assumes that the major factor in sprinting is genetics. That is accurate if your goal is to become a world-class sprinter. However, [...]
From Skill Training to Practices and Games – Today’s Youth Are Still Lacking Strength and Body Awareness
Today's youth athletes are at a great time in this world. They have everything they need to succeed. However, youth athletes are still lacking strength and are deficient in certain [...]
Isometrics Training for Athletes. Your Secret Weapon to Strength.
If you want to get results from your training, you should understand how reps work and not just do them. Just performing reps will create strength. However, maximizing your strength [...]
Basketball Hydration – Pre, During, and Post-Competition
Hydration is not just about drinking water and Gatorade. Yes, those are the easiest ways to replace water and electrolyte loss in your body. But if your body is a [...]
Medicine Ball Training for Athletes
If you look around your gym, you might see medicine balls piled in a corner. Over the last two decades, they have made a resurgence as coaches have found them [...]