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Why High Schools Need Strength & Conditioning Professionals – Part II
Table of Contents: Part I — Introduction; Safety Considerations in the Weight Room Part II — Improving the Athletic Department as a Whole Part III — Personal Development; Next Steps THE HIGHLIGHTS:– The entire athletic department stands a chance to benefit from hiring a strength and conditioning professional.- Aside from enhancing the play on the field, all sport coaches will be… Read more
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Why High Schools Need More Strength & Conditioning Professionals — Part I
Table of Contents: Part I — Introduction; Safety Considerations in the Weight Room Part II — Improving the Athletic Department as a Whole Part III — Personal Development; Next Steps THE HIGHLIGHTS: – There simply are not enough strength and conditioning professionals at the high school level. -A movement of integrating strength coaches into high schools is going to take a… Read more
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Weight Room Movements and Their Transfer to Sport – Simplifying Exercise Selection
When putting together a strength training program – especially as a sport coach with no formal education in human performance – the amount of variables that exist can seem overwhelming. Take, for example, just a couple programming components that must be considered when considering a training program: Frequency – number of training sessions per cycle/week/phase… Read more
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Preventing The Demise of High School Baseball
Today, we may be witnessing the beginning stages of the slow and insidious decline of high school baseball into irrelevance, and the much more obvious transcendence of travel baseball into the forefront, taking a greater foothold in the high school ballplayer’s competitive calendar. In some regions, travel baseball has long since swallowed summer legion baseball. And, in other… Read more
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Early Sport Specialization in Baseball
Originally written and shared in Fall of 2015 *Disclaimer: ALL thoughts, opinions, claims belong to myself, and in no way are intended to reflect the thoughts and beliefs of my current employer. It is undeniable that youth athletes are specializing at younger ages than ever before. For those that don’t know, Early Sport Specialization (ESS)… Read more
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Balancing Physical Development & Skill Development in High School Baseball – A Yearly Approach
I often find that it’s easiest and most simple to view athletic development through two different pathways or processes: Physical Development – stressing the body in order to create adaptations in terms of strength, power, range of motion, stability, etc. Athletic Skill Development – developing the coordination and movement patterns, through repetition, that will lead to successful sport-specific… Read more
Ryan J. Faer 