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If You’re Not Using This Exercise, You Should # 3: Strict Renegade Row
The goal of this series is to help coaches at the high school level and beyond expand their coaching “tool box” with practical movements, drills, and exercises – ones that aren’t just for show, but ones that can positively impact a training program. Each week I will post an exercise along with a video demonstration, as Read more
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If You’re Not Using This Exercise, You Should # 2: Half-Kneeling Landmine Press + Progressions
The goal of this series is to help coaches at the high school level and beyond expand their coaching “tool box” with practical movements, drills, and exercises – ones that aren’t just for show, but ones that can positively impact a training program. Each week I will post an exercise along with a video demonstration, as Read more
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3 Reasons Why Your Athlete Shouldn’t Specialize Early – Part II (Guest Post by Lauren Green, Brooklyn Nets)
Note from the editor: Since sharing the first part of this incredibly well-thought out and written piece with us, Coach Lauren Green (formerly of the Los Angeles Dodgers organization) has taken a new position, now working as an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach with the Brooklyn Nets organization. Even though Lauren has spent considerable time working Read more
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If You’re Not Using This Exercise, You Should # 1: Full Deadbug with Complete Exhalation
In an effort to provide more content on my personal blog, especially that in the multimedia format, I have decided to create a new series of blog posts with weekly installments entitled, “If You’re Not Using This Exercise, You Should” The goal of this series is to help coaches at the high school level and Read more
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Creating a “Performance Culture” in the Weight Room
A training session is only as good as the effort and belief committed by those implementing and participating in that training. For those who do not give the program full attention and effort, even the greatest training program ever written just becomes a collection of numbers and words. For this reason, among many others, strength coaching is so much Read more
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4 Considerations for Creating a Flexible and Efficient In-Season Training Program
Regardless of coaching situations – perhaps your high school team has a strength coach, perhaps the sport coaches must run it themselves – off-season training always seems to be a given. In the very least, most major sports observe some form of summer training, if not a program that encompasses the entire off-season. All too Read more
Ryan J. Faer 