By Coach Tod Moore I knew it was going to be a tough session for the athletes. Typically when we do a 60 minute continuous effort it’s aerobic in nature. Jake had programmed 4×15 minute work capacity circuits back to back. None of them were easy, so
By Coach Brittan Morris We get a lot of athletes, in the gym and online, asking us what kind of training they should be doing while they’re travelling. Now, a number of you travel for work on a regular basis, and others are just taking a vacation from time
When Jordan asked me to write a piece on why training was still fun for me, I’m not going to lie I really struggled. These days when I think about training, I honestly don’t think about it as being fun. Approaching the age of 42, training these days mostly reminds
The idea of combining sport specific skills with physical training is nothing new. A short trip down the instagram rabbit hole will show you all manner of crazy shit. Does this idea have merit? Should we combine skill based training with physical training? We
There are 3 primary lifts used to assess maximal strength – The Back Squat, Bench Press, and Deadlift. These are the same 3 lifts used in the sport of powerlifting, and their combined total is is a useful measure of how strong an athlete is. Keep in mind that
Tempo training is the big brother of Speed Endurance. Speed Endurance consists of shorter, faster intervals in the 3-7 minute range while Tempo Training consists of longer sustained efforts in the 12-30 minute range. You may notice this is very similar to our Work Capacity efforts. Remember the 25
Athleticism is high speed multidirectional movement. Many people use the term agility for this type of training and it is very popular in field sports such as football, soccer, lacrosse, and basketball. We don’t assess athleticism as the required tools for accurate assessments are not easily available. That being
Strength Endurance is the ability to repeatedly exert force without fatigue. This attribute is measured by an assessment that tests max reps for a certain duration. An example would be the Army’s 2 minute push-up test, or one of our favorites: max reps Jump Lunge in 90 seconds with a
Yes, another taste of high intensity today. “Why twice?” you may ask. Last week you saw a single 25 minute effort. Today you’ll see 3 shorter efforts, each approximately 5 minutes in duration. This means that the intensity of these efforts will be much higher than the 25
The ability to not only move something, but to move it FAST, is what today’s session is all about. Power and Speed training is the central focus on the majority of field sports such as baseball, football, and many of the track and field events you see. Throwing,
