Thinking of hosting a combine to raise money or awareness of your facility? Testing athletes is growing and it doesn’t take much to get started. With good planning and follow-through, high school teams can use combine testing, evaluating a player’s athletic abilities, easily with some old fashioned word of mouth and having the right people involved.
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Long and Triple Jump Training – An Interview with Boo Schexnayder
Jumps coach Boo Schexnayder shares his experience working with elite jumps and gives practical advice in training and coaching.
Read More5 Ways to Use Immediate Feedback in Training
The common approach to working with athletes is giving feedback, both qualitative and and quantitative during training and sometimes after practice. While objective information is important, the science sometimes has to be balanced with the art in giving the right amount and type of information back to the athlete. When an athlete is self trained or on on their own, feedback is necessary to get an idea of progress. In this article we will look at different approaches in using timing with other objective indicators to see what ways may work for individual athletes and specific circumstances.
Read MoreKen Jakalski ITCCCA 2014 Presentation Notes
Ken Jakalski is head track and field coach at Lisle High School As a sprint coach, my concerns should be answering two fundamental questions. First, I’d like to know what really determines how much force a sprinter can apply to the ground considering that time to apply these forces decreases with increases in speed. I […]
Read MoreSkeleton Speed Training
Skeleton athlete Chris Hoina discusses his setup of electronic timing equipment to improve his speed training in preparation for the winter Olympics.
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