In the late 1990s, I was in college and interning with the then Tampa Bay Devil Rays. During one game against the Texas rangers, Tony Saunders was pitching and I was in the dugout looking down at my bag of sunflower seeds and heard a snap, similar to a bat making contact. It was Tony's arm breaking and he was rolling around in pain. The echo of the snap still haunts me as the dome was empty that [...]

"Hence Rose's appearance in the walking boot. They are trying somehow to get the pressure off of that foot. The problem is that this NBA schedule does not allow that to happen." Measuring risk and looking at the big picture, it's always better to appraise risk than to be paying for it later. Pressure mapping with equipment such as the Fscan and Pedar system is an effective way to see what is w [...]

With so many questions requested after the first three posts, including research and validity of different measurements techniques, I wanted to go over some of the research studies and show why many teams struggle to implement technology and evidence based medicine into sport. Going to google scholar and looking up the different methodologies isn't hard, implementing it is another story.The prima [...]

In this installment I wanted people to see the science behind Tensiomyography, so we can understand how this helps sports medicine and how science can help drive innovation with coaching in the sprints. The questions received from users were heavy on that metrics can one get from TMG and how can this help rehabilitation and training. The sensor can pick up the small individual dynamics of the supe [...]

In 1973-74 while attending graduate school at Stanford University I also had the opportunity to coach the jumpers and decathletes. This gave the opportunity to apply what I had learned with more mature male athletes. It was also the opportunity to work with Payton Jordan, the track coach at Stanford who was a pioneer in weight training. He had worked with a man named John Jesse who authored many b [...]

Short of sorcery, there's just no way to know. Yet that hasn't stopped Conte from attempting to build a crystal ball anyway. "In a post-Moneyball world," he says, "injury risk assessment is the final frontier."-ESPNThe five main metrics that should be included in the MLB are not going to happen, because objective data is not always on the side of those that are collecting it. Instead of the [...]

Recently we had a large discussion about distance running and strength training. As Carl mentioned recently it’s important to discuss some of the things we actually have done. A couple winters ago I did a presentation for a "Dutch" clinic. No, not the country but instead a great clinic where your only payment is that each coach must present on a topic. You know “Going Dutch!” That winter D [...]

Lot's of talk about therapy, fascial connections, and now the brain in coaching circles. What is the prime reason training wise people are getting faster in the 100m? If it was the 1990s everyone will say technique. 2000s it was force into the ground. Now? I am not sure. What I do know is that watching and observing what people do in training still has merit. Yes athletes are tempted to go to the [...]

Speed can be taught. I know many might believe otherwise but you are wrong. Fast people can become faster. I heard someone a long time ago say the garbage man could coach Carl Lewis. Comments like that make my blood boil. Good coaches can make people faster.How is this done? The answer is easy to say but difficult to master: improved suppleness (flexibility), movement efficiency, specific enduran [...]

Earlier this week, I had the incredible opportunity to present alongside two legendary coaches of the sport (Tom Tellez and Loren Seagrave) as well as several other world class presenters at The Speed Summit in Morristown, NJ. The summit was extremely high level and the presentations were outstanding. I was unable to see all the presentations as I had to make the coast-to-coast trek back to Vancou [...]