This past weekend one of the elite jumpers I work with had a catastrophic injury. During a competition at UNC, Jade Ellis tore his left Achilles tendon as he ran down the run way for his sixth attempt in the long jump. Training had been going well and he was jumping great (especially considering the relatively slow surface at UNC) and everything was going well until that final jump. Jade is a grea [...]

We are making the Fundamental Sports Conditioning 4.0 Media Enhanced download for anyone purchasing any HPC product complimentary. What you are getting is a review of the research and coaching theory of the best coaches and programs in the world of performance enhancement. With the Joint Restoration Video being a hit, we are sure that this product will be a great value for anyone looking to get t [...]

Happy Labor Day to all American members (and all our international friends that want to celebrate with us). To help out all you hard workers out there I'm offering 10% off all DVD and book sales at the HPC company store for today only. This can be used on top of the already ongoing End of Summer Clearance...meaning you can purchase items for as much as 40% off the retail cost. Use coupon code 'l [...]

We're deep in to the heart of the international track and field schedule now and have only 3 weeks before the start of the 12th IAAF World Championships in Berlin. The season has had plenty of highlights so far but none greater than the solo fireworks of Tyson Gay and Usain Bolt. Reigning double World Champion, Tyson Gay, has the world leading performances of 9.77 and 19.58 to his credit. Olympic [...]

It's been a while since my last entry in this series on technology in sport but I figured I'd resume things with a blog on the use of technology to assess training load and physiological readiness. In theory this could be very important to a coach because it can be used as a tool to assess whether an athlete is overtrained and help to guide both training and competition strategies. There are a c [...]

OK. Here's my last video (at least until I return home from a family visit in NY). This one's a 5 minute clip from the DVD titled, Penultimate and Takeoff Mechanics in the Long Jump. The video was shot at the HPC ELITETRACK Gold Medal Clinic held at the 2008 Olympic Trials. In this video, legendary coach, Tom Tellez, teaches the mechanics that made Carl Lewis and many others to elite status in t [...]

As promised, here's today's video clip. This one is actually one of my favorite lectures from HPC's recent clinic. In this talk, throws coach Larry Judge discusses ways to maximize competition performances. This lecture is pretty high level and has a wealth of useful information that can be applied across event groups. [...]

As promised here's another lecture clinic video from a coaching great. This one's by none other than Tom Tellez, the former coach of Carl Lewis, Leroy Burrell, and Mike Marsh in addition to many others. In this talk Tom gives some tips for starting block setup and the set position. [...]

Today was my last day at West Point. I turned in my resignation 2 weeks ago. I'd delayed saying something publicly because I wanted to speak or contact all my athletes (which can be quite difficult when you coach at a school that sends many of its kids around the world for internships and military training for much of summer). To answer the most obvious question- 'where are you going?', I'm no [...]

I get a lot of email. A lot. I host my webmail accounts (ET and HPC) on Google hosted mail and thanks to Google's spam blocker only about 1% of the spam seems to actually make it to my inbox. Today however, I received a goodie. A hall of famer if you will. This one was actually submitted to my company website (which explains how it made it past the spam guard). Under normal circumstances I'd jus [...]