This video is why we need more strength coaches sharing what to do and less PTs giving us insight on power. This is not real power. Power is measured and what is being shared (single arm exercises with light loads) can't do anything for increasing power with athletes unless they are truly untrained. I can't imagine a running back at a D1 program going through the hole explosively from the traini [...]

Stiffness and mobility are often looked as isolated modalities but they are a complex interaction when trained. It would be convenient that one can just do some mobility drills or bridges to become a great athlete but that is far from the truth. Reducing muscle slack at key times and allowing controlled motion requires very good coaching abilities, hence why interns at various performance centers [...]

I was saddened to learn of the passing of Harmon Brown. Harmon was a real pioneer in both sports medicine and sports science. He was very instrumental in my career. I found it almost ironic that I learned of his passing when I checked my email during a break at a conference at the US Olympic Training center in Colorado spring, a site where Harmon lead so many organizational meeting to get sports m [...]

We've recently been spoiled by the amazing feats of Asafa Powell's 9.72 personal best in Lausanne and Usain Bolt's string of sub 9.85s. So much so that it's easy to forget that someone other than these two actually produced the fastest 100m ever. EVAR. Tyson Gay. Remember him? He's that guy who didn't make the final at the Olympics due to lack of race fitness caused by an injury at the U.S. [...]

Well, by now everyone in the world knows that Usaine Bolt is not a human being. At least not by the standards we have been using for the last couple millennium. His 100m performance of 9.69 was just mind-boggling. 9.69 beat Bolt's previous world record by 0.03 seconds and is faster than the WR of just last year by 0.05 seconds. That's like a swimmer breaking a world record by 4 seconds...never m [...]

I've been watching the Olympics via NBC and on the MSN broadcasts. In fact, I'm watching the finale of the live broadcast of the men's all-around gymnastics competition. It's been great to watch these competitions and I've picked up a lot of interesting things. Here's some random thoughts about the first 6 days:Anyone notice the tape on many of the volleyball player's shoulders? That's cal [...]

Training information is easy to find, go anywhere on the internet and you will all kinds of information, some valuable, some trivial and some downright useless and misleading. How can you separate the wheat from the chaff? Maybe it just reflects my age, education and the era when I grew up. A good sound base of knowledge is so much more important than information. I think to be able to sort throug [...]

I read an interesting article in the Los Angeles Times today about how scientists have found a drug that produces similar physiological affects to exercise. Mind you, this isn't necessarily equivalent to steroids or other PEDs which really take exercise to bring out their full benefit....this pill IS exercise (at least as far as the physiological response). Kinda freaky. In a related article, Ron [...]

A friend of mine just sent me a nice link to a video page with some great track-related sport science videos from the Australian Institute for Sport. If you've been following sport science developments over the past 10 years you should know that the Austrailian's state funded sport science program is unrivaled in the world of athletics today. I think this is the primary reason they were able to [...]

I just recently had a birthday. Turned 31 in fact. For some reason that sounds dramatically older than 30. I've now been coaching at some level for 14 years. I'm not sure if you can call my first couple years of coaching really coaching but whatever it is, it helped bring me to where I am today. Thankfully, I've had some great opportunities to work with and mentor under people who I would consi [...]