More Gold from Benke. I forgot to post this earlier and you need to know your spanish but hopefully Ramon Sosa can do a little transcription for the audience. I love Sub13 as it's a great resource and I hope more global sharing occurs with training and coaching. I have met Benke a few times and love his approach to training and hurdling technique. You can scroll down to the bottom and download th [...]

Some great wisdom here and I suggest watching all of the videos. Dan is a great educator and I am excited to see what he is up to with some of the athletes he is working with. I wish it was that easy to pick up a motor learning book and speak about it on a blog, but cueing is far more art than science now. Like the FMS having a lot of pros and cons, I think we need more honest and candid discussi [...]

"...Like when he huddled with Beckett and told the righty that putting too much weight on the toes of his back foot causes him to lean toward third, witches forces him to throw back across his body and miss outside."-ESPN the Magazine on Sandy KoufaxIn 1987 technology in pressure profiling the foot was started to reduce injuries, based on the innovations in 1977 with Nicol. Fast forward to 2009, [...]

Performance and Sports Medicine information is the currency, and information now is faster and more demanding than ever. What is the best information? Who has it? How do we validate it? What is private and what should be public? Who do we learn from? What are primary and secondary resources? I recently read Shawn Windle's article on the 40 yard dash and was concerned about the response and what w [...]

"Each athlete has a movement signature, a fingerprint that defines him or her as an individual in regard to their movement patterns, to change that is very difficult and of questionable necessity. We also need to remember when we are screening movement that the body is asymmetrical, to seek symmetry is unrealistic. Proportionality right to left and front to back is a more realistic and practical [...]

I wanted to share some of the information I learned from sitting down with bright coaches on EliteTrack for several reasons. First, I am noticing a lot of discussion in the message boards about strength training and endurance, and wanted to share my observations of Galen Rupp. I love that we have a stud American distance athlete and I think he is a monster talent. One of the discussion was a criti [...]

[This is a guest post by John Grace. John is one of the coaches at my training center, Athletic Lab. John has his CSCS and USATF Level 1 certifications and coaches youth to professional athletes at Athletic Lab] Hurdles aren’t just for those competing in the 100/110m hurdles; they can serve as a tool for every athlete. Hurdles are a great tool to use when considering a dynamic warm up. Hurdle m [...]

After reading Mladen's blog, I decided that I should share my positive findings with Gymaware, since power is making a comeback in sports. His post on olympic lifting was excellent, and I hope he writes more.Power training and power testing are sometimes not the same, and here is a great way to integrate both monitoring and actual interventions into a good program. I am not against force plates a [...]

One of the interns at my sport performance training and research center, Athletic Lab started his internship the week I left NC to take over as the fitness coach for the Vancouver Whitecaps. While the mentorship continued in my absence, we weren't able to have the daily professional dialogue that goes on all the time at Athletic Lab between staff and interns. When I was back in NC last month, he [...]

I am not sure how much Eliteform is exactly, but it's not going to be cheap from what I heard. Open ZeusEye is going to be a free software option (plus 1,200 american dollars per station for hardware) for coaches to design and implement weight training. After the World Cup, a paperless weight room was created by a team of great coaches and IT staff, and now the system is effective enough to be r [...]