When they asked me to write a piece on using sprint timers to track progress and motivate athletes, they probably didn’t see this coming; and neither did you. We test our athletes over a three-meter sprint. No, that was not a typo. THREE-METER SPRINT. “What the...?” Yeah, let me explain by taking you back a …
A Six-Step Feedback Workflow for Coaches Coaches do not need more clips. They need a reliable way to decide what matters, what the footage actually supports, and what to change next. Case note: The tennis example in this article transparently combines recurring review patterns. It demonstrates a coaching decision process; the article does not present …
By: Kosta Telegadas M.S.Ed, CSCS, XPS, XFS Introduction: Why Hamstring Injuries Refuse to Disappear Despite advances in sports science and monitoring technology, hamstring injuries remain one of the most common soft-tissue injuries in sport. Hamstring strains are among the most disruptive injuries across intermittent sports. Soccer, rugby, American football, track and field, basketball, and tennis …
La escala RPE (escala de esfuerzo percibido) es una herramienta habitual que se utiliza para evaluar la intensidad del entrenamiento tanto en individuos como en equipos. Los valores de RPE proporcionan un punto de referencia para la carga interna de un individuo, que puede compararse con la de otros durante una sesión similar. Los científicos …
The Heatmap Problem After wrapping up an MD-3 training session at an MLS NEXT Academy club, I pulled up the GPS data and felt good about what I saw. Total distance (TD), sprint distance (SD), and high-speed running (HSR) had all hit our group benchmarks. On paper, the session was a success. Then I looked …
I am going to be upfront: being a student-athlete at a university is difficult. It demands your time, energy, and often your finances. Keep in mind, I coach in Canada, where NIL deals are not a thing. Every year, I see the incoming group of freshmen athletes, and too many of them are not ready …
As the NFL Draft approaches, we start hearing about prospects who will post elite athletic testing numbers at the NFL Combine and their pro days. Some prospects run 40-yard dashes in the 4.2s, jump over 40 inches in the vertical, and finish the 20-yard shuttle under four seconds. Those tests show rare athletic ability. The …
Researchers invented Tensiomyography (TMG) technology in the 1980s, originally for assessing degenerative muscle diseases. However, Mr. Srdjan Djordjevic of Ljubljana, Slovenia, developed its sports application in the 1990s. TMG is a non-invasive, selective muscle function diagnostic tool used by athletes seeking to optimize and maximize their performance, as well as for precise diagnostics of injured …
If you watch any pre-match team talk from a male-oriented sport, chances are you will see analogies that draw from the military: the concept of a battle, a war, the need for controlled aggression, to fight for what you want. In Any Given Sunday, Al Pacino's character Tony D'Amato, head coach of the Miami Sharks …
Monitoring, Wearables, and Practical Decision Frameworks The growing availability of monitoring tools has fundamentally changed how recovery and physiological readiness are discussed in applied settings. Heart rate variability platforms, sleep trackers, Global Positioning Systems, wellness questionnaires, and composite "readiness" scores are now commonplace across nearly all levels of sport. While these tools offer valuable information, …
