If you’re keen on strength sports and looking to push your physical capabilities, you’ve probably come across the terms weightlifting and powerlifting. While both sports involve lifting weights and building strength, they are quite different in their focus, techniques, and competitions. Whether you’re deciding which path to take…

First off, congratulations on becoming a graduate assistant, let’s get started. If you are like me and got hired on at a school with a student athlete population of over 500 students and 22 varsity sports, good luck. This is a unique and challenging endeavor. With that many…

  “What gets measured, gets improved upon,” right? One can only hope that what we measure in the weight room has context that backs up our programming decisions. Most coaches analyze athlete readiness as soon as their team walk through the door, we can see it on their face,…

This article’s objective is to breakdown some notions and ideas regarding how to build and maintain strength for the hammer throw. The average strength coach knows that lifting weights as part of exercise or conditioning for the hammer thrower is vital to the competitions success. I will also gladly…

In this article I’m going to discuss the five books that, in my opinion, every young strength and conditioning intern should read. These books helped me become a better professional, and develop my WHY. I tried to choose books that were not only extremely helpful to my growth as…

At the collegiate level, my fellow strength and conditioning coaches and I have a bird’s eye view of our athletes work ethics and team dynamics. We see the athletes weekly if not daily, we are having one-on-one coaches meetings, we are on the sidelines, and at the meets, but…

 I’m going to jump out of my strength coach lane and attempt to play physical therapist for a minute, I am neither qualified (DPT) nor endorsed to discuss this topic, I am just playing word vomit with my thoughts.      Asking yourself “Does it hurt” will help you…

A majority of coaches that now have a paid position in the athletic performance realm have been employed as an intern at least once, if not two or three times. From experience, I have been an intern twice. As your internship progresses, you’ve probably come around to the…