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Making the Most of Your Off-Season
February 12, 2019
Ultimately, it’s up to us to take our profession and the pressing strength and conditioning questions of our day, put them on the prowler, and start pushing it forward to the next generation of coaches. From 2002 until 2010 my off-season revolved around an indoor track, and a loud, windowless sweat cave that we called […]
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Creating a Challenging Mite Program
February 12, 2019
“The kids who are more advanced are getting more challenged, and the lower end kids are still getting challenged but are getting more confidence as well.” Considering players in Mite/8U programs are often hopping on the ice for the first time, learning basic skills, interacting with their high school heroes and initially falling in love […]
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Coaching Philosophy – How to Handle Aggressive Parents?
February 8, 2019
One of the questions many new youth baseball coaches have is, how do I handle aggressive parents? This is a great question, and it’s one that deserves a lot of thoughts. Congratulations on making the decision to become a youth baseball coach! You’ve entered a really challenging and rewarding field, and the next few years […]
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Winning in Transition: Angling, Gaps and Creating Turnovers in Today’s Game
February 3, 2019
The main objective of angling is to take away an opponent’s good ice and force them to bad ice. Taking the proper angle includes having your own goal in mind. Blink and you might miss a crucial part of the action. Hockey today is played faster than ever and critical to the pace is how […]
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Three Great Hockey Drills for Private Sessions
February 3, 2019
They skate in a figure eight and transition around the cones so they are always facing the stationary player. The entire time the two players are making as many passes as possible. It can be tricky to come up with unique, useful, and fun hockey drills to use in a summer session where you only […]
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Upper Body Hockey Workout
February 3, 2019
For hockey athletes specifically, the barbell row is an exercise that is particularly good for maintaining your posture during battles, improving your shot power, and majorly reducing your injury risk out on the ice. The world of hockey training has no shortage of lower body workouts, SAQ drills, speed training, and conditioning sessions – but […]
Volleyball Tip of the Week: Digging the Ball Toward the Net
Volleyball Tip of the Week: Digging the Ball Toward the Net
January 31, 2019
Carolina Union (Charlotte, NC) shares a drill and training aids they use to train defenders to play the ball toward the net. The goals are to read the attacker, remain balanced to react, and dig the ball forward.
Football Drills to Increase Speed and Agility
January 31, 2019
During football, you don’t know when and how you’re going to sprint, stop and change directions. To excel at football, you’ve got to have exceptional speed and agility. On offense, you’ll be able to run faster down the field and dodge opponents. Defensively, you’ll be better able to stay on a wide receiver and track […]
Improving Athleticism and Performance in Youth Baseball Players
January 31, 2019
Power is how fast you can apply strength. In order to throw harder, throw farther, swing faster and hit with more power, you have to be both strong and fast, and you must be able to apply force (strength) quickly. If you are a young baseball player (or the parents or coach of a young […]
What’s the Point of Rotating in Freestyle?
January 31, 2019
Another way to think of rotation is like a washing machine. At the end of a washing cycle, the washer spins the clothes super fast to help whick away water from the clothes. All swimmers have heard the words: “rotate more” during their Freestyle. As coaches, we can definitely see when a swimmer is swimming […]
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