The defense has such a multitude of options when it comes to stopping the offense. Find out what works with your team through scouting and trial and error. Defense wins championships. It’s true for all team sports, especially football. Do you have a championship-caliber defense? Is your team shutting down offenses week in and week out? […]

Providing your quarterback with multiple options on a different pass play will significantly raise the potential for more explosive plays within your offense. Always keep ’em guessing! One of the biggest pet peeves that I have with offensive coordinators of youth football teams (10u and younger) is the dreaded “One Man Route.” It is 3rd […]

Because training was only the stimulus, your nutrition and sleep are going to determine whether or not you actually adapt to that stimulus to build muscle tissue. When it comes to building muscle mass for hockey athletes, you need to have an adequate intake of protein in your diet. Technically, water makes up roughly 75 […]

Athletes who can switch between both feet have a powerful advantage over their competitors. Every player, whether naturally or through soccer training, has developed a dominant foot. This foot is their go-to side for passing, shooting or kicking. While typically right-handed players lean toward their right foot and left-handed players to their left foot, by no means […]

It’s definitely not easy, but it’s fun each year to try to build a team that has that type of mental capacity. If it is achieved, it can go a long way to success at the end of a season. Sue Phillips, head coach, Archbishop Mitty High School (Calif.): We believe that mental toughness is […]

Hockey movements in the gym are skills that you develop over time in the same way that you develop new skills on the ice. When it comes to hockey performance, you need to have the ability to express maximal force in the shortest timeframe possible. The faster you can express force into the hockey specific […]

Be careful not to be too quick when playing defense, as there is a fine balance between reacting too soon and too late. Obviously, the team that scores the most points wins, but what a lot of people fail to realize is that rebounds are nearly as important as points. How could rebounds be nearly as important as […]

The bigger we are (more mass) and the faster we can rotate, the more energy we create to couple with the pull, and the faster we swim. All of the elite swimmers of the world rotate their bodies along the long axis, the axis that their body is moving down the pool, while swimming freestyle […]

One cannot sustain the pace well nor finish fast without providing enough oxygen to the body. Knowing how to pace a race appropriately is one of the most difficult aspects of competitive swimming. It goes against our very nature, particularly when we are excited and fresh at the start of each race, to hold back. […]

That’s the mark of a true champion – holding your head high, even in moments of disappointment. You win the gold; you lose the silver. It’s an argument I’ve heard a lot in the past few days; one that would seem to excuse the actions of Swedish captain Lias Andersson as he lobbed his IIHF […]