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Three Pass Concepts for Your Young QB
June 2, 2023
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 […]
Training Your Non-Dominant Foot
June 2, 2023
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 […]
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Best Exercises for a Harder Hockey Shot
June 2, 2023
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 […]
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Four Tips to Become a Better Rebounder
June 2, 2023
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 […]
Why We Should Rotate Our Bodies in Freestyle and Backstroke
June 2, 2023
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 […]
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How to Pace Your Race
June 2, 2023
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. […]
How to Help Your Infield Rack Up Outs in Crunch Time
June 2, 2023
The margin between winning and losing can often be measured by flexibility in the clutch. When the game is on the line, it’s essential to lock in with a calm, mental approach. Michael Thompson believes this is the key to infield defense in the latter innings of a contest. As the head coach at West […]
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Fundamentals of Developing a Free Throw Routine
June 2, 2023
So for all of the young basketball players out their, make sure you develop a routine that you are comfortable with and also do not overlook free throws, they are just as important as anything in the game of basketball. Free throws are the simplest part of the game of basketball, you get fouled, and […]
Five Ways to Get Your Swimming Goals Back on Track
June 2, 2023
What are the three to four things that will impact your swimming the most? Is it your mental game? Your nutrition habits? Breathing patterns? Your turns? No matter our best intentions and motivations, inevitably we will face droughts in our swimming. Whether it is a long bout of training becoming inexorably draining, out-of-the-pool stuff becoming […]
Training Catchers with the Roman Empire Drill
June 2, 2023
By being mentally ready on the field they’ll put themselves in a position to use all that training and find greater success. Anyone who has seen a gladiator movie, or a movie with gladiators in it, is familiar with this scenario: Two warriors do battle until one bests the other. The victor stands over the […]
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