Strength and Conditioning
The Principle of Specificity: Getting the Balance Right to Maximize Performance
[4-min read] If you’re training for a particular goal or outcome, the best way to get better at it i…
The Principle of Specificity: Getting the Balance Right to Maximize Performance
[4-min read] If you’re training for a particular goal or outcome, the best way to get better at it i…
What we say Matters / How Coaching Language can Improve Athlete Performance
[9 min read] Regardless of whether it’s the Sports Science or the Sports Coaching department you are…
Maximize client and athlete progress with the Overload Principle
[6-min read] For training to be effective, it needs to provide the individual with enough of a train…
Using the Recovery Principle to help your athletes recover better and perform at their peak
[7-min read] If your athletes are feeling tired and not seeing performance improvements after traini…
Train how you want to play: An insight to using drill classification for load management in Gaelic Football
[7-min read] Introduction The intermittent, chaotic demands of Gaelic Football will require players …
Why Training Program Individualization is so Important
[4-minute read] Each individual is physiologically unique and has a different set of strengths and w…
Injuries leave clues that can help coaches better prepare their athletes / Part 1
[7-minute read] Sport will forever challenge its participants to push themselves psychologically, te…
How to use ACWR to optimize physical readiness, improve performance, and reduce injury risk.
[5-minute read] Soligard et al. (2016) showed that poor training load prescription and management is…
How to use Training Strain to achieve peak performance and reduce injury risk
[4-minute read] Coaches are constantly trying to strike a balance between pushing their clients and …
Fitness vs Conditioning: How to Prepare Athletes for Elite Performance
In the past two decades, across the world of sport, we have seen world records broken. 100m, 200m, 4…
