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Improve Your Dribbling in the Paint With These Ball Handling Drills In the past, basketball dribbling drills were practiced separately from sports performance training. However, we have found ways to increase ball handling skill through those drills while also increasing explosive movements needed to accelerate past a defender. This skill is especially valuable when you’re in the paint or one-on-one against a defender. These drills push the basketball athlete beyond the comfort… Read More

GREAT LEADERS ARE ACCESSIBLE! AND AS A COACH ON ANY LEVEL, YOU SHOULD MAKE IT A PRIORITY TO BE ACCESSIBLE TO COACHES AND ATHLETES; NOT THE ONES YOU KNOW. 95 PERCENT OF COACHES THAT CALL THEMSELVES LEADERS ARE NOT ACCESSIBLE! THAT’S THE ISSUE WITH TODAY’S COACH’S (LEADERS) ACROSS THE BOARD.

This exercise is a great way to make a traditional Plank way more challenging. You have to hold the plank position with your feet elevated in the rings, and move the stack of plates from one side to the other. There’s a great anti-extension and anti-rotation training component here, which are two critical skills needed by athletes to keep a strong and stable core. Do this one only if you can move… Read More

Agility drills aren’t widely used in strongman competitions, but they’re a valuable companion to strongman training. They are an important transformational tool, improving explosiveness, footwork, change of direction and muscle control (just to name a few). Combining a strongman apparatus (in this case, a wheelbarrow) with agility drills for speed, change of direction and quickness can increase the metabolic demands placed on an athlete’s body, teaching muscle control and giving the athlete… Read More

As coaches, our firt girl is to keep our athletes healthy. Yes, improving their performance is important-and it’s what we get paid to do.

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