athletic director
February 3, 2010
Sliding into a Strong Core
Core training is one of the current strength and conditioning trends that has launched a multitude of diverse applications and filled the pages of equipment catalogues with a wide array of assistive paraphernalia.Practitioners no longer treat the "ab...
February 3, 2010
Organizing and Administering Football’s Off-Season Program
Stay competitiveThe advent of the New Year means it’s time for football coaches to formulate and implement their off-season programs.Many high school coaches are already well into their winter workouts and taking advantage of this critical time...
February 3, 2010
Odds ’N Ends: Covering Strength Training’s Details
Strength coaches tend to have their personal short-list of “core lifts” that they have determined to be vital in overall development.Conversely, they have a stash of “auxiliary lifts” that they occasionally break out for varie...
February 3, 2010
Strength training: No substitute for hard work
With all of the trendy strength training approaches available these days, it becomes easy to lose sight of the single-most important premise of all - hard work. Regardless of your basic beliefs and training philosophy, we all know that there are o...
February 3, 2010
Exercises, Equipment Modes, and Rep Duration
The training landscape is in a state of continual flux, and the ongoing changes, updates, and emergence of proposed cutting-edge devices and techniques makes for interesting and thought-provoking debates among practitioners.The inquiries I receive th...
February 3, 2010
Chemical Conundrum: Beyond The Mitchell Report
The timeline leading to the release of Senator George Mitchell’s document on the use of performance-enhancing drugs (PED’s) in MLB on December 13, 2007 had a cryptic and inauspicious beginning way back on June 7, 1991.On that day, then-co...
February 3, 2010
Career path for the strength and conditioning professional
The strength and conditioning profession has certainly burgeoned over the past 30 years, in both supply and demand. Running parallel with this progress has been the heightened interest by many young people in career opportunities in the field. In ...
February 3, 2010
Fueling the body for competition
Athletes are taught that being a part of a winning team requires discipline and attention to detail in the classroom, on and off the field, and in the food choices they put on their plate. In today’s frenetic fa(s)t-food world, the latter ca...
Many school emergency plans in operation today are put in place with the understanding that the school day is in session and that all school-certificated and classified staff are on site.
Installing a preseason emergency response plan
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All public and private schools have an emergency response plan that al...