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What is LTAD? LTAD or Long Term Athletic Development is a pathway for athletes to develop the skills necessary to be the best athlete that they were born to become. You can find more about LTAD here. Learning to Train Phase This is where the problems start to show. The lack of development can be […] The post LTAD: Learning to Train appeared first on Team Sports Performance| Online Strength and Conditioning for Teams.

What is LTAD? LTAD is Long Term Athletic Development. Long Term Athletic Development is a systemized pathway to develop athletes from birth to the Olympics. This was first created by Dr. Istvan Balyi. Dr Balyi was a Hungarian Olympic coach when he was approached to create this model to develop the best athletes for his country. […] The post What is LTAD? appeared first on Team Sports Performance| Online Strength and Conditioning for Teams.

What is a concussion? The CDC states, “A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury—or TBI—caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head or by a hit to the body that causes the head and brain to move rapidly back and forth. This sudden movement can cause the brain to bounce around […] The post Concussions and the Weight Room appeared first on Team Sports Performance| Online Strength and Conditioning for Teams.

Fundraising Tips for Strength and Conditioning Programs This is a topic that most of us hate. Fundraising for Strength and Conditioning programs have become a necessity because many programs don’t have the money included in the budget for updating the weight room and replacing equipment that has been broken. At many of the schools that […] The post Fundraising Tips for Strength and Conditioning Programs appeared first on Team Sports Performance| Online Strength and Conditioning for Teams.

Tips for Combine Training There are many attitudes about combine training. There is one thing that we all know- if an athlete wants to play at higher level they are going to have to participate in camps, combines, and showcases. The offseason is much different than it was 10 years ago. Athletes are using it […] The post Tips for Combine Training appeared first on Team Sports Performance| Online Strength and Conditioning for Teams.

Improving Team Performance with Teambuildr Teambuildr has been an instrumental part of our success. We, as strength and conditioning coaches, are always looking for an edge on how we can improve performance with our teams. Learning new techniques, research, and visiting other coaches that have mentored us are all things that we all do. But […] The post Improving Team Performance with Teambuildr appeared first on Team Sports Performance| Online Strength and Conditioning for Teams.

Movement Screen for Athletes: The Deep Squat Movement Screen for athletes are critical to insight in an athletes movement and motor patterns. We, MVP Training, Screen athletes for several different reasons. Sports Performance coaches most often miss these movement patterns or disfunction in motor patterns that we find. MVP Training has done extensive research with […] The post Movement Screen for Teams: The Overhead Squat appeared first on Team Sports Performance| Online Strength and Conditioning for Teams.

Strength and Conditioning on a Budget Being a strength and conditioning coach can be tough enough but limiting the equipment and the facilities is just another challenge that we know all too well. You haven’t really experienced this until you have glued a collar on a bar, made your own PVC Roller, or tried to […] The post Strength Coach on a Budget appeared first on Team Sports Performance| Online Strength and Conditioning for Teams.

Barefoot Training for Teams There has been a lot of great research and improvement from barefoot training but just recently within the last few years there has been a much bigger focus on performance through athletics. It makes a ton of sense to those of us that are in the field of performance. Athletic development […] The post Barefoot Training for Teams appeared first on Team Sports Performance| Online Strength and Conditioning for Teams.

“Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance” Weight Room Safety can improve performance many ways. First I want to share a story with you… General Electric (GE) is one of the largest manufactures in the US today. But years ago this wasn’t the case. They were struggling to find their way going through CEO after CEO trying […] The post Why Weight Room Safety Improves Performance? appeared first on Team Sports Performance| Online Strength and Conditioning for Teams.