The craft and science of athlete preparation.

As coaches and sport scientists, we often are responsible for the training and the testing of our athletes. I strongly encourage you to remove the athletes names from the data once it is processed. Look at the data without assumptions and context, does it make sense? Which subject looks the

Recently, Luke wrote a post arguing if you don't love the process it's okay to leave S&C. As it happens, I have already been meditating on this idea of passion in our field for a while. The reason is because, like I'm

Any research into the theory of training and you'll likely stumble across the same three models. The General Adaptation Syndrome Theory, The Fitness-Fatigue Model, and a variation of the Stimulus-Fatigue-Recovery-Adapatation theory. For most of us, we've probably at least stumbled across one,

As a strength coach, instructor and graduate research fellow, I tend to be pretty busy. Between coaching, teaching and researching, finding time to train can be difficult. One of the best improvements I've made to my own training was to stop caring about it so much. I always

In both training and coaching, successful people seem to always share a love of the process. Don't get me wrong, there have been and always will be bad sessions, games, and lifts that make everyone hate what they are doing along the way. I also don't