Being a goalie in soccer is a very unique position and one of the toughest positions to play. As a coach, you must find soccer goalie drills that incorporate the goalkeepers into your training sessions. If you’re coaching a young team, chances are that you don’t have a specific goalie on the team and instead all…
How competitive are you? Heck, competitive is in the name of our sport. It’s right there: “competitive swimming.” And yet, a lot of swimmers shy away from being competitive for fear of the negative connotations attached to the word. They worry about appearing greedy or narcissistic. Like most things in life, there is healthy competition…
For his entire life, East Palestine’s Parker Sherry has been climbing. What started out as hay bails, trees, and hills that were being climbed turned into depth charts, record books, and now prospect stock. Sherry has a gratefulness about him that is very contagious, but don’t misinterpret his genuine love for the game of football…
As a gold medal Olympian and FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion, Alex Morgan knows more than most about the importance of sleep and recovery. “I abuse my body every day for my job on the pitch,” she told Entrepreneur, “so it is vital to me to feel rested and recovered when I wake up.” To that end, Morgan has…
A video captured the angry crowd as it swarmed a football field to protest a penalty flag. A man grabbed the referee from behind and body-slammed him onto the ground. The players, who looked on, stunned, were 13 years old. The assailant was a parent at his son’s youth football game in Albuquerque. The New…
How to Practice More Effectively 1) Try to do something golf related every day In this article we talked about a player who took a 30-day challenge with a great training aid called the Orange Whip. Sometimes it’s better to do something for 5-10 minutes each day, rather than one long session per week. It…
When practicing, Stephen Curry must swish 5 out of 10 free throws. Ray Allen is the first to the arena. Then he goes through a form shooting routine and progresses to 3-point shooting. Great shooters have routines. I believe the following shooting routine will help you develop into a great shooter or make you an…
Using activities that kids naturally enjoy and movements that allow Teens to optimize their physical ability, our Fit Kids and Teens programs provide a fitness program that is safe, fun and energetic. A variety of games are used to focus on basic physical skills. Fit Kids and Teens workouts are tailored to the unique needs…
Being a goalie in soccer is a very unique position and one of the toughest positions to play. As a coach, you must find soccer goalie drills that incorporate the goalkeepers into your training sessions. If you’re coaching a young team, chances are that you don’t have a specific goalie on the team and instead all…
Using activities that kids naturally enjoy and movements that allow Teens to optimize their physical ability, our Fit Kids and Teens programs provide a fitness program that is safe, fun and energetic. A variety of games are used to focus on basic physical skills. Fit Kids and Teens workouts are tailored to the unique needs…
There may be no more important position on the football field than the quarterback. Though the following set of drills and programs are not terribly extensive or long individually, when coupled together they can vastly improve a quarterbacks technique–especially in the drop back, set-up, and delivery of the ball. Two Knee Drill ( 20 passes)…
Running Back Blocking Drill: Strike, Extension and Finish Strike Drill One player is going to get on the knees and they will work on isolating body parts while learning to strike up and in, extending the hips. This would be used for a linebacker coming in on a blitz. It’s important to learn to stay…
“The Drop” is one of the absolute most important drills for a quarterback to perfect. This takes place on most passing downs and can make the difference between a decent high school quarterback and a D1 scholarship quarterback. Watch how Steve ingrains the footwork of the drop, the position of the hips throughout it and…
Summer conditioning for football and other fall sports (especially down south where the weather forecast is usually the same day in and day out—hazy, humid, and 90+ degrees) can be a strength and conditioning coach’s worst nightmare. Growing up in these conditions does not always mean you are used to them, and it does not…
Tennis fitness drills is often the least favorite part of training for tennis players at any level. Most tennis players dread the process of undergoing the various intensive tennis fitness drills mentioned below, but these drills can have a substantial impact on a tennis player’s speed, agility and explosiveness on the tennis court. Club players…
At first I was a little intimidated. Every time we would head to class my stomach started to hurt. I was nervous about working out! It sounds ridiculous but it’s true. Lifting heavy weights, learning techniques and being around intense trainers dropping heavy weights hadn’t been something I pictured myself doing. The stereotypical “fashion blogger”…
Stop the other team from scoring and you will never lose a game. This is the idea behind defense in field hockey. With such a low-scoring sport, preventing the other team from scoring will give your team a huge advantage. Your team can win or lose depending on just one goal. People often give credit…
Jillian Pransky wasn’t always the calming, glowing presence she is today. Twenty years ago, the New Jersey-based yogi was as fired up by the corporate ladder as she was by the step classes and rigorous marathon training she subjected her body to. If it was hard, she was into it, and as a natural result,…
