Sparta founder Phil Wagner, MD interviewed on Wharton School’s Moneyball
It was an honor to be interviewed on Wharton Moneyball, which airs on Business Radio Powered by the Wharton School on Sirius XM. Wharton is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, and...
View ArticleGuest Post: Adam Petway Head Basketball Strength Coach at Arkansas
This weeks guest post comes from Adam Petway, the head strength coach of the Men’s basketball team at the University of Arkansas. Petway oversees all aspects of the Arkansas men’s basketball strength...
View ArticleWhy Power Cannot be Measured
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. – Isaac Newton Why we can’t measure POWER I was first introduced to this concept from a colleague,...
View ArticleVIDEO: James Vaughters preps for the NFL Combine
Linebacker James Vaughters came to us after a successful career at Stanford looking improve his stock before the NFL Draft. He wanted to lose close to 20 pounds in order to become more mobile, and...
View ArticleGuest Post: Managing Stress in BCS Football with Scott Salwasser
This week, we have another guest post from current Strength & Conditioning Coach of the CAL Bears, Scott Salwasser. We all have a limited amount of time to affect change in an athlete. Because of...
View ArticleGet Rid of Day 1, the Importance of Shared Templates
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” Isaac Newton One of the largest sources of confusion with new users of our software is the word “templates.” In...
View ArticleInterview: Chris Coghlan of the Chicago Cubs
As an athlete, how have your expectations of a training program and the coach/trainer changed from high school to college and throughout your professional career? When I was in high school I didn’t...
View ArticleAvoiding the Randoms; What are your Coaching Audibles?
With the spread of democracy and the growth of season travel/duration for athletes, your “plan” and “periodization” are no longer safe. It is certainly critical to have that plan, but also to bring a...
View ArticleNFL injuries: Why are we seeing ACL and LisFranc?
Over the past 14 years in professional football, a few injuries remain cemented as leading causes for players missing time away from football. Among the top four, lies a few common culprits that show...
View ArticleThe New Linebacker: Don’t Measure Strength In Isolation
All sports and their subsequent positions demand more speed than a decade ago. The games have favored schemes with faster tempos, often times even supported by the leagues themselves by installing...
View ArticleYou Cannot Cheat Time; The Most Critical Piece of Training Programs
Can you run your maximum speed for 60 seconds continuously? How about lift maximally for 10 repetitions in a row? None of us can. These questions present a paradox because the idea of a maximum effort...
View ArticleWhy the Force Plate does not Matter
Often times, it is easy for coaches and sports organizations to get caught up in the concrete, particularly hardware as a magical solution that only spews good information. Force plates may appear to...
View ArticleGuest Post: Adam Petway Head Basketball Strength Coach at Arkansas
This weeks guest post comes from Adam Petway, the head strength coach of the Men’s basketball team at the University of Arkansas. Petway oversees all aspects of the Arkansas men’s basketball strength...
View ArticleData Maturity in Sports; The Pursuit of Depth
My favorite story of coaching revolves around a young John Madden, a Hall of Fame football coach, attending a coaching clinic where the speaker was Vince Lombardi, another Hall of Fame football coach....
View ArticleReturning to Play; a Plan to Avoid the Loneliness
The hardest part of returning from injury is loneliness. You are not training or playing with your team or coaches, you are on your own program. It is like treading water in the dark, until suddenly...
View ArticleWhy Bodyweight % isn’t What it Sounds
Anytime bodyweight is mentioned in the realm of sports training, images of “functional training” and weak, overly flexible athletes dance in our heads. So the industry has chosen to base intensities in...
View ArticleLess Reporting, More Analytics; Time well spent
Analytics is the buzzword in sports now. Although most of us couldn’t give the definition, it sounds like the fast-rail pass to where we need to get to. This notion of analytics has made the field of...
View ArticleSelling your Intent
I am finishing up our 3rd week in Spring Training with our MLB partners, and asked a pitching coach how the training program was going; what was good and what could be improved. He responded with my...
View Article“You’re not gonna stay the same.”– Why Everything Matters
Joe Paterno was onto something when he said, “You’re gonna get better or you’re gonna get worse, but you’re not gonna stay the same.” The medical field has known and respected this concept for...
View ArticleThe NFL Combine and Pro Day: 30 years of Bad Data
The College of Business at the University of Louisville conducted a study in 2008 with the goal of determining what (if any) correlation there was between the players’ performance in the combine tests...
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