Joel Smith Archives - Page 17 of 22

Integrating T&F Coaching Principles into Team Sports

As a track coach, my job is to be part of a very precise system which focuses on typically one […]

The squat is critical to long term athletic improvement. Heck, it’s important for any athletic improvement. No matter what your

Great athletes are strong. Always. The longer I have coached and trained, the more true this statement has become to

If there is one specific physical quality that athletes want, it is speed. My day job is to strength train

A Guide to Hip and Knee Dominant Athletes, and Why Not Knowing the Difference is Holding Back Your Progress There

Athletes need deer’s muscles, not those of an ox! At least that is what the opponents of Dr. Yuri Verkhoshansky

Virtually every athlete starts doing Olympic lifts for one of two reasons. Reason 1: Because their coach or gym teacher

Vertical jump training programs are a scam. Well, many of them are. Is it because they don’t work? No… it

If, upon threat of death, you had to increase your vertical leap 6” in the next month, how would you

Periodization is a rather ignorant term. Why? Because it is a blanket that is often used to justify using ineffective

Imagine a bench press program where the function of the chest muscles were constantly ignored. Would that program be successful?

Coaches are in a sense, sculptors of the human body. We take an athlete and mold him or her to