Minnesota. It’s called ‘The State of Hockey’ – for good reasons. The University of Minnesota has won five NCAA Men’s Division I Ice Hockey Championships and has been the runner-up eight times. The women’s program has won 6 NCAA Championships. The list of All-Americans, Olympians, and professionals is long. Physiologically, it’s a demanding sport. High-intensity intermittent […]
The new series of battery-powered machines launched at the 1080 Summit this weekend in Park City, Utah, USA. 1080 Motion has delivered machines to professional leagues, Olympic training facilities, national performance centers, rehabilitation clinics, research institutions, and military training facilities – over 600 worldwide. The new machine series offers increased resistance loads while smaller, lighter, […]
Like every year, the NFL Combine and its main event – the 40 yard dash – brought excitement, amazement and debate. For the stats geeks, this performance data (40 yard dash, vertical and broad jumps, 3 cone and 20-yard shuttle and bench press) is now entered into a publicly available repository, which anyone can access […]
The NFL Combine. One week of poking, prodding, and testing potential talent from head to toe – not just figuratively but also literally. Cognitive tests, personality tests, and the head-to-toe medical evaluation. We are not privy to any of these of course, but we do see the on-field skills and drills and athletic performance tests […]
The speed development triangle: what the athlete feels, what the coach sees, and what the data reports. In that order, those three qualities dictate the process coach Garfield Ellenwood uses to attack working with his sprinters and hurdlers. Training athletes ranging from college freshman to Olympians, Ellenwood provides continual sprint development—and that’s the key. He’s […]
Georg Pfarrwaller has done his research. Studied JB Morin’s work on improving acceleration, tested out flywheel training and VBT apps, and tinkered with different loading parameters and periodization models. Coaching for PluSport, a Swiss organization dedicated to developing Paralympic athletes while also offering recreational athletic opportunities for individuals with disabilities, Pfarrwaller faces the dual challenge […]
