Randy Peterson May 13, 2019 9 min read Let’s paint a picture: an athlete reaches for their toes and can’t get anywhere past shin level. They are told they have “tight” hamstrings, and are told multiple times by various sources that they need to “stretch to loosen up.” This same athletes goes home every night after practice and training and does the basic sit-and-reach and touch-your-toes activities, or banded static stretches, yet comes back every day and has seen no notable

Randy Peterson Jun 5, 2019 5 min read Everybody has had that coach on the sidelines who tries to coach his or her athletes through every single move like they are robots trying to complete a task. Constant yelling and screaming. Always organizing offensive and defensive sets. Players getting torn apart during time-outs. Players constantly looking at the sideline to see if they are getting taken out because they did something wrong. I had a coach like this when I was in middle

Introduction Isometric training means are one of the most misunderstood and under-utilized training tools in the physical preparation coaches’ toolbox. I can speak for myself that when I first began my own training, the only form of isometric training that you would find in my program is a pause at end range trying to stimulate a hypertrophy response (because I was an uninformed meathead), or some plank variation to address stabilization competency (because my understanding w

Go to a track meet, football practice, or sports performance facility, and I will almost guarantee you will see athletes performing some combination of: marching patterns, A, B, and C skips, high knees, and sled pushes. I am not here to knock what anybody else is doing, as I believe almost anything can be used to facilitate success. Additionally, I have used all of these strategies, and still do with certain populations even after implementing some changes in thought processe

Champion’s Mindset Introduction (1,300 words: 5-7 minute read) By: Randy Peterson Lately I have been thinking a lot about the differences between those who are extraordinary at what they do versus those who are average or below-average at what they do. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses, and everyone has subjects that they find sensationally interesting or blisteringly boring, but I have been noticing trends amongst those who would be classified as successful in their ende

I would like to start this off by prefacing that I am not a parent, caretaker, or guardian of a child. I have no blood-related nieces or nephews, and I am fairly inexperienced in the grand scheme of things being just 24 years old. That said, I personally believe I am above average at observing and noticing trends. Additionally, I have been working with youth athletes for over two years now in performance training, and I coached youth basketball for five years prior to that. M