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 changes. This is...

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-school, and it...

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 was very narrow...