Athlete Training + Health – N. Houston (Spring-Klein)

Training The Baseball Athlete in the Fall

Once again, Labor Day is upon us… an unofficial welcoming to the beginning of the Fall Season. School is back in session, football is less than a week away, and Baseball athletes are preparing for what will be a long, yet productive year full of hard work, dedication, compromise, and accomplishment! I find Labor Day […]

Hey Strength Coaches, It’s OK to Fail

All too often I see young coaches who are out there and afraid to make a mistake. They’re afraid of looking stupid in front of their peers, or failing in front of their bosses. However, is failure a bad thing? It is all dependent upon how you examine it. One of my favorite stories of […]

Podcast: Todd Hamer on Speed Ladders, Reading Books & Sharing Meals With Athletes

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Being a Strength Coach and a Family Man: Before and After

I can’t help but feel like Jerry McGuire, developing a conscience to write a “mission statement” instead of a simple blog post. I’m not trying to find out, “who’s coming with me?” so I’ll keep it short and try to find the exact 931 words to use in order to steal 5 minutes of your […]

Why Your Leaders On-The-Field Also Need to Be Leaders in the Weight Room

The culture of a team (or organization) has a way of electing leaders that may not be cutout for front rank. Leadership at times can depend on seniority, experience, playing stats or skill rather than physicality, robustness, mentality and will. In my opinion, it is of the utmost importance that the leader of your team is the […]

Why Your Small School Strength Coach Should Be the Highest Paid Coach on Your Staff

Given the amount of education strength coaches must attain combined with many roles they play on an athletics staff, it’s common knowledge that the majority of strength coaches are underpaid. In fact, there are virtually no other professions which require similar demands but pay as little as the strength industry does. However, very few strength […]

What Strength Coaches Should Be Doing in July

Here we are as strength professionals in the “dog days of summer.” July – the month when football players have trained hard from January until now. This is primarily the month where we as strength coaches need to tweak a few things in our programming and get ready to spend seven days a week with […]

Scott Cochran’s Record-Breaking Contract is Good For All Strength Coaches

Unless you live under a rock then you may have heard about the blockbuster contract awarded to Alabama Football’s Head Strength Coach Scott Cochran. He will now be earning $525k per year – more than enough to live nicely in Tuscaloosa, wouldn’t you say? The coach who become famous for his incoherent yelling was even featured […]

TeamBuildr 4.0 is here

TeamBuildr 4.0 is here – a massive release that took more than a year of development. As with many of our past releases, the workout builder (the Calendar) was at the center of our development efforts. From day one, we always aimed to build a product that saved coaches time. This release is no different […]