pliometrics – Excelsior

Speed training – use of hurdles

By Team | February 26, 2015 |

I am often asked what equipment is needed for training speed. I am a bit of a luddite when it comes to such things, thinking that I should develop my own coaching and observation before using gadgets

Strength and conditioning for basketball: some thoughts.

By Team | February 9, 2015 |

If you think that basketball conditioning should resemble a scene from Coach Carter with repeated running in straight lines, you might be mistaken.

Basketball speed I am lucky enough to train some good young basketball players. Most of them arrive with some sort of work ethic and overall athleticism.

Istvan “Steve” Javorek’s top 4 training tips

By Team | December 15, 2010 |

Istvan “Steve” Javorek is famous for his book and methodology of training with complexes.

Here are 4 nuggets of training advice that I gleaned from a 2 day workshop with him 3 years ago:

Repeated jumps versus single jumps

By Team | August 24, 2010 |

Bondarchuk in his Transfer of Training in Sport highlights research from Eastern Europe that shows that performing repeated jumps is more effective in improving sporting performance than doing single jumps for distance.