We’ve finally come full circle. Living life as a Mercenary coach,the part-time/assistant coach, is never easy. Riding your Harley from gym to gym while your leather coat […]
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There is a common vernacular that many of us in the Power Athlete nation speak; “Empower your Performance”, “Unlock Athletic Potential”, and “documentary series” are a […]
It’s that time of year again. The gifts unwrapped, the trees and lights have been put away, and the N*SYNC Christmas album placed back on the […]
This weekend we wrapped up the 2018 Power Athlete Symposium, the premier symposium in strength and conditioning-ing-ing. While there were an almost infinite number of knowledge […]
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Tagged coaching, empower your performance, Nutrition, PA Symposium 2018, Performance, Programming, Strength and Conditioning, Wade's Army, Youth Athletes
It’s coming, the most delicious time of the year, winter holiday season. While all the necessary components are there for sound nutrition plan, there is still […]
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Tagged coaching, diet, empower your performance, fuel the fire, Holidays, Nutrition, paleo, Performance, Thanksgiving
There are an incredible number of cultures spread across this disk we call Earth. If we use language as a dividing line to separate one culture […]
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Tagged Coach's Responsibility, Coaches Development, coaching, empower your performance, mercenary coach, Power Athlete, Power Coach, Process, Serves One
BE THE HAMMER! When you read that, chances are you imagine an athlete lowering their shoulder and trucking over someone on the field, driving them into […]
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Tagged Application, coaching, empower your performance, Limiting Factor, Programming, Speed, Sport, Strength, Strength and Conditioning, training, What are you training for?
During our last chalk talk, we discussed what it meant to be a Mercenary Coach, the part-time/assistant coach. We covered how you can make yourself an […]
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Heavy footballs, “banded” sprints, basketball with ankle weights. While all this could easily be mistaken as sport specific training, in reality this is simply simulation of […]
We spend a lot of time here at @powerathletehq dropping knowledge bombs, repeating jokes, and dropping knowledge bombs with repeated jokes, to help prepare coaches across […]
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Is the first experience of the new members to your gym’s culture a box ticking coach blindly following some onboarding program to push a square peg […]
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Tagged coaching, CrossFit, empower your performance, Fundamentals, Group Fitness, Microgym, Onboarding, Performance, Programming, Strength and Conditioning, training
If you’re a field or court sport athlete, you’re entering the greatest time of the year…summer training! As spring sports finish up their seasons, fall sports […]
“Sleep is for the weak!”…probably one of the more common phrases in today’s society, right along with “I’ll rest when I’m dead!” I’m sure we’ve all […]
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Tagged coaching, empower your performance, Injury Prevention, Performance, Recovery, Sleep, What The Science Says, Youth Athletes
Part of being a good strength and conditioning coach is knowing where an athlete is at in their life cycle, and applying the correct program to […]
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Tagged athleticism, Bedrock, Coaches Development, Communication, empower your performance, Field Strong, Strength and Conditioning
As we learned in Power Athlete Episode – 251 with Adriaan Louw, working with athletes in pain is a tricky business, but one that has fast […]
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Tagged Adriaan Louw, chronic pain, Dynamic Movement Prep, empower your performance, Limiting Factor, mental toughness, Pain, pain therapy, training
It seems to be all the rage now, with online health coaches and internet fitness models claiming intermittent fasting can accomplish everything from getting you 6 […]
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Tagged diet, empower your performance, intermittent fasting, Nutrition, Performance, Power Athlete, What are you training for?
Ever feel like you’ve been totally beat? No drive, wanting to just say “f*ck it” and stay home, or just walk your dog and call it […]
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Tagged Brain, coaching, Dynamic Movement Prep, empower your performance, Field Sports, football, Injury Prevention, Limiting Factor, movement, Power Athlete, Sport, Strength and Conditioning, stress, stress management, train harder, train smarter, training, What are you training for?
In this country, 62% of women are using some form of contraceptive. Of those, almost 50% are using a type of hormonal method such as the […]
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Tagged athletic performance, Birth Control, empower your performance, Female Athlete, nutrient deficiency, Nutrition, Testosterone
We get asked this age old question all the time: How much rest should we get between sets? If you’re in the camp that goes by […]
The human voice: it’s the instrument we all play. It’s the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It’s the only one that can start a […]
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Tagged coaching, Communication, empower your performance, inflection, Limiting Factor, Strength and Conditioning, tone
On your journey to sharpen your coaching voice we started by examining nonverbal communication, and how it sends a specific message and influences physiology. The next […]
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Tagged coaching, Communication, empower your performance, language, Limiting Factor, Strength and Conditioning, word selection
So you’ve finally decided to get your shit together. You have it all figured out! You have ditched the junk food. You are getting your 8 […]
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Tagged bloodwork, diet, empower your performance, functional medicine, Gut Health, Hormones, micronutrients, Nutrition, paleo, supplements, Testing
If you’ve been hanging around the Paleo community long enough, you’ve no doubt had a run in with organ meat. And by run in, I mean […]
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Tagged athletic performance, empower your performance, micronutrients, Nutrition, offal, Organ Meat, paleo, power athlete nutrition
By now, most of us are familiar with the Paleo diet or some version of a diet comprised of whole foods. Good chance you have read […]
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Tagged colorful gains, diet, empower your performance, micronutrients, Nutrition, Performance
All right Diet Diva’s, time to drop some knowledge bombs and crush your little hearts. You think you’re doing yourself a favor trading in your Pepsi […]
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Tagged artificial sweeteners, battle the bullshit, bulletproof gut, diet, empower your performance, fuel the fire, immune system, inflammation, Nutrition, paleo, Performance, sugar
Good news! Coffee is not only good for you but can lead to empowered performance, for some… Are you one of them? For some individuals coffee can […]
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Tagged Coffee, empower your performance, Nutrition, paleo, Performance, power athlete nutrition, Strength and Conditioning, The Melee Way, tyler minton
To most women, Bulk is a 4-letter word and conjures images of spray-tanned bodybuilders with bulging muscles in too tiny, bedazzled bikinis. But what if I […]
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Tagged Bulking, Bulking Protocol, empower your performance, Female Athlete, female power athlete, Look Good Naked, Nutrition, Performance, women
Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you know about the hit HBO series Game of Thrones. Have you seen this towering character they call […]
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Nothing fires me up more than leading the charge against the massive amounts of bullshit in the nutritional world. Luckily, Power Athlete has been in the […]
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Tagged battle bullshit, diet, empower your performance, fuel the fire, Nutrition, Performance, soy
There is a wrong way to squat. And you’re probably doing it wrong. Determining right vs. wrong requires context. If your goal is to squat as […]
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Tagged Dynamic Movement Prep, empower your performance, Field Strong, movement, See Saw Walk, Squat, the basics, Warm Up
Spoiler alert! We are not advocating the performance benefits of consuming cat poo. For those I have misled, I’m sorry, but I promise you, this info […]
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Tagged CAT, Compensatory Acceleration, empower your performance, form collar, form lift, Performance
“I don’t look in the mirror and think “slim”; I look in the mirror and I’m like, “Whoa, beast!” It’s just crazy how much the body […]
Redefining Weakness Training: Approach laid the groundwork. Changing ‘weakness’ to focused practice and development all begins with the term Skill Practice: dedicated, targeted training that drives prudent […]
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Tagged empower your performance, Limiting Factor, Performance, Planes of Motion, Power Coaching, Primal, Skill, Skill Transfer, skill work, training
Your athlete’s (and your own) weaknesses are not improving. Why? Your use of the word, weakness. This word is not empowering performance, it’s enslaving it. This isn’t […]
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Tagged coaching, empower your performance, Limiting Factor, Power Coaching, Raphael Ruiz, Skill, skill work, training
PAHQ understands the power of communication. Nothing beats the experience of a coach and athlete working off the same page. However, as with anything involving more than […]
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Tagged corrective exercises, empower your performance, hips, Limiting Factor, Power Coaching, Squat, Strength
While accountability is the key to success in any business, this is especially true with athletics. In Sport Coach Accountability, we introduced the 3 Pillars of […]
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Tagged athlete, coaching, empower your performance, Field Sports, High School Football, Leadership, Off Season, Performance, Sport Coach
Observation is a powerful tool for a strength and conditioning coach to gain experience at any level or years in the game. Personally, simple observations have […]
The first article in this series, Injury Mechanisms, focused on identifying neuromuscular imbalances present in non-contact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears, one of the most common non-contact […]
better training. better game time decisions. better athletes. This week we have clinical sports psychologist, Vince Lodato. Vince heads the Cooper Speed and Strength Lab out […]
Happy new year, power athlete nation! This week, we’re getting the band back together after a long holiday hiatus. After some discussion of ice luges, pocket-sandwiches, […]
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Tagged Connection, empower your performance, Lessons Learned, New Years, Power Athlete, Power Coaching, Resolutions, Talk To Me Johnnie, Wade's Army
Coaches are teachers, but in sweatpants instead of pantsuits. Traditional teaching involves breaking down challenges such as math formulas or developing an individual’s ability to express […]
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Tagged Application, coaching, Communication, Connection, empower your performance, Power Coach, Strength and Conditioning
Merry Christmas, ya’ filthy animals. This week’s episode is full of surprises as we give you Part 2 to the live broadcast at PAHQ. If you’re […]
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Tagged Brain, elite, empower your performance, Female Athletes, freerunner, male athletes, motivation, Power Athlete, Strength and Conditioning, symposium, woodway