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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]