Athletic Development Curriculum for Schools is by far the most important way to impact our society with fitness. There are a couple ways to look at an athletic development program for schools. First, there is the athletic population. The athletes that compete on a team and the coaches that direct that programs. Secondly, there is the physical education population, which is the entire student body. Here are a few important points about how both of these can benefit the youth population.
1.    Believe it or not it starts at the Kindergarten …

Balance is one of those “oh yeah- I should throw some balance activities in some time” components to athletic development. Honestly, it should be the main staple of a youth training program.
Balance falls under many areas like, coordination, stability, body awareness, proprioceptive awareness, etc. Balance affects the a fore mentioned and the a fore mentioned affects balance. Training for greater balance at a young age is just another brick in the huge foundation kids should be getting early in life. The bigger the foundation the potential for a higher peak …

Over the past couple month I have worked with a lot of athletes. Athletes from different age ranges, abilities, sports and goals. They all have gotten great results. And you know what…getting results never gets old.
Recently, I was involved with a big project with a good friend of mine, David Jack, and Reebok. I traveled to New Hampshire where we worked with a few top level basketball players. I also have recently trained many athletes while at several of my Pro-Style Combine Clinics and of course, the athletes that come …

Thanks to everyone who sent me suggestions on topics they are interested in learning more about. Because there were so many I am going to start from the top and work my way through all of them over the next several months. Be sure to continue to send suggestions.
One of the many questions I received was how to start the process of designing a speed program. It isn’t as cut and dry as you may think. Sure, I can write a program and hope it lands in good hands, but …

We all have various ways of screening and evaluating athletes. This is a good thing. It means we are looking for red-flags and trying to give ourselves a starting point for the training.
I have found a couple different exercises tell me more about how athletes are going to respond technically to my training than any thing else.
I am big on loading the joints and muscles properly in all acceleration and deceleration skills. It might take some time to get athletes totally there but I want to at least know they …