Blog Featured Understanding Force Plate Testing in Basketball What’s All the Buzz About? Ever wonder how the world's best basketball players always seem to defy gravity, exploding off the court for jaw-dropping dunks or shifting direction on a dime? Picture this: The clock’s ticking down, and your favorite player—let’s say someone like
Blog Building Stronger Athletes Through Collaboration: The Power of Teamwork in Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Athletes need more than just numbers on a screen; they need facilities, programs, and teams that respond to their specific needs, pushing them towards greatness while maintaining their health and wellness.
Blog Harnessing the Power of Sport Analytics in Collegiate Coaching Modern day analysts, who aid coaches in planning for peak performance, often stress the importance of integrating analytics with coaching strategies rather than producing reports that are full of high-level concepts and not connected to actionable plans.
Blog Treating your Strength & Conditioning Program like a Tech Startup "By treating your strength and conditioning program like a startup incubator, you create a dynamic environment where innovation thrives"
Blog Blue Light & Performance Outcomes There are safe ways to use technology and still achieve quality sleep; and student-athletes need to understand the broader influences on recovery.
Paid-members only Blog Featured 12 Essential Realities for Coaches and Athletes to Embrace for Success This article delves into 12 essential realities that, while often uncomfortable to acknowledge, are crucial for achieving sustained success and fulfillment in sports.
Blog Coach's Schedule, Administrator's Schedule Time blocking can be a useful tool for estimating the time needed to complete a task and can help you to stay on track and avoid overcommitting yourself.
Blog Featured A Performance Coach's Guide to Reducing Dopamine Dependency; Starting with Your iPhone If you're aiming to reduce your screen time and embrace digital minimalism without relinquishing your smartphone entirely, this guide offers promising solutions.
Blog Featured The Secret Weapon for Explosive Strength and Power Post-activation potentiation training techniques offers a scientifically-backed method to enhance explosive strength and power.
Blog Featured Applying Bayesian Methodologies to Strength & Conditioning Coaching Bayesian modeling, often overlooked in the realm of Athletics, Coaching, and Strength & Conditioning, holds great promise for optimizing training strategies. It diverges from traditional approaches, offering unique advantages.
Blog Featured Igniting the Inner Flame: Beyond Motivation, Unlocking Student-Athlete Potential What if the the concept of "motivating" student-athletes is the first barrier we need to break through - in order to successfully "guide" them?
Blog Featured From Past to Future: Predicting and Preventing Challenges in Strength and Conditioning Coaching "This shift from reactive to proactive coaching requires a willingness to step back and engage in a process of predictive analysis. This involves gathering data and insights from various perspectives to form informed hypotheses about potential future challenges."
Blog Featured Climbing the World of Strength & Conditioning As I've delved deeper into the world of climbing, I've started to notice some interesting parallels between my work as a strength and conditioning coach and the skills and techniques needed to be a successful climber.
Blog Featured Time Management Timeboxing is a time management technique that involves breaking down your day into specific time slots or boxes for each task. By doing so, you can better focus on one task at a time, increase productivity, and ultimately achieve more.
Blog Advancements in Physical Development: Combining Experience & Data A new era of athletic development is marked by a focus on individualized training programs, data-driven decision making, and a shift towards a more holistic approach to athlete development.
Blog Featured Samson Strength Coach Collective - Episode 086 In this episode of The Samson Strength Coach Collective, Adam Ringler, who is the Director of Sport Performance/Head of Sport Science at The University of Colorado.
Featured #065 - Isometrics within Athlete Evaluations & Performance Training In this episode of the Decoding Excellence Show, I'm discussing how we utilize Isometric Training across our performance benchmarking & testing, strength and conditioning programming, and several of the technologies we use to collect this information.
Featured #064 - Mini-Episode: Updates from Colorful Colorado In this episode of the Decoding Excellence Show, I'm discussing some of the new things we're doing around University of Colorado Boulder.
Blog Featured Data-Driven Organizations As someone who’s worked for over 15-years at the intersection of athletics and data, the fusion of these domains are both my wildest dreams and my most extreme challenges. Here's a few thoughts. Organizations around the globe recognize the emergence of data and its pivotal role in
Blog Featured Build Your First Dashboard Slides from the 60-minute educational workshops dedicated to teaching you how to build your first dashboard within the Kitman Labs system.
Blog An Instagram Live Conversation with Adam Ringler Jay and I get the great opportunity to catch-up about how we can maximize some of the time and opportunities in our COVID down time.
Blog Featured Iron Game Chalk Talk 2.0 In this episode of Iron Game Chalk Talk 2.0, I sit down with Isaiah Castilleja to talk about sport science and some of the exciting things we're doing at University of Colorado Boulder
Blog Featured Technology in the Weight Room In this episode of Powering Performance, I'm joining Ryan Carroll to talk all things technology and sport science in collegiate athletics. Tune in to hear more on how we use technology in the weight room, how to maximize the use of these tools, and helpful tips for deciding what tech to bring in.
Blog Featured The Data Journey: Collaborating, engaging and creating change with data Adam Ringler shares best practices and lessons learned from CU’s innovative journey to a University-wide implementation of their strategic vision
Blog Developing a High Performance Ecosystem Inside this webinar, I discuss many elements of designing a high performance sport ecosystem within the collegiate athletics model.
