Blog Growing Future Leaders It’s our responsibility to grow future coaches as well as developing your own coaching abilities. You cannot do one without doing the other. It is vitally important to bring Adam Ringler 15 Oct 2012 · 1 min read
Blog A Leader's Oath The ladies came together gathering around the central pillar in our weight room to receive feedback from our strength & conditioning staff regarding the outcome of their mission. They circled Adam Ringler 31 May 2012 · 3 min read
Blog Leadership. It's a 24/7 Responsibility Being a leader isn’t a temporary job. It’s not season position or a typical nine to five. It isn’t a trait that you can turn on or Adam Ringler 14 Feb 2011 · 3 min read
Blog Are You Making Yourself? - Nike Women I've wrote about Nike's "Real Women" advertisements in the past via this post here [http://www.adamringler.com/blog/nikes-new-ad-campaign-real-women/]. I've said Adam Ringler 10 Feb 2011 · 1 min read
Blog Why Are They Still Crunching? Why are athletes still crunching for core development but more importantly why are coaches still programming abdominal crunches and sit-ups? I don’t think both parties are doing it to Adam Ringler 4 Feb 2011 · 3 min read
Blog Stop Learning...Start Dying? What a fantastic quote by Lillian Smith. Too often coaches get set in a routine that becomes 'comfortable'. When you ignore current research, advice, science breakthroughs, in relation Adam Ringler 30 Jan 2011 · 1 min read
Blog Red's Coaching Blog I'm always excited to share the valuable resources that I use in order to better my knowledge and coaching quality. One of the most fascinating blogs that I Adam Ringler 28 Jan 2011 · 1 min read
Blog Preparing Athletes From the Neck Down & The Neck Up Be a Team Player Despite what the formal Wichita State Strength & Conditioning job description specifies, part of my responsibility is protecting the WSU teams’ integrity from opponents and from Adam Ringler 27 Jan 2011 · 4 min read
Blog My Home Away From Home This is where I get the bulk of my program design, writing, implementation changes, research and education done. This is, quite literally, my home away from home. I wish I Adam Ringler 25 Jan 2011 · 1 min read
Blog Grooving Movement Patterns Before Loading I often explain to athletes that our strength and conditioning program is much like the Tortoise and the Hare analogy. If we get overly concerned with adding weight and progressing Adam Ringler 24 Jan 2011 · 1 min read
Blog Knee Valgus Angle During Landing Tasks in Female Volleyball and Basketball Players Having the experience to work with both the Wichita State Women's Basketball and Volleyball team, I find this article extremely interesting. While at first eye glance you may Adam Ringler 24 Jan 2011 · 1 min read
Blog Applying the Five Levels of Leadership What The Five Levels of Leadership Are Level 1: Position (Power) - Given by Company People Follow Because they Have to. Level 2: Permission (Relationships) - Earned People follow because Adam Ringler 17 Jan 2011 · 2 min read
Blog Did The Pendulum Swing Too Far? Did the Pendulum concerning physical therapy methods, prehabilitition, functional movements, and identifying asymmetries swing too far? Are we losing the strengthening of our Strength & Conditioning profession? Adam Ringler 17 Jan 2011 · 1 min read
Blog Proper Programming, Movement Training & Recovery Efforts in the MVC Being in the position I am at Wichita State University, I get to witness and work with some of the most tremendous athletes in our conference and the NCAA. Being Adam Ringler 4 Jan 2011 · 5 min read
Blog Maximizing Your Time I open one eye to see the illumination of my alarm clock reflecting off the back of my white bedroom wall. I think to myself, "It must be that Adam Ringler 20 Dec 2010 · 4 min read
Blog Everything You Need For some people I know, they get excited and all revved up by watching videos of extremely fast & pricey cars. I, unfortunately, am not one of these guys. What Adam Ringler 17 Dec 2010 · 1 min read
Blog Protect Your Team I was once taught by a dear friend and mentor that things are "Always Earned, Never Given". It was dead in the middle of the day with several Adam Ringler 14 Dec 2010 · 2 min read
Blog Protecting Your Team from the Sorrow of Defeat The best way to protect your teammates from the sorrow of defeat is never accepting excuses or ‘the easy way’ out of a tough situation. While it is important to Adam Ringler 7 Dec 2010 · 4 min read
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