Archive

Category: Coach Tips

Goblet Squats: 6 Tips to Crush That Next Set

What the hell is a goblet squat?: A Goblet Squat is a key lower body movement for us here at Elais Sports Performance. It is an anteriorly loaded bilateral knee dominant resistance exercise typically performed with a dumbbell or kettlebell. If you prefer english, it’s a lower body exercise where

Read More »

4 Exercise Methods To Fight Aging

    It’s no secret that as you age sometimes you have to deal with more unpleasantness than you did in your youth. As a kid your biggest worry might’ve been what movie to watch, where you were going to play with your friends, or the mystery meat at lunch

Read More »

4 Proven Myths in Youth Sports Performance

In today’s day and age there is no shortage of information and data surrounding health, fitness, and working out. The problem is that this abundance of information has also led to an abundance of misinformation.  This is especially true when it comes to training youth athletes in the weight room. 

Read More »

Power Development For Athletes: Best And Worst Practices

When training athletes, or even the general population, a common, desirable adaptation is increased power output. In order to understand how to train for power, we first have to understand exactly what power is. The equation for power in the context of athletics is: P = force x velocity Force

Read More »
Administrative/Management

It’s Time to Pay Your Interns! It’s The Right Thing To Do

If you’re a full-time strength and conditioning coach today, chances are you had to do more than a couple internships to even get your foot in the door. Especially if you are a full-time college strength and conditioning coach. Personally, I had to do 3 internships before getting paid as

Read More »
Coach Tips

Ground-Based Training For Non-Ground-Based Sports

There are two major things I want to cover in this article. First, I will go over why it is important to train plyo’s, jumping, and field-based movements (all to be known as ground-based training/movements going forward). Second, I will show how I have successfully implemented ground-based training in the

Read More »
Scroll to Top

Fill out the form below and one of our coaches will be in touch!