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Sports/Fitness Testing!
Welcome to the Testing Homepage! Here you'll find tests to see how you and your athletes are progressing in their training. Everything from speed and agility to flexibility and endurance tests will be featured here.
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Pre-season Testing
Michael Boyle
As fall rolls around the topic for many strength and conditioning coaches becomes pre-season testing. Although many of you have already planned your tests my ideas may stimulate some thought. . . .
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EMG for Strength Coaches
Kevin Neeld
As strength and conditioning coaches, much of what we do involves training the neuromuscular system. Consequently, the more we can learn about the way the neuromuscular system works to produce force and coordinated movement the better we can train our athletes. One of the tools used to monitor the neural input to muscles is electromyography (EMG). EMG can be a confusing area because the signal is affected by so many different things, including well-known things like muscle fiber size and the number of muscle fibers, and less well-known things like body fat and blood flow. While much of the EMG research may be of interest to the strength and conditioning community, it's important to understand what exactly it is and what it measures so that research isn't misinterpreted. Hopefully this article will shed some light on EMG misnomers. . . .
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The ONE and ONLY Way to Improve Your 40!
Mike Boyle
Tips and Drills on how to improve your 40 from Mike Boyle - the person who established the concept of the 'combine camp'. One of his athlete, Mike Mamula, is produced the greatest single day performance in Combine history jumping him from 3rd round to 8th overall pick! . . .
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How to Plan Your Full Year Training Schedule
Sam Walls
Download this breakthrough exclusive 19 page program which gives you everything you'll ever need to create a periodized training program. This amazing program features exact training phases, annual sports plans (off-season, in-season), sample running program, evaluation forms, and a full sample training program complete with exact sets and reps. (a $49 value) . . .
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