Lance Armstrong admitted doping during the time he won his 7 Tour de France titles.  As professionals in the strength and conditioning industry, what are your thoughts?

Each February, hundreds of the very best college football players are invited to the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Ind., where executives, coaches, scouts and doctors from all 32 NFL teams conduct an intense, four-day job interview in advance of the NFL Draft. Here is a brief breakdown of the measurable drills:

40-yard dash

The 40-yard dash is the marquee event at the combine. It's kind of like the 100-meters at the Olympics: It's all about speed,…

In a recent study released today, 1 in 6 children are considered "obese".  This isn't a new revelation and I'd venture to say that the results of this study made few raise an eyebrow given that the sight of overweight children seems to move closer to the norm with every passing year.  

I'll stop short of saying that it's become an "acceptable" norm as I'd like to continue to believe the percentage of society that doesn't believe overweight children is acceptable still…

LSU’s Tommy Moffitt wins the 2011 Strength Performance College Coach’s Choice Award. The announcement was made on Friday, September 2nd outside the Georgia Dome the day before the Kickoff…

Wake Forest Athletics reports:

Aug. 26, 2011

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Former New York Knicks assistant coach Greg Brittenham has…

What exactly are you doing in your training?

When are you doing it?

How are you doing it?

Why are you doing it?

Who are you doing it with?

Is the training mindful and meaningful or is it just a collections of task the athletes need to get done in order to end the workout?

Do the training tasks connect to the competetive demands of the sport? Are you coaching them or just keep them occupied and entertained?

Is it a partnership with your…

Who says that training for downhill skiing always needs to be performed in snow?

The exercise in this video was considerably easier than I thought it would be, so load should be added, for example, by attaching a long band to the athlete’s waist.

Then the athlete walks backward up the hill until the band is as tight as possible. The band should allow for about 20-30 metres of jumping.

 

As the athlete starts jumping down the hill (s)he is being pulled by the band…

SpursNation.com reports:

Posted on August 22, 2011 at 3:49 pm by Tim…

I was inspired to develop a system by my early mentors. It was easy to see, even at the beginning of my coaching career, that coaches that were successful had a clearly defined system. So over the course of my career I have evolved a system that has worked for me in a variety of sport disciplines at all levels of sport from the developmental level to the elite. The system is general and eclectic therefore it is very…

The Journal Reports: Webster Athletics hires Matt Saitz as strength coach

By John Pohl

August 18, 2011…

Matt Herring Hired as Director of Athletic Performance

Florida State offensive coordinator / tight ends coach James Coley says the program is done releasing forty times and strength statistics.

Coley explained at a recent Seminole Club meeting, “NFL teams use any published times and number they see, and it’s not fair to the kids. A lot of the numbers aren’t accurate, as they’re taken, say at the end of a workout, when the guys are already wore down. Those numbers affect how the NFL looks at them as a prospect, so we’d rather they not get…

NYU Athletics reports:

The New York University Department of Athletics, Intramurals and Recreation has hired a pair of assistant strength and conditioning coaches, Andre Brinsonand Jachin…

Angelique S. Chengelis/ The Detroit News reports:

Ann Arbor— Aaron Wellman was dressed like all the Michigan coaches, in a white polo shirt and khakis, but he tucked himself deep in the corner of the Commons at Schembechler Hall during Sunday's media day, apparently trying to remain unnoticed.

Wellman…

Click here to view a highlight video of Froning's win

CARSON, Calif. -- The "Fittest on Earth" have been crowned: Tennessee Tech assistant strength coach Rich Froning is the 2011 Reebok CrossFit Games champion. An assistant in Tech's Athletic Performance Center, Froning won the title Sunday, culminating a three-day worldwide competition.

The CrossFit Games are the world’s…