Today’s podcast guest is Bob Thurnhoffer. Bob is the jumps coach at the University of Louisville, with over 20 years of Division I coaching experience. He has coached NCAA champions, All-Americans, ...

In this show, Frank explores rhythm, adaptability, and what it means to train the “human animal” in a modern world. We discuss dance and percussion, specialization versus exploration, the costs of ...

Most plyometrics posted these days are the result of a moment of inspiration via a creative coach, or the evolution of a popular jump movement. These are typically the popular items on social media ...

Joel Smith is the founder of Just Fly Sports and is a sports performance and track coach in Cincinnati, Ohio. Joel hosts the Just Fly Performance Podcast and has authored several books and coaches in ...

Notes from the Editor: It’s a bit of the classic Rocky versus Ivan Drago style debate, in the sense of creative and intuitive training versus a data and analytic driven method. The truth is that ...

Most athletes and coaches talk about training the posterior chain, but common gym-based methods like squats and RDLs often miss the mark neurologically and functionally—especially for sprinting and ...

All of us javelin throwers can probably agree that there is not a more frustrating aspect of the throw than the hip drive and block. The best throwers have it, the rest of us don’t. On top of that, ...

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The solutions to our problems are often simpler than we think. Many times, the answers to our questions are innate – we just assume we’re not smart enough to know. We think we need more degrees, more ...

I recently got a message from an athlete telling me that he got his first dunk recently, this being after training for many years. Many times, we expect to hear that there was some “amazing”, or ...

Joel Smith is the founder of Just Fly Sports and is a sports performance/track coach in Cincinnati, Ohio. Joel hosts the Just Fly Performance Podcast, has authored several books on athletic ...

If you want to run faster, jump higher, cut harder or throw further, then power development exercises and their proper planning is critical to understand. Everyone wants more power in their athletic ...