The act of “managing” athletes tends to bring two completely separate images to mind: either an agent negotiating contracts and financial packages or a coach overseeing the planning and loading of a training program. At Wesport, a new boutique management organization based in Stockholm, those two distinct rails have been merged within a company targeting […]
Digital natives are changing the course of speed development for Germany’s fastest sprinters. Following a long tradition rooted in Soviet and East German methodologies, a new wave of internet-savvy speed coaches in the Hessischer Leichtathletik-Verband (HLV) are using their fluency with YouTube, Instagram, and a host of virtual seminars to add a diverse range of […]
Competing in the top tier of German football (soccer), Borussia Mönchengladbach play a season that begins at the end of one summer and concludes on the cusp of the next, with the regular demands of their league fixtures multiplied during months where the club is also engaged in UEFA Champions League or UEFA Europa League play. […]
Kyle Davey, Coordinator of Athletic Performance at RE_Building by NWRA in Salem, OR, lays out his methods for using resisted sprint sessions with the 1080 Sprint to improve speed with high school athletes.
Magnus Norman, formerly a top-ranked Swedish tennis pro and currently an elite professional coach, describes the long term athletic development program at the Good to Great Tennis Academy, where the coaches coordinate to train the next generation of top Swedish players.
Continuing our educational series “1080 In Session,” Adam Rolf walks through how to assess force outputs in a movement in order to estimate force capacity for the exercise.
