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Guest Blog

December 22, 2017 0

Star Athletes Who Improved With Nutrition

Sometimes it’s hard to imagine what can make a star athlete improve even more. These are people who have worked their whole lives to become professionals, and who are accustomed…

Guest Blog

March 28, 2017 1

The Impact of Sleep on Athletic Performance by Lauren Cowley

[Lauren Cowley is currently a senior at the University of Mount Olive and will graduate in May 2017. She is an Exercise Science Major, and a former NCAA DII Soccer Player. She is…

Vern Gambetta's Blog

February 22, 2016 0

On Speed

Words of wisdom on speed from Gennadi Touretski, although written for swimming this applies to all sports “Speed is everything. I don’t understand why coaches spend months doing countless laps…

Vern Gambetta's Blog

January 9, 2016 0

The Journey Continues

Today I had the first training session of my 46thyear of coaching, a dryland training session at 4:55 AM with the Sarasota YMCA Sharks. It has been an adventure –…

Vern Gambetta's Blog

October 27, 2015 0

How do I know what’s right?

Recently during a presentation to swim coaches on dryland training, a coach asked me how he could know that what I was saying was right? He pointed out that the…

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