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January 18, 2021 0

This is my attempt to summarize the essence of sprinting. Nothing complicated, just the basics. No need to complicate. Let’s start with a generic definition of speed. Speed is the…

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January 11, 2021 0

What is Your Lens?

What is your lens? Each of us has a preferred lens to view an exercise, a specific movement or to evaluate a training method. Our preferred lens will bias our…

Vern Gambetta's Blog

November 6, 2020 0

Making Shapes

Shapes was brought to the forefront of my thinking about 10 years ago when I was working with one of my swim teams. The coach kept talking about getting smaller…

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October 30, 2020 0

House of Cards

Always build and rebuild your athletes from the ground up. Emphasize training movements that connect and coordinate. Start with fundamental movements and add complexity as the athlete’s gain mastery of…

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June 30, 2020 0

Landing

Working on landing as an isolated skill is probably misdirected work. Here is my thought process – aside from long jump, final jump in the triple jump and landings in…

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