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5 Reasons why Landmine Variations Should be a Staple in Your Training

Danny Foley- MS, CSCS,D

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Let’s get this out of the way right off the jump in case you’re unfamiliar to what a “landmine” configuration is. A landmine rig is a training apparatus that has become increasingly more popular and commonplace in training facilities. The primary distinction of a landmine rig is that it provides a rotational axis, and can be utilized in a myriad of ways. Here is a quick video demonstrating one of the more conventional ways this apparatus is used:Landmine Strict PressIf you’re a strength coach,

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3 Tips for Increasing Vertical Jump

Danny Foley- MS, CSCS,D

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In the athletic world, very few things draw more attention than someone’s 40-yard dash, pitch velocity, or vertical jump. On one hand, these measurables can be superfluous, misleading, and overvalued by coaches and athletes alike. On the other hand, not only are they practical and important for athletic success, but we’re lying to ourselves if we suggest that blazing a 4.4 forty, clocking 93 mph on the gun, or hitting a 40” vertical aren’t wildly impressive feats that can singlehandedly change

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Core Training- Refocused

Danny Foley- MS, CSCS,D

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I cannot even begin to count how many times I’ve been working with someone for an extended period of time only to one day randomly be hit with the inevitable “so… when are we gonna do some more ab stuff?” Early on for me, this was an incredibly irritating conversation to have. I was almost annoyed, or even a bit offended that I was getting this question having known that core training was heavily sampled in our workouts. But as I’ve grown, it actually creates more of a sense of inadequacy on m

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Assessing & Evaluating Athletes

Danny Foley- MS, CSCS,D

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As with almost anything in strength and performance training, there isn’t a right or wrong way to go about evaluating your athletes (within obvious reason). Everyone has their own approach, and there can be a valid advocation for a litany of these approaches. Formalized assessments have been around for decades, but have been subject to criticism more recently, and for somewhat justifiable reason in my opinion. It was particularly rampant following the explosion of the Functional Movement Syste

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3 Reasons for Aerobic Training

Danny Foley- MS, CSCS,D

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I hate conditioning. I won’t sugar coat it one-bit, conditioning sucks to do and personally is very mundane to coach. Nevertheless, it needs to get done regardless. Along similar lines, I also feel debate/discussion surrounding energy system’s training is one of the most wasteful topics in the never-ending well of “shit strength coaches bark about”. Sport specific conditioning for athletics is one of the easiest training variables to analyze:-Build an aerobic base to work from-Go to a game/compe

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Training the Tactical Athlete

Danny Foley- MS, CSCS,D

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Admittedly, I’m not too big on the term “tactical athlete” because of the sweeping misconceptions surrounding it. However, it is the population that I’ve worked with pretty much exclusively over the last four years. I’ve been very fortunate to work with some truly amazing people who also happen to be world-class athletes. I’ve also been very fortunate to work where I do at VHP, which has given me just about every advantage to succeed as I could ask for. It’s been a steady learning curve througho

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