Sooner or later as your coaching experience grows – you may be asked to take on a new athlete. But how do you go about building this new relationship and integrating the athlete into an existing squad? Rohan Short shares five useful tips for how to effectively absorb new athletes into your squad.

The article will introduce the principles of internal and external training load and encourage you to monitor both internal and external load measurements of your athletes.

What can the coach do to ensure that the time the athlete is spending in the weights room is being used most effectively for performance gains? This article looks at how we can select exercises in the gym that have the greatest transfer to sprinting performance.

Over the last few years, more and more sports stars and wellknown athletes have also made the decision to go green and follow a vegan diet.” This article looks at nutrition strategies to balance elite performance with a vegan diet and is a must-read for any coach with athletes following a vegan, pesco-vegetarian, or lacto-vegetarian diet.

What is Mental Toughness? What makes an athlete mentally tough? How can you test the mental toughness of your athletes? This article answers these questions and gives you the tools as a coach to begin to develop the mental toughness of your athletes.

Loren Landow, owner of Landow Performance, shows some example progressions and cues for correct accleration mechanics. This video has been produced by the National Strength and Conditioning Association in the USA.

Throws coaching expert Peter Taylor shares an overview of the glide technique with coaching points and common faults.

This article will examine four key research papers on the benefits and sport-specific effectiveness of plyometrics training. We will examine their findings and place the results in the context of the wider peer-reviewed literature and expert opinion on the topic.

Based on a lecture by Tom Tellez, this article shares his approach to coaching the sprints. This article covers the notes that were made, outlining what he identified as the key priorities for each stage of a 100m and the verbal cues that he used with his athletes.

This chart provides a general overview of the optimal distances, intensity, rest, and daily training loads for developing the different components of speed, speed endurance, and tempo running.

This article looks at the vital pre-competition phase of training for throwers, providing information about technique oriented training, converting overall physical capacity into specific explosive power and examining the importance of intensity, control, and the correct psychological approach.

Part 2 of Peter Taylor’s guide for coaching the Hammer Throw. This section icludes coaching advice, drills, common faults, and corrections.

Peter Taylor shares five critical teaching points, coaching cues, and training exercises for coaching the Hammer and introducing the correct technical model.

This article will explain what is meant by the term ‘Complex Training’, how it may benefit your athletes, and how to implement a complex training session.

Based on the article ‘Progressions of Isometric Core Training’ authored by Mendrin, Lynn, Griffith-Merritt, & Noffal (2016), Loren Landow takes us through the coaching points, progressions, and demonstrations for the exercises found to be the safest and most effective for the development of core strength and stability to improve performance and reduce the likelihood of injury.

Peter Hannan explains common questions about plyometrics and shares exercises that he finds useful for coaching sprinters, hurdlers and jumpers.

Australian Level 4 High Performance sprints coach, Paul Pearce, explains his approach to training and weekly training structure for his sprinting group.

View this video to observe the desired technique and coaching cues for five of the fundamental drills for Track and Field athletes. Essential knowledge for all Athletics coaches.

This article contains information for athletics coaches working with athletes diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Muscles are remarkably powerful… but have have a major performance issue: they can’t produce much force when they’re shortening at high speed. So how is it that we can move so quickly?