Read the field.

Why Aren't We Willing To Work?

The pendulum has swung too far and young coaches have placed too high valuation on themselves before they have has any success.

We Need to Unite and Stop Calling Ourselves Sports Performance Coaches

In this article discover how S&C coaches can unite ALL sectors of our field. One of the ways starts with terminology on our job title. This might seem like small step - but it will pay off for future generations.

Article Review | ACL Reconstruction: The Difference Between Running and Performance Readiness

A critical review of ACL return-to-running research and its application to strength and conditioning practice.

Power Complex Expands and Other New Movements

Not only does the power complex work better when applied like these coaches share - you have time to use these other new movements which help develop athlete strength and robustness.

Are Published ACL Rehab Programs Actually Usable?

ACL Rehab Research vs Reality: Are Published Programs Actually Usable?

The Best Coaches Question Everything

After visiting Cal Dietz, this coach realized the biggest driver of coaching growth isn’t new methods—it’s the ability to question assumptions, challenge norms, and think independently in strength and conditioning.

When Markets Turn, Your Philosophy Can't

Markets and training both test patience. Discover how the same principles that drive success in strength & conditioning—consistency, progression, and discipline—also apply to long-term investing and navigating volatility.

High-Yield, Low Stress: How Coaches Are Thinking About Cash in 2026

A strength coach’s perspective on high-yield savings accounts in 2026—how coaches are thinking about cash, earning better APY, and applying performance principles to personal finances (not financial advice).

The ROI of a Strength Coach

What is the true ROI of a strength coach? While equipment, technology, and dashboards are important, coaches ultimately work with people. This article explores how effective coaching goes beyond data and performance metrics, focusing on decision-making, load management, and keeping athletes healthy, available, and performing at a high level.

Bake the Cake: Why Off-Season Training Should Push Limits, Not Protect Athletes

Why strength coaches must push max recoverable volume in the off-season to build resilient athletes who can handle in-season demands.

The Cupcake and Sprinkles of Training

Strength training is the foundation of performance. Learn how locomotion and movement drills act as the “sprinkles” that complete an effective S&C program.

5 Hard-Learned Lessons From My First Year as a GA in Strength & Conditioning

Learn why simple programming, fewer cues, soft skills, and adaptability separate average GAs from indispensable strength and conditioning coaches.

From Intern to Graduate Assistant: What Actually Earns You the GA Role

Learn how mentorship, sacrifice, time management, and daily professionalism can help you stand out and earn a GA role in strength and conditioning.

Do You REALLY Understand Conditioning Work?

In this article discover why you need to re-think how you improve your athletes conditioning level. We start by defining terms, and we end by giving you exact protocols to use.

How to Succeed as an Intern and Earn a Graduate Assistant Role in Strength & Conditioning

Learn how to choose the right internship, gain real coaching reps, avoid red flags, and position yourself to earn a GA role in strength and conditioning

ACL Rehab Roles - Who does what?

Physiotherapy restores healing after ACL surgery, but strength and performance training determine safe return to sport and reduced reinjury risk.

Strength You Can Grade | Standardization of Assessments

Whether you work in high school, private, college, or pro sport, this simple IMTP-based system allows you to track force production, show progress, and protect your athletes

Rethinking Landing Metrics: The Value of the First Peak

Why the first peak in landing force matters, how it reflects load acceptance, and when it’s worth addressing in athlete training.

A Smarter NFL Calendar: Reimagining the Season

This blog proposes a restructured NFL calendar that improves training ramps, increases player availability, and enhances the on-field product

Training in Motorsport Isn’t Just Driving a Car

Motorsport performance isn’t one-size-fits-all. From steering systems and G-forces to race length and pit crew roles, every series creates unique demands. Coaches who understand and apply those differences are the ones who truly add value — and protect their seat at the table.

Resume Template For ANY Strength Coach To Use

Watch this video and download this .docx file to get your resume branded with the organization you apply to work at.

Did You Know Strength Coaches Work In Motorsport?

Most coaches never think of motorsport as a career path. Yet behind every great driver, there’s a performance coach helping them stay sharp, strong, and hydrated through travel, jet lag, and G-forces.

At What Point Should You Stop Chasing Strength?

For athletes who are strong enough they need to focus on rate of force development. The question is what is "strong enough" for each sport depends. Here is what we found at Towson Football.

Why Louie Simmons Was Right About Training AGAIN

Find out how to apply WSB principles of lifting to jump training.

Building a Better Return-to-Play Process: Field-Based Testing Beyond the Weight Room

Most strength coaches can tell you whether an athlete’s squat or deadlift is back to baseline after injury. But that doesn’t mean they’re ready to compete. This article breaks down a practical, data-driven return-to-play approach that goes beyond the weight room — from acceleration and max velocity testing to change-of-direction metrics using timing systems — ensuring your athletes are truly game ready

Changes to Retirement Planning

Congress passed the SECURE 2.0 Act to expand retirement savings opportunities, reduce penalties, and make it easier for Americans to prepare for retirement. From higher catch-up contributions to student loan payment matching, here’s what you need to know.

Autoregulation in Long-Term Athletic Development: Meeting Athletes Where They Are

Discover how autoregulation, APRE, and the 8/5/3 Method help youth athletes train safely, adapt to growth, and thrive in long-term development.

What American Football S&C Coaches Can Learn From Rugby League

From personal experience with neurological injury to leading a top-flight rugby league side, this piece explores how structured contact and collision prep can protect players, sharpen performance, and preserve the physical edge that defines our sport.

Conditioning Tests That Actually Make Sense

Too many sport or strength coaches put athletes through poorly designed conditioning tests. This happens in the fraudulent wording of "toughness" when in reality true toughness is doing a test that mimics the demands of the sport.

Lacrosse Specific Conditioning Test (GARST)

Learn how the Tribe Test, a conditioning test first developed for American football, can be applied to lacrosse players. See how combining Tribe Test principles with your team’s performance data creates the most effective lacrosse conditioning test.

Avoiding Burn Out In Coaching

Read this blog to understand some simple ways to streamline your process at work so you can best serve the athletes you work with. These are lessons I learned from SCN founder KWF.

Real Talk on ACL Injuries in Female Athletes

I am all about feasible, pragmatic solutions. Let’s focus on those.

Get Your Athlete to Pass the Beep Test

Discover how a sophomore soccer player passed her beep test with a customized summer training program. Learn the exact assessments, sprint work, lifting cycles, and conditioning strategies—plus how to use tech to track progress.

What is an Athlete's TRUE 1RM on Pull Up?

Should Strength Coaches Take an Athlete's BW into Consideration for Pull Up 1 Rep Max? Find Out Why We Think The Answer is a Resounding YES!

Ditch The Boring Pre-Practice Warm Up and Do THIS Instead

Stop wasting time with boring warm-ups. Discover a better way to prep athletes before practice—used by real coaches and backed by results.

The Overlooked Muscle Group: Why Neck Training Matters for Every Athlete

Discover why neck strength is essential for athletes in all sports—from reducing concussion risk to enhancing performance and postural control.

Rethinking VBT: Peak vs. Average Velocity in Strength Lifts

Coach Joe Kenn brought up new views on VBT. Here’s why I’m now tracking peak velocity on all lifts—and how I’m using Vitruve to test it in training.

The Icing on the Cake| Having Fun with The Difference in Training

Learn how to use The Difference to add fun, creativity, and game-like movement to your training sessions without sacrificing performance outcomes.

The Business Side of Strength: A Playbook for Coaches Who Want More: Part Two

In Part Two, Graham Wilkerson lays out a clear roadmap for strength coaches to grow their personal brand, launch an online training program, and build a side income—all while staying true to their coaching roots

Strength in Numbers: The 8-Step Marketing System That Scaled His Gym to $1.5M

Graham Wilkerson shares the exact 8-step marketing system he uses to drive 100+ leads a month, build recurring revenue, and scale his performance business—without burning out.

How To Run A Weight Room

Logistical Considerations to Running a Smooth and Effective Training Session

The MOST Important Thing To Know When You Apply For A Job

Find out from 2 first hand experiences from Towson how people REALLY get hired

Why SpeedSig Will Be The Next Household Name in S&C

From team performance to return to play SpeedSig will help quantify on-field biomechanics.

From Rehab to Return | What Strength Coaches Must Understand About Working with Athletic Trainers

Learn how strength coaches and athletic trainers can better collaborate for athlete success. Key insights from my deep-dive conversation with my former Head Athletic Trainer at Towson University Kyle Cherry.

Why 90% of Staff Evaluations Fail (And What to Do About It)

Most strength and conditioning evaluations are vague, useless, and a waste of time. We built a real system that coaches can actually use — clear standards, honest feedback, and simple tools to help your staff grow. Grab the free SCN Staff Evaluation System and lead your team the way they deserve.

Start Saying THIS and Start Getting Better Force Plate Data

Too many S&C coaches get this terminology wrong. In an attempt to help the industry learn what you NEED to say when doing this movement.

Technique Still Matters

There is false information going around about using VBT and lifting technique, I am here to fix any misconceptions.

How Do You KNOW You Are Improving Athlete's Sprint Qualities

This data in addition to speed data (fly 10s) plus video analysis of the sprint would help him in his RTP meetings with ATC and other S&C staff. 

Best Tablet to use with Hawkin Dynamics Force Plates and TruStrength

Let me show you what tablet I use for my Hawkin Dynamics hardware to best allow data collection.

Baseball S&C: RJ Guyer Shares Fluid Periodization Model

VBT Debate | Education for a Seasoned Coach

I spoke with long time strength and conditioning coach who has worked with dozens of Olympic medalists about why she needs to use VBT. She had not thought about VBT this way until now.

Roth Conversions | Not Always a Great Idea

Strength and conditioning coaches live on a salary and fixed income. Find out how to best maximize your retirement benefits this way.

Maximize Your Department's Budget

I have seen it too many times where coaches spend all their money on one piece of technology and can't take care of other needs. DON'T be that coach. Learn from this coaches mistake.

Why straight line speed doesn’t matter in football

Agility > Speed? This week's Cheeky Mid Weeky podcast with Tony Villani reveals why agility, not just speed, is KEY in football. Learn how to train for game-changing agility, along with speed and strength & conditioning tips.

Part 3 Why Our Titles Need to Be Strength and Conditioning Coach

On Feb 13, 2025 the Buffalo Bills have parted ways with former S&C Coach Eric Ciano even though the Bills were the healthiest team in the NFL in 2024-2025. Sports are a business and you need to protect yourself.

Lessons Learned While I Got To Work With Marshal Yanda

During the NFL off-season Marshal would come back to Iowa and train with the football team. Sometimes he would come in and lift on his own and I got the privilege to train him 1 on 1. Learn some things I learned from him when I was with him.

10 Things Strength Coaches Need To Consider Before Getting Their PhD

Some coaches think getting their PhD will help them become better coaches. It all depends on what the PhD is in.

You Wouldn't Do This in Sports Why Do it With Your Money

Learn how to control your money so you can do great things with it and make positive change in the world!

Clusters for Olympic Weight Lifting

Using clusters for Olympic lifts is an EASY way to get better technique and more load on the bar.

The Reason Why Head Football S&C Coaches Should Make $1m

Head S&C Coaches in P4 Football SHOULD Make $1m. Especially when there are over 75 assistant position coaches who make over $1m. In this blog find out why head football S&C coaches are worth this price tag.

Metrics That Matter

There are so many choices for what data to use in S&C. Find out what this D1 basketball coach does.

LSU Football 2022 Site Visit

Follow me as I recap my trip to LSU Football back in the spring of 2022.

Tuura Hypertrophy Clusters + VBT = Potent Stimulus

When you put a Vitruve encoder on the bar during Jake Tuura's hypertrophy cluster protocol your legs will get so big you need new pants!

Using 1*20 Principles on The Field

Here is the best way to prepares your athletes that you never heard of.

How I added $50,000 and Real Estate Property

The use of self directed IRAs and my own research helped me with this.

The 4 P's of Your Job

In this blog we show strength and conditioning coaches how to look at their current work situation to highlight the positive!

Why The Acute Chronic Ratio Isn't This Simple

Strength and conditioning coaches and sport scientists have been taught that athletes are in danger of injury when the A:C ratio is greater than 1.30. This blog will show you why that simply is not the case.

Part 2 of Why Our Titles NEED to be Strength and Conditioning Coach

Strength and Conditioning Coaches NEED To Get Control of Their Finances

This tip can help S&C coaches get control of a HUGE chunk of money

How Long Should The Warm Up Be?

Are us strength and conditioning coaches spending too long getting ready to train and not enough time to train?

Why Our Titles NEED to be Strength and Conditioning Coach Pt 1

If we unite under one name as S&C coaches we will have more stable careers.

8 Lessons Learned from Living Overseas

Most strength and conditioning coaches know what moving far away for the next big job is like. However, very few coaches will have a chance to take that a step further. This article will hopefully help highlight the lessons I have learned as an American expat living overseas.

3rd Party Tested Supplements

Find out why S&C coaches NEED to ONLY use these brands of supplements.

Velocity Based Training (VBT) Made Simple

Hear coaches talking about VBT and wonder what it is? This article will break it all down for coaches so they can help their athletes get more powerful!

TCU Football Human Performance Site Visit

Wonder what one of the best Power 5 Football team's do to prepare for Saturday's games? Justin visited TCU Football Human Performance to get an inside look into what makes TCU Football different from the rest.

Never Gas Out: Aerobic Models For TSAC

Aerobic conditioning models have been in athletics for an incredibly long time. However, CrossFit has given some of these models great press over the last decade or so.

Analyzing the Morphocycle Design

Using the morphocycle design is the best way to program the various stressors athletes encounter while playing sport.

Unlocking Potential | LTAD in Action

With a principles based long term athletic development framework integrated into physical education and athletics we allow students to develop at their own pace, with the aim of graduating young people who have the skills to lead healthy, active, and high performing lives. 

Contact Prep 101 Guide For All Coaches

Strength Coach Network Football Conditioning Test

Are you using the 12 reps of :05/:25 from KWF and co - try these spin offs as well.

The Solution to Peak Performance For Athletes

Find out how to enhance athletes strength, speed, and power with something they already do!

How I Got Hawkin Dynamics With No Cost to The Athletic Department

Find out how I was able to get Hawkin Dynamics force plates in a Division 1 weight room at ZERO cost to any team or department in athletics.

Elite Gains: DUP & Triphasic For The Tactical Athlete

Help the tactical community by training this way. These athletes need your best effort. Learn how to prepare them for combat missions.

Speed Work Made Simple

Simple, actionable steps to make your athletes faster.

Get Catapult GPS With No Money

Help the athletes you work with by getting the the technology they deserve - even if you don't have the budget for it...yet

How to survive your internship with no income

Find out how to afford unpaid internships to be able to jump start your career in strength and conditioning.

Prilepin's Table - A Starting Point But Not Gospel

Learn how to use Prilepin's table when programming for team sport athletes.

How to work with dining halls to get a training table meal

Learn how to help feed your athletes a meal together once per day, using their dining hall meal swipes.

Your Mission Statement Is Terrible

Too many organziations have a vision and mission statement that are too long and no one can remember them. Without clarity in an organization employees simple work a job they don't have passion for. But, if you can provide clarity as to what they are doing, why they do it, and how to do it - you can help them. Which in tern helps your customers. Which can help make the world a better place.

As A Department Head Don’t Forget This

Reminders for those coaches who have the dual roles as assistant AD and head S&C.

Lessons From An Undefeated Regular Season

Looking back on the 2015 University of Iowa football team which won every game that regular season.

Transfer of Training in Sport

Leadership Through Sports and Military

Trust is Key in Coaching

Can you Answer the Hardest Interview Question?

Is Dr.Joel Seedman's "Red Pill Experiment" a Waste of Time?

How to Write an Interview Winning Cover Letter and Resume

Coaching in the NFL

Who is the Freakiest Athlete you have Ever Coached

Westside Barbell is not the Best for Athletes

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How to Open a Private Gym with Little-To-No-Money

Non Olympic Jump Variations for Coaches in a Hurry

Keeping Plan B as close to Plan A with Injured Athletes

Sprint Work Made Simple - Feed the Cats

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Sprinting Technique of Elite Athletes: How to Reach it in Team Setting

5 Hours Sleep isn't Enough

Job Applications 101: Part 2

Best and Worst Internship Experiences

Job Applications 101: Part 1

What is High Performance in Sports?

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Could you Train 250 Athletes in 90 Minutes with only This?!

Failure is your Key to Success

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Free Agency in College Sports: The Impact of NIL

S&C in the Tactical Sector - The Good, The Bad and the Unknown

What America Doesn't Tell you About the Military

How I Went from $0 to $200.000 in 8 years

Don't Miss the KEY Areas When Training your Athletes

The System is Broken

Let's Talk About Money

The BEST Way to Train Strength and Power

Specialists Are People Too

Managing Your Quaterbacks Ready for Camp

How to knock your Interview out of the Park

This Shouldn't be Just a Tick Box Exercise

Fixing the System

How to Bring the Best Through your interview Process

How Werner Gunthor Trained to Win 3 World Championships

Olympic Lifting and 1x20 Aren't philosophies

Act as If you Are in the Job you Want, Not the One you Have

How to Learn and Grow: Off the Floor

That Meeting Should Have Been an Email

Will it Make the Boat go Faster

The Football Test you Need

The Power Phase for Field Sport Athletes

How to Learn and Grow: On the Floor

Preparing for your Internship

A Novel Approach to Coaching the Olympic Lifts

Creating a High-Performance Life with Erik Korem PhD

Coaching During the Pandemic

What to Expect After Working in S&C for 10 Years

Oscillatory Training Explored

Aligning you Staff

If you Didn't Think About Quitting, Were you Even an Intern?

Business Lessons from Strength Coach Network's Founder

Real World Solutions to Train Amateur Athletes like the Pros

Conflicts of Interest at the Heart of S&C

Top 9 Embarrasing Moments in My Career