Category Archives: Training

How to Increase Your Speed: The Basics

Speed is king. Speed is what everyone compares each other with to determine the better athlete in most cases. Football coaches and fans love looking at 40yd dash times or, if you’re a track & field fan, watching Usain Bolt win the 100 and 200 meters. Speed is everything in sports and, therefore, many coachesContinue reading “How to Increase Your Speed: The Basics”

Part II: What Parents can do at home to promote proper training, nutrition, and sleep for their children

If you haven’t read Part I of this series, I’d recommend you read that before continuing on to this. In part I, I talked about how parents can help their child’s performance and health through promoting sleep. Using the SRA (Stimulus, Recovery, Adaption) curve, I showed how sleep and recovery fit into a proper trainingContinue reading “Part II: What Parents can do at home to promote proper training, nutrition, and sleep for their children”

Part 1: What Parents can do at home to promote proper training, nutrition, and sleep for their children

From youth through college athletics, your child lives and breathes sports. Countless hours of practices, meetings, and competitions keeps you and your child busy day-in and day-out. Like any parent, you want to support your children in any way you can to help them succeed in athletics. One of the newest trends we are seeingContinue reading “Part 1: What Parents can do at home to promote proper training, nutrition, and sleep for their children”

Rethinking Conditioning: 110-Yard Sprints and “Gassers”

When anyone uses “Mental toughness” as their reasoning for doing a certain conditioning exercise, I feel myself die a little inside. Sometimes the intentions are good, but they are missing the ballpark when it comes to properly training their athletes. I cannot think of time when an athlete was excited to be doing 110-yard fullContinue reading “Rethinking Conditioning: 110-Yard Sprints and “Gassers””

Welcome to my site!

Ben Charles M.S., CSCS, USAW 7/13/2020 Welcome! I created this site because I saw a need for a online coaching platform for both athletes and the general public because of COVID-19. If you’re an athlete, there is uncertainty about how schools and colleges will handle education in a safe and effective way. This may limitContinue reading “Welcome to my site!”