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High school strength programs fail athletes not because coaches do not care. Most coaches care a lot. They fail because the structure, the priorities, and the measures of success are wrong from the start. Understanding why they fail is the first step toward finding something that actually works. They Prioritize Maxes Over Development One rep max testing on the bench press and squat is the measuring stick in most high school programs. That incentivizes athletes to chase number

Nobody talks about foot strength. Athletes spend years developing their quads, hamstrings, and glutes, and completely ignore the structure that is in contact with the ground on every single rep, every single sprint, every single jump. Your foot is the last point of force transfer between your body and the ground. If it is weak, force leaks. If it cannot stiffen at the right moment, power that your hips and legs generated gets absorbed instead of expressed. What a Weak Foot Lo

Power cleans and snatches look incredible. They are athletic, explosive, technically demanding. Coaches love programming them because they signal seriousness. Athletes love doing them because they feel powerful. The truth is more complicated. Olympic lifts have real value. They also get misused more than almost any other tool in athlete training. What They Actually Develop Olympic lifts train rate of force development. How quickly you can express power. That is genuinely usef

This is probably the most important thing a high school athlete can understand about their training. Speed training and conditioning are not the same thing. They do not even work the same energy system. Running them together kills the results of both. Most programs mix them because it looks productive. You are always moving, always working, always tired. Tired is not fast. How Speed Works True speed development uses your phosphocreatine energy system. That system is powerful

This is one of the most common questions we get at Güd and the answer is less complicated than the internet makes it seem. The right number of days depends on your age, your training age, your sport schedule, and what you are trying to accomplish. There are some clear guidelines that work for most athletes. The Short Answer Most high school athletes should be lifting three to four days per week during the offseason. Two to three days during the season. That range covers the m

Bobsled is a sport most people have seen once in the Olympics and never thought about again. That is a mistake if you care about acceleration. Bobsled push athletes are some of the best pure accelerators in the world. The sport demands it. You have about fifty meters to push a four hundred pound sled as fast as humanly possible and then hold on. The standards are brutal and the margin between making a team and going home is measured in hundredths of a second. What the Sport D

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