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23 Ways Coaches Use TeamBuildr Strength

Short accounts from high school, college and private coaches of how they actually run TeamBuildr: grading PE students, individual calendars for supplementary work, wellness tracking, changing workouts remotely, 1RM percentages and custom branding. A quick way to see the software working in someone else's weight room.

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5 Potent Productivity Apps

The apps and tools that keep a coach's week in order, split between work (Slack, Asana, Clockify, Grammarly, Freedom) and life (Headspace, Strava, Canva, Mint, an interval timer). Written in 2020, when most staffs were suddenly working from home.

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51 Ways to Motivate Your Athletes

Fifty-one motivation tactics sent in by working strength coaches, each credited to the coach and school that uses it. Point systems, attendance T-shirts, a Strength GPA, Lifter of the Month, team carries and end-of-session competitions, mostly from high school and college weight rooms.

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6 Hacks to Save Money in the Weight Room

Six coaches, from a high school up to the Arizona Diamondbacks, on equipping a weight room without the budget. Lifting platforms built from Home Depot lumber, homemade sandbags and slide boards, buying used from local gyms, working with vendors and trading old racks for bumper plates.

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6 Rondos You Should Be Doing

Six rondo variations for soccer, from a 5 v 2 in a ten-yard square up to 8 v 8 with neutrals, each with grid size, numbers and difficulty. Three pages you can take straight onto the training field.

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7 Keys to Sport & Strength Coach Collaboration

Seven working habits for sport coaches and strength coaches who share the same athletes: agreeing on values, swapping annual plans, being open about practice structure, holding one standard, meeting on a schedule and deciding who delivers which message. Short, and worth handing to your head coach.

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9 Things Coaches Should Do Every Day

Lee Weber of Rose Hill High School on nine things he builds into every session, from varied warm-ups and posterior chain work to mobility and team challenges. Written during COVID, so each comes with an at-home version.

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A Beginner's Guide to Navigating Force Plate Technology

Learn the best ways to approach force plate technology and practical ways to use it.

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A Strength Coach's Guide to Side Hustles

How to build income outside your job without torching it. Covers building a brand, forming an LLC, getting insured, finding leads, and the realities of consulting, speaking and writing, with numbers from coaches doing it.

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A Strength Coach’s Guide to Winning Over the Athletic Director

Getting an athletic director to say yes. How to frame what you do in the language administrators use, what they are actually weighing, and how to build the case before you need the budget.

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A Systems-Based Approach to Using TeamBuildr

Vince Lucente on running a college program as a system rather than a stack of workouts. Daily wellness reports, post-practice sRPE, jump testing shared with sports medicine, training lanes and individual calendars, set up in TeamBuildr. Aimed at smaller departments where one staff covers many sports.

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Accommodating NCAA's Guidelines on Prevention of Catastrophic Death and Injury via Technology

What the NCAA's 2019 recommendations on catastrophic injury and death mean on the floor: transition periods, acclimatization and certified staff in all three divisions. Plus how documented training can stand as your record. For college strength and sports medicine staff.

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Advanced Attendance Report

Attendance tracking for PE and weights classes that goes past a headcount. Copy the template and it totals participation per student over any window, ready to drop into a grade or a report to an administrator.

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AI For Gym Owners

The AI For Gym Owners course is designed to help gym owners to understand how they can implement AI into every facet of their business.

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APRE Guide: Using APRE in TeamBuildr

How to set up and run APRE in TeamBuildr: linking working sets to a 1RM, letting the max update itself from performance, making a session live and marking AMAP sets. Step by step, with the tablet view and printable PDF workout cards covered at the end.

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Athlete Wellness & Body Report

Track daily wellness check-ins and body composition in one sheet. Copy the template and follow the walkthrough to connect your athlete responses, then use the report to spot who is trending the wrong way before it costs you a session.

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Autoregulation in Long-Term Athletic Development

Phil Reichoff of Cape Henry Collegiate on autoregulation for a big, mixed-ability school program. Why fixed sets and percentages break down while teenagers are still growing, how he builds on APRE and 5/3/1, and how beginner, intermediate and advanced levels stand in for writing a thousand individual programs.

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Behavior Modification in Coaching

Josh Bullock, a head strength coach at four NCAA schools and with the U.S. Ski Team, on the science of changing athlete behavior. Then the practical side: habit tracking versus wellness monitoring, and how he used both in TeamBuildr.