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Guides & eBooks
Long-form guides and eBooks. Every one lists its chapters, so you can see what's inside before you download it.
PDF · 10 pages
Free · sign up23 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.
PDF · 9 pages
Free · sign up5 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.
PDF · 17 pages
Free · sign up51 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.
PDF · 9 pages
Free · sign up6 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.
PDF · 3 pages
Free · sign up6 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.
PDF · 4 pages
Free7 Athletic Directors Discuss Their Strength Programs
Seven athletic directors on what they look for in a strength program, how they judge whether it is working, and what makes them fund one over another. Useful before your next budget conversation.
PDF · 4 pages
Free · sign up7 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.
PDF · 21 pages
Free · sign up9 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.
PDF · 26 pages
Free · sign upA 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.
PDF · 7 pages
Free · sign upA 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.
PDF · 20 pages
Free · sign upA 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.
PDF · 12 pages
Free · sign upAccommodating 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.
PDF · 13 pages
Free · sign upAPRE 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.
Be An 11: Code of Ethics
The Be An 11 team ethics policy template — the rules, the expectations, and the consequences, ready to adopt for any program building character.
Be An 11: Integration Guidelines
How to keep Be An 11 alive after the seminar — the quote of the day, a student council, and the habits that keep the eleven concepts in the building.
BFS 25 Agility Drills
Twenty-five cone and line agility drills for every athlete, with diagrams — measurable drills built for record keeping, straight from the BFS Total Program.
BFS Conditioning Program
Week-by-week BFS running conditioning: 800m and 400m interval sets with goal times and rest scaled to big, medium, and small athletes.
BFS Conditioning Program & Endurance Test
The full Total Program Speed and Conditioning booklet: the Dot Drill warm-up, the speed and conditioning programs, and the BFS endurance test in one PDF.