Dave Schall, MS, CSCS

     I have been a coach for 17 years now. Before I was a high school strength and conditioning coach, I was a high school soccer coach. During the years I coached soccer, I taught in a classroom for my "day job" and coached soccer after school. Now, my day job is the same as my after school coaching role in that I teach high school S/C classes during the day and run after school and summer S/C programs. In short, being a high school S/C coach is all I do now.

     When I began both…

  Bring your hand held camera from home, swap out the "family" memory card and replace it with a "work only" memory card that you keep in your desk. From there you can film your athletes' lifting technique and play it back immediately for them to see before the next set. It can be done quick, efficient, and private while also speeding up the learning process. I used it today for the first time in the High School  S/C classes I teach. It also helps me as the S/C coach because I can detect…

As a high school strength coach, there are three large variables that dictate everything I do:

1. the wide range in ability levels of the kids I work with

2. the wide range in the number, per group, of the kids I work with

3. time

I want to use the third variable as the premis for this blog post. Our school's S/C program is implemented through classes we offer in our PE department, after school training, and a summer program. All 3 arms, require the sessions to be…

From time to time, parents and/or kids at my school will opt to see a personal trainer instead of participate in our school's strength & conditioning program. We know this is a decision made at all levels of scholastic sponsored and even professional level sports. There are a lot of reasons athletes and/or their parents choose to go outside of the particular organization they are affiliated with: the most popular probably being that said parents and/or athletes think an outside source…