Aaron Schwenzfeier's Blog

As a follow-up to the post I wrote on Saturday (Technology AND Coaching (not VS)), I am pleased to share a guest post on the topic of technology and coaching from Carl Valle. It's my opinion that Carl is one of the best critical thinkers in track and...

How Florida State Hacked Football's Fitness Code
I saw this article shared a few times over social media in the last couple days (I really should stay away from the social media). It's an interesting article for sure and I believe Florida State, among others, are likely doing great things with the...

"All babies are born with a branch-holding reflex; in fact, infants are pound-for-pound incredibly strong, and are capable of holding themselves suspended by grasping a finger or bar." -Emma Pennock
We are primates, and our skeletal structure maintains remnants of times past when we were tree-dwellers, specifically the shoulder and wrist structure with it's fantastic mobility, and the latissimus dorsi muscle that spans from the shoulder down to...

I recently posted this photo on Instagram and began to discuss some of the great things about hill sprinting and using hills for training purposes.
cute, huh?!
But as I tend to do while coach thinking, I added cautions to all the great possibilities that sprinting and training on hills presents, knowing full well the athletic development profession is full of hooligans inbreeding in an absolute universe - it...