Athlete Profiling: The Interview as Your First Screening Tool
Before you run a single test or put a bar on someone's back, you need to ask the right questions. The interview is where real screening starts — and most coaches skip it entirely.
Managing Peak Demands and Rehabilitation in Football – Part 3: Programing Return to Sport Process After the ACL Injury
The final week before a player returns to team training is one of the most underestimated phases of the whole rehab process. Marko Matušinskij breaks down how to design it — from session structure and GPS targets to p…
Knee Screening: Integrating Performance Training with Clinical Insight
Strong knees still fail. Pain-free knees still tear. Cleared athletes still get injured. Why? Because structural integrity isn't functional safety. This introduction reveals what traditional knee screening misses - and w…
Endurance Training In Football
Players fade at 70 minutes and the usual fix is more running. If you don't understand how football's energy systems actually interact, you're building fitness that disappears when it matters most.
Bridging AI and Sports Science: How Model Context Protocols (MCPs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG ) Systems Can Personalize Training
What if your chatbot could read live athlete data and instantly turn it into evidence-based training recommendations? This article shows how MCP and RAG make that possible—and why it matters for modern coaching.
Special Considerations in Systemizing and Planning the Warm-Up
Your athletes spend over 56 hours per year warming up. Stop treating this time as a monotonous box-ticking exercise and learn how to transform warm-ups into powerful developmental opportunities tailored to your sport and…
A Comprehensive Framework for Academy Football Development: Introducing the Long-Term Athletic Development Resource
Elite academies don't leave development to chance—they follow systematic, evidence-based frameworks aligned with biological readiness. Get the complete LTAD resource with training progressions, monitoring protocols, an…
In-Season Sport Preparation Presentation
Most performance gains aren’t won in the weight room, but on the practice field. This presentation breaks down the principles behind effective in-season sport preparation and smarter practice planning.
Tactical Periodization: Aligning Tactics, Fitness, and Decision-Making
Football isn’t played in pieces, yet most training still is. This article and video explore Tactical Periodization and the weekly rhythm that aligns tactics, fitness, and decision-making into one coherent game model.
Navigating Acting Inside the System
You can understand complexity, quote the right thinkers, and still coach like everything is predictable. This article explores why that happens, how smart coaches fall into the same thinking traps, and what it really mea…
