Each year in early August, myself and SportStars Sac-Joaquin content coordinator, Jim McCue, sit down and begin to plan out our football coverage — and not just for the Preview, but for the season as a whole, too. Often times we throw out questions to one another... Read more
POWERED BY TRUCKS: Fail Safe
CalHiSports Insights August 14, 2015 0
Performing a lift to the point of failure can be a good thing — if you know when you’re failing. Powered By Trucks : Anthony Trucks There are so many ways to train, and one of the most underused forms is failure sets. Failure sets are... Read more
TRAINING TIME: Poor Condition
CalHiSports Insights August 14, 2015 0
Football coaches have plenty to focus on in practice, and proper conditioning can get lost in the shuffle Training Time: Tim Rudd Football season is right around the corner and that means summer football camp is going strong. So here are three of the most common... Read more
NUTRITION: Fueling For Success
CalHiSports Insights August 14, 2015 0
Your nutrition habits before practice are just as vital as they are before a game. Eating well before practice is just as important as eating well before competition. If you are well fueled, you’ll be better able to train hard, which means that you’ll have an edge over... Read more
FIRST PITCH: How We Spent Summer Vacation
CalHiSports Insights August 14, 2015 0
By the time this issue hits the web, and then the streets, there will already be some NorCal school districts who have begun their academic year. So long, Summer. We hardly knew ye. Now, we could use this entire column to a Grandpa Simpson-like rant on how... Read more
Sports Politics: Team Positions in Football
CalHiSports InsightsFootballHigh School Football August 14, 2015 0
Team Positions- The football position you want to play may not always be the one that best helps the team. In sports politics you may hear, ” I’ve always been bigger than the other kids, so whenever we play football, I’m stuck blocking. I can throw the... Read more
There’s a fine line between condition training and speed training. And this requires proper recovery. If athletes are going to increase their speed, quickness and agility they must train at high speeds. Many times coaches keep the drills too long and the rest too short. This simply becomes a conditioning... Read more
POWERED BY TRUCKS: Pay Attention to Pain
CalHiSports Insights April 2, 2015 0
Pushing through discomfort isn’t always a sign of strength; it’s often an avenue to injury POWERED BY TRUCKS: Anthony Trucks “It’s nothing, I can handle it. I’ll just push through the pain” Worse words have never been uttered when in my presence at the gym. I... Read more
INJURY AVOIDANCE: Smart Swimmin’
CalHiSports Insights April 2, 2015 0
Don’t let “Swimmer’s Shoulder” drag you under this season INJURY AVOIDANCE : Hunter Greene, M.D. As swim season hits full stride and swimmers start ratcheting up their training, we’re going to talk about shoulder problems. Poor stroke mechanics, training errors, overuse and muscular imbalances are some of the... Read more
FIRST PITCH: OVERwhelmingly Conflicted
CalHiSports Insights April 2, 2015 0
Regular readers of this column probably know our stance on the way the California Interscholastic Federation employs its Open Division within the state basketball championships. It’s never quite won us over. We’ve always understood the logic behind it — separate the most elite programs from the Division I-V... Read more
BEHIND THE CLIPBOARD: Open For Debate
CalHiSports Insights April 2, 2015 0
It’s just not fair. I go to Miramonte, and our girls won the NCS title and beat Bishop O’Dowd. But because O’Dowd lost, they got to play in Division III and won a state championship. We had to play in the Open Division and got beat in the... Read more
FIRST PITCH: Camps, camps and more camps!
CalHiSports Insights March 30, 2015 0
Most you are likely familiar with the phrase “All the news that fits.” Well, if you’re asking us, it’s “All the camps that fit.” That’s how we’ve approached each one of our annual Camps & Clinics Guide. This is our fifth, and just as I wrote in... Read more
