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Vibration Technology in the Weight Room: What Actually Works
Percussion devices, vibrating rollers, whole-body platforms, vibrating compression boots — the market is enormous and the claims are bigger. Trace Pate on what the research supports and what coaches should actually buy.
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How to Motivate High School Athletes (A Hummer Helped)
Trace Pate on the specific, sometimes unconventional things he’s done to light a fire under high school athletes — from pulling a Hummer up a hill at Farragut to giant hammers and data boards at CAK.
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The Training Most Coaches Skip
You can program the perfect strength block and still undermine everything with one oversight. After 30 years of coaching, Trace Pate on why recovery isn’t what happens between workouts — it is the workout.
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