Finding Identity After Sport - Forever An Athlete

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Finding Identity After Sport - Forever An Athlete

In the realm of athletics, the pursuit of excellence is a never-ending odyssey characterized by passion, commitment, and achievements. For student-athletes, the collegiate and high school experience is intricately tied to the identity of being an athlete. But what emerges when the final whistle blows and the final chapter of your competitive career concludes? This blog sheds light on the intimate and complex theme of identity in sports, illuminating the mental health hurdles that often confront retired student-athletes.

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The Foundation of Great Athletes—and People—Grit, Patience, and Consistency

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One of the biggest benefits of strength training is hard to measure and cannot always be seen—character development. Grit, patience, and consistency are valuable truths that can be instilled through training. Those qualities will resonate with you throughout your career as an athlete, but more importantly, as a betterment to your character throughout different chapters of your life.

If you haven’t seen the benefits of strength training yet, just wait, they will come. And they will be worth it.

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Introducing the New Training Editor

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Introducing the New Training Editor

We’re always looking for ways to provide the Volt Family with more opportunities to optimize your training for your unique environment. We understand that sometimes you might need to shorten a training session, to make it work for your team’s schedule. Or maybe you’d like to add an additional mobility-focused session at the end of the training week, to help facilitate active recovery. We hear you—and our new training editor is here to help you make Volt your own like never before.

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Your Checklist for Coaching a Safe and Efficient Weight Room

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The weight room is a chaotic place. For strength coaches, trainers, sport coaches, PE teachers, and anyone overseeing a training session, a systems-based approach helps to make order of weight-room chaos. Volt’s Bo Pearson, CSCS-certified strength coach, created a Weight Room Checklist to help organize the basic steps that coaches and athletes should complete each training session.

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4 Dimensions of Athletic Development, Part 2: Performance

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4 Dimensions of Athletic Development, Part 2: Performance

If athletes are high-performance sports cars, then strength coaches are the mechanics: the weight room is our garage, and the practice court is our test track. And just as sports cars need test runs and consistent evaluation to optimize performance, so too do our student athletes. In this second article in a 4-part series on athletic development, Clemson strength coach Kaitlyn Cunningham shares how she tests and evaluates athlete performance—along with practical applications for using that data to construct effective training.

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Sets, Reps, and Negligence: How to Be a Safe and Effective High School Strength Coach, Part 1

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Sets, Reps, and Negligence: How to Be a Safe and Effective High School Strength Coach, Part 1

Mike Nitka is the kind of coach every parent dreams their kid will have. After spending 35 years at Muskego High School, Coach Nitka now spends his "retirement" consulting on the Volt Advisory Board and educating young strength coaches on how to run safe and effective high school weight rooms. We're thrilled to feature his exclusive series on safety in the weight room - and what coaches can do to protect themselves (and their athletes) from potential harm.

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