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Steve Myrland

What’s in a word: why we need to think beyond flexibility and mobility

January 20, 2021/by Steve Myrland

“Strength and conditioning”—the collective sobriquet most often assigned to the profession of training athletes to soar toward the upper limits of their potential—is an amalgam of two tremendously elastic and ill-defined words. They are among many terms in the coaching lexicon that are, most often, used without much concern for their precise meaning.


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Tags: Definitions, Featured, Flexibility, General Training, Mobility
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Steve Myrland has worked as an athletic development coach at the youth, collegiate, and professional levels. He also a GAIN faculty member and was formerly the strength and conditioning coach at the NHL’s San Jose Sharks and the University of Wisconsin.

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