
Training Camp: What Really Happens Behind the Gates
Testing, teaching, roster battles and recovery weeks — the unglamorous machinery that decides who makes the team.
What elite sessions actually contain: periodization blocks, technical drills, strength work, weekly load and the recovery a program has to build around.

Testing, teaching, roster battles and recovery weeks — the unglamorous machinery that decides who makes the team.

The mistakes that stall new lifters aren't exotic. They're the obvious ones, repeated weekly.

Zone training and base building sound like jargon. The ideas underneath them are simple, and they work.

A 12-year-old skateboarder, an 11-year-old esports player, and a 13-year-old swimmer with three golds — the 'proving ground' framing deserves a second look.

The rulebook draws a hard line between voluntary offseason work and one mandatory minicamp week — but the players who can afford to test that line aren't the ones the rule was written to protect.

Ankle range, hip function and tissue care are why today's veterans age like wine while 1980s big men aged like milk.