Does Balance Training Improve Speed?
In the world of sports, speed is king. Athletes, parents, coaches, and trainers always ask me if different forms of balance training create noticeable improvements in running speed. And rightfully [...]
Balance Training and the Youth Athlete
I often tell parents that strength and conditioning are for people of all ages. It just looks different for kids and the elderly, the athlete and non-athletes. Parents are often [...]
Why Your Balance Training Isn’t Making You a Better Athlete (And What to Do Instead)
For many athletes, balance training means BOSU balls, stability balls and a variety of awkward-looking tasks performed on wobbly implements. However, the transferability of this type of training to sport [...]
Basketball Balance Training For Court Performance and Injury Prevention
Good balance is essential to success on the basketball court. As a basketball athlete, you've chosen a sport that requires an abundance of unbalanced movements—like perimeter defense, contested jump shots [...]
Improve Athleticism With Donald Brown's Indo Board Balance Training
No matter how strong or fast you are, there's always room for improvement. Identify your weaknesses and combat them to become the best athlete you can be—just like NFL running [...]
Easy Ways to Work Balance Training Into Your Workout Program
A typical workout includes a dynamic warm-up, speed training, agility and quickness drills, plyometrics, weight and resistance training, core development, recovery and cool down. But the workout is not complete [...]
Balance Training With Philip Rivers
San Diego Chargers QB Philip Rivers may be missing his main receiver targets, but Denver defenders still had big bulls-eyes on their backs last night. Rivers fired strikes all over [...]
Kevin Durant's Balance Training
Despite being selected second overall in the 2007 NBA Draft, Kevin Durant knew he had plenty of room to improve. Early into his professional career, Kevin committed himself to adding [...]
4 Training Tips to Improve Balance and Coordination
Your proprioception, or sense of physical self, is what allows you to move naturally throughout the world, go through motions, or participate in...
Meet the First Performance Coach to Get His Own Signature Training Shoe, Thanks to New Balance
He just joined the ranks of LeBron James, Shaquille O’Neal and Michael Jordan, but you wouldn’t know it by talking to him. With the unveiling of the New Balance Minimus [...]
