Can Your One-Rep Max Really Predict Your Jumping and Sprinting Ability?
"Just get stronger." These words are repeated over and over by many strength and conditioning coaches, leading athletes to believe strength is the ultimate key to enhancing athletic performance. And [...]
Pre-Workout Static Stretching Can Sabotage Your Strength and Muscle Gains
Stretching can play an important role in athletic development. Maintaining normal, controlled range of motion is essential to feeling healthy, performing well and avoiding injury. We all know it should [...]
A More Effective Way to Take Creatine
Creatine monohydrate has long been used by athletes for greater muscle gain and energy during workouts. Not many question its effectiveness, as there is plenty of research backing creatine as [...]
Jump Higher With These 10 Tips You’ve Never Tried Before
For some athletes, vertical jump height is a major pain point. Everyone wants to jump higher, and when no one's proud of a weak vert. Those with the right DNA [...]
The Simple Diet Change Found to Help Athletes Jump Higher and Sprint Faster
Many athletes seek an edge to increase their vertical jump. Whether it’s a special supplement, lengthy stretching routines, Vertimax workouts, etc.—we're all after quick results. Unfortunately, explosive ability just doesn’t [...]
Research Reveals Unilateral Exercises Significantly Strengthen Both Halves of the Body
Unilateral exercises are becoming increasingly popular in sports performance training and for good reason. Unilateral exercises, meaning exercises that focus on one arm or one leg at a time, possess [...]