Injury
What To Do When Your Kid Gets Hurt
Bumps and bruises are inevitable. How parents react is key. If you’re signing your child up for sports for the first time, there’s something you should know: There will be [...]
Should Kids Be Lifting Weights?
5 Major Weight Training Questions AnsweredWhen should my kid start training? No matter what the child's age the answer should be right now. There is more...
How to Create a Strength and Conditioning Program for Youth Athletes
In my article last month for STACK titled, How Old Does Your Child Need to be to Start Working Out?, I gave the age I felt a youth athlete could start a...
The 5 Most Common Weak Spots in Athletes (and How to Fix Them)
You already spend lots of time training the obvious muscles. You know, the ones that look good in the mirror. But in the process, you might be missing the weak [...]
How an Injured Athlete Can Still Manage the College Recruiting Process Successfully
Injury is an inherent part of any athletic endeavor and no one understands this better than college coaches. There are many prospects and families who...
Injured, or Just Temporarily Sore
There is a difference between playing when you are injured and playing when you are sore. Both may be painful, but playing with an injury is likely to make that [...]
How To Help Your Athlete Deal with a Sports Injury
Kids will be kids and get injured in their sport. It is inevitable. Now enters a different phase or part of the sport rarely seen and experienced as a child [...]
The Tale of Two Injured Alabama Players Taking the Field in the National Championship
Alongside winning his seventh National Championship last night, Alabama Head Coach Nick Saban echoed his primary goal for this unprecedented season. "I wanted to win this for our players," Saban [...]
Train Harder With Hill Sprints
Walter Payton and Jerry Rice had a training regimen in common: hill sprints. A study by Texas Tech University found that athletes who wore weighted...
How To Do The Dead Bug
The Exercise The Dead Bug is a core exercise that can be used in place of Crunches. It develops the entire front side of the core, whereas Crunches only work [...]