Prehab
Decoding Your Body Signals: Fast Track to Recovery and Prevention
Workouts aren't supposed to be easy. As an athlete, you push yourself way past your comfort zone. You train through sore muscles, even when you don't feel like it, just [...]
4 Ways to Take Care of Your Throwing Arm
Over the course of a baseball season, a player's throwing arm is placed under a tremendous amount of stress. Approximately 70 percent of high school baseball players experience some form [...]
How to Prevent an Achilles Injury
Purple and Gold nation is in a state of mourning. Kobe Bryant fueled a late-season run to get the Lakers into the playoffs, but the megastar tore his Achilles tendon [...]
Reduce Your ACL Injury Risk
No injury is 100% preventable, especially an ACL injury. It doesn't matter how safely you train or how well you follow recovery guidelines. A simple misstep on a jump or [...]
How to Warm Up Your Rotator Cuff Muscles
If you play a sport like baseball or tennis, where you throw or swing with your arm overhead, you must attend to your shoulder health. If you fail to take [...]
Injury Prevention Strategies for the Weekend Warrior
All praise weekend warriors. They seem like modern heroes. In reality, a "weekend warrior" is someone who attempts to cram in a week's worth of exercise into a 2-day weekend. [...]
3 Exercises for Soccer Injury Prevention
Playing and practicing soccer skills for several seasons may do wonders for your game, but it also takes a toll on your body. Repeating the same movement patterns over long [...]
Strength Training for Beginners to Prevent Basketball Injuries
Strengthening your full body is the key in guarding against the most common basketball injuries. Add the following exercises to your training program today. Neck Sets/Reps: 3-5x6-second holds (10 seconds [...]
Basics of Shoulder Injury Prevention and Rehab
The shoulder is the most mobile, yet most vulnerable joint in the body. It relies on muscles and connective tissue for support in order to achieve a large range of [...]
Basketball Players: Bulletproof Your Knees and Ankles
For basketball players, it's impossible to completely eliminate the risk of an ankle or knee injury. However, you can reduce your risk by: Strengthening the ligaments around your joints Improving [...]