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14 Bodyweight Exercises You Can Do With a Basketball
Basketball is a game of finesse, and technical skills such as dribbling, shooting and hand-eye coordination are essential to playing the sport. But basketball also requires a great deal of [...]
5 Simple Substitutions to Improve Your Baseball Workout Program
Every baseball player wants their training to pay off on the field. Although most players will get some benefit out of following a general athlete program they downloaded from the [...]
How Eccentrics and Isometrics Can Produce Results Your Entire Training Career
Most athletes never give a second thought to training tempo. They think about things like load and reps and maybe even exercise selection, but rarely about the speed at which [...]
How an Unusual Training Tool Called the ‘Viking Attachment’ Changed My Workouts
The Landmine has become a popular way to help athletes train a variety of fundamental movements. With a barbell and a landmine attachment, you can perform a huge array of [...]
3 Warm-Ups Moves for Your Best Squat Day Ever
A great squat day starts with a good warm-up. In the below video, Dr. Ryan Summers, physical therapist and co-owner of Pure Physio (Strongsville, Ohio), outlines his favorite drills to [...]
4 Relative Strength Standards to Improve Sprint Speed
Let’s face it: if you want to be fast, you need to sprint fast—and sprint fast often. Speed is a skill after all, and like any other skill, improvement is [...]
2 Fixes for Tight Hips You’ve Never Tried Before
Nowadays, just about everyone feels their hips are too tight. It’s a complaint Ryan Summers and Matt Stevens, physical therapists and co-owners of Pure Physio (Strongsville, Ohio), hear all the [...]
Why More Athletes Should Use Cyclist Squats
When it comes to total lower-body development, Squats are king. When it comes to specifically engaging the inner most portion of the quadriceps, or the “Tear Drop” muscle known as [...]
The Unconventional Squat Variation That Powers Up App. State Football
Appalachian State is college football’s quiet powerhouse. Just six teams have won more games than the Mountaineers since 2016. Boone, North Carolina might not occupy the same place in football [...]
Build Baseball Power With These 7 Explosive Exercises
As baseball off-season training is kicking into full gear, I've decided to provide a list of all-star exercises that have helped us produce the fastest,...