Stability and Balance
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 [...]
Build True Strength and Stability With Core Training
The core is the body's center of power generation, making it vital for athletic performance. For this reason alone, it's a hot topic of conversation among coaches and athletes. In [...]
Stability Training to Improve Your Golf Swing
Are you ready for this? The best training for golf: swinging a golf club. And the principle applies to any sport or activity. The best way to train for the [...]
Walk the Line: The Art of Slacklining
Looking for an adventurous way to improve your core strength, balance, and concentration? Try slacklining, a balance test in which participants walk across nylon webbing tensioned between two anchors like [...]
LaDainian Tomlinson's 3 Exercises for Productivity and Durability
As an NFL running back, LaDainian Tomlinson was the ultimate competitor and an elite playmaker who possessed a work ethic second to none. According to his longtime performance coach, Todd [...]
Building Strong and Mobile Shoulders, Part 3: Stability Training
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we provided a self test to measure your shoulder health and a strength workout. We now cover stability training, the final [...]
How to Keep Your Shoulders Healthy, Part 2: Shoulder Stability
As an athlete, your shoulder is one of your most often used joints. It suffers the brunt of contact from tackles, body checks and simply falling to the ground. In [...]
Two Physioball Workouts to Improve Full-Body Strength
Physioball workouts can be a refreshing addition to your traditional strength training program. A physioball creates an unstable surface for any exercise, which means your core and other stabilizer muscles [...]
Eliminate Muscle Imbalances to Improve Performance and Stay Injury-Free
You can strength train all you want to get strong and big. But if your body doesn't have balanced strength, you are putting yourself at risk for injury. Balanced strength [...]
Flexibility Fridays: Downward Dog, An Athlete's Best Friend
Every Friday during the month of February, Dana Santas, founder and director of Radius Yoga Conditioning (RYC), who has worked with more than 18 teams across the NBA, MLB, NFL, [...]