Stability and Balance
Flexibility Fridays: Improve Balance With Yoga
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, [...]
Improve Full-Body Stability With Three BOSU Exercises
Stability is the foundation of any athlete’s success on the court or field. To build upon that foundation, you need to find new ways to avoid plateaus and keep improving. [...]
Develop Rotational Stability to Amp Your Performance
Sports are multi-directional, meaning movement takes place in a variety of planes and positions. It is vital to perform exercises that develop your strength, speed and agility in all directions. [...]
Three Exercises to Help You Dominate the Boards and Corners Like Milan Lucic
The physicality of hockey heightens when the puck is along the boards. Players use their full physical strength and power to fight off opponents and gain possession of the puck. [...]
Improve Athleticism With Donald Brown's Indo Board Balance Training
No matter how strong or fast you are, there's always room for improvement. Identify your weaknesses and combat them to become the best athlete you can be—just like NFL running [...]
Easy Ways to Work Balance Training Into Your Workout Program
A typical workout includes a dynamic warm-up, speed training, agility and quickness drills, plyometrics, weight and resistance training, core development, recovery and cool down. But the workout is not complete [...]
You Asked For It: Sand Training to Build Speed and Strengthen Feet and Ankles
STACK recently received a tweet asking for our thoughts on speed training on sand. [Hit us up on Twitter if you have performance-related questions!] We went to one of our [...]
Use Physioball Training to Increase Strength, Improve Balance
Physioballs, a staple in nearly every training facility, are popular with athletes looking to sculpt six-pack abs, but their benefits go well beyond developing beach muscles. Their primary advantage is [...]
Med Ball Training Improves Power, Strength and Stability
A medicine ball is a weighted exercise tool that can be used to improve an athlete’s strength, power and stability. The versatility and cost effectiveness of a med ball make [...]
Why Athletes Need Balance and Reactive Training
Athletes are constantly given false representations of how to improve strength and overall athleticism. That’s why most high school athletes, once in the weight room, go straight for the Bench [...]