Strength And Conditioning
Common Strength Training Mistakes to Avoid for Teenagers
Strength training is valuable and practical with numerous benefits, including increased muscle mass, improved bone health, enhanced metabolism, and better overall physical fitness. It is particularly beneficial for teenagers to [...]
Training Knees Over Toes: Is it Good or Bad For Your Knees?
In the past, many people believed that allowing the knees to go beyond the toes during exercises like squats or lunges was terrible for the knees. Knees over the toes [...]
Conditioning Programs for Power and Speed: Enhance Your Athletic Performance
Most people just start speed and power training, not understanding how it works. Just sprinting will help increase a small amount of your speed and power but not your potential. [...]
Coordinate Your Sports Conditioning to Maximize Performance
Conditioning is training designed to help athletes integrate their physical abilities, skills, and performance. Effective coordination is vital in achieving peak performance in soccer, basketball, football, or baseball. By coordinating [...]
Benefits of Isometric Training
When people think about strength training, they typically imagine large compound movements through extensive ranges of motion i.e., back squat, deadlifts, bench press, etc. Contrarily, what they typically don’t think [...]
The Importance of General Fitness for High School Athletes: A Foundation for Success
In pursuing excellence on the field, court, or track, it's easy to overlook the importance of general fitness. High school athletes have busy schedules from academics, practice, and competition, and [...]
Strength Training To Reduce Shin Splints
Shin splints are a common injury that can occur when athletes engage in repetitive high-impact activities such as running or jumping, no matter the surface. Pain and tenderness in the [...]
Bear Crawls: How to Properly Perform and Integrate Them Into Your Program
Crawling is touted as a highly beneficial movement pattern included in numerous training programs which offer various performance-enhancing, rehabilitative, and corrective benefits. Not only does it tie together the vestibular [...]
The Best Exercises to Test Maximal Strength in Athletes
When it comes to testing maximal strength in athletes, common advice from the industry would probably more than likely attempt to differentiate between training populations. Collegiate and professional players should [...]
How is Your High School Sports Nutrition Routine?
Routines, we all have them. Whether they’re planned or not, we as humans operate to find some sense of order or purpose daily. We seek structure, and with structure comes [...]
