Strength Training
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 [...]
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 [...]
Focus on Leg Strength to Throw Faster, not Your Arm.
Strong legs are essential in baseball for pitchers who want to throw fast. The power that comes from their lower body transfers through the arm. So it's crucial that they [...]
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 [...]
Weightlifting for Agility
Step into a big box commercial gym, and you'll find most people there are working on aesthetics, the way they look. Those doing cardio are trying to lose weight, and [...]
Olympic Weightlifting Readiness
This article will go into detail about what an athlete can do to prepare for olympic weightlifting and why they should master the four prerequisite lifts before attempting any cleans [...]
3 Ways to Take Your Game to the Next Level
Most of us have the drive to succeed, but the roadmap on how to create tangible success is often blurry at best. Figuring out what steps to take can be [...]
Exercises to Make Football Linemen and Receivers More Explosive and Faster on the Field
Your first step on the field must be explosive as a defensive lineman, wide receiver, or pass rusher to be faster than your opponent. All Olympic lifts, like squats, power [...]
