Strength
Get A Leg Up On Your Recovery
The legs-up-a-wall pose is a worthwhile addition to your training sessions and recovery practices. For being so simple its benefits are superabundant. The pose helps to reverse the actions that [...]
Run and Sprint Faster When Your Hips are in this Position
It is not your fault. No one ever showed you the correct hip position. You just run, sprint, and move from your basic instincts. However, let's get you on track [...]
Warm Ups for Athletes: 0 to 60 Can Lead to Injury
Whether you’re preparing for a game, practice, or conditioning session, every bout of activity should start with an adequate warm-up because the way you prepare your body can help or [...]
Comfortably Uncomfortable – The Enemy of Progress
When people are working without the guidance of a coach or the structure of some objective markers, there is a tendency to fall into a very specific intensity of training: [...]
Do Your Methods Match Your Goals?
In our health and fitness endeavors, the overwhelming number of options, alternatives, and information at our fingertips can make it difficult to have confidence we are making the right choice. [...]
Don’t Get Pulled Over: Know Your Body’s Speed Limit
If you are driving and see a police officer posted on the side of the road with a radar gun, what is the first thing you do? Slow down, right? [...]
Cluster Sets for Strength and Performance
Cluster sets can be defined as a unique and specialized form of strength training to help elicit a higher quality of muscular contractions across each repetition. Traditionally, an athlete or [...]
Upside Down: Inversion Training for Athletes
As an athlete, your best asset is your body and your great ability is availability. The importance of finding ways to take care of your body and recover cannot be [...]
What Does It Mean to Be “Fit”?
When working in the strength and conditioning or performance realm of fitness, defined targets and benchmarks are easy to determine - there are certain requirements of the sport and through [...]
How Micro-Progressions Can Change Your Workouts
You may have heard the term “Micro-progression” utilized before when it comes to subtly advancing an exercise. You may have also just sub-consciously dismissed the notion and brushed it off [...]