The One Exercise Football Players Can’t Afford to Skip This Summer
With the start of football season fast approaching, you've likely already been hitting the weight room. Your Squat's gone up, your Bench Press has gotten heavier, and thoughts of Friday [...]
Why You’re Probably Doing Way Too Much Foam Rolling
Let's dig into what qualifies as foam rolling, why it works and what it's best used for.
6 Common Training Mistakes Tearing Up Your Rotator Cuff
Rotator cuff training is boring. It's like the broccoli of lifting weights; you know you should eat some, but you'd rather just skip to dessert (which in this case is [...]
How Exam Weeks Greatly Increase an Athlete’s Risk of Injury
With the school year nearing its conclusion, final exams are a major hurdle for student-athletes. While no one’s ever mistaken finals for a pleasant experience, just how much of a [...]
Knowing Whether and When to Use—And Not Use—a Knee or Ankle Brace
Every year, many athletes suffer devastating ankle injuries, knee sprains and ACL/MCL tears. And most of these injuries aren't even contact-related. Why are knee and ankle injuries so common? The [...]
Why Core Stiffness Matters More Than Core Strength
When it comes to building speed, coaches tend to focus on sprint mechanics, power-based training and plyometrics. Coaches think when we want to develop more powerful athletes, we default to [...]
How Plate Perturbations Can Take Your Band Exercises Up a Notch
I once heard a coach talk about how he used the 70/20/10 rule in his programming. 70% of his programming was science-backed concrete items that he KNOWS will work, 20% [...]
Examining the Science Behind 4 Popular Recovery Techniques
In a previous article, I discussed how proper eating, sleeping and hydration are the biggest factors in helping your body recover after a workout. But for those who already have [...]
Injured Athletes: Fight Depression and Stay Competitive With These 3 Tips
Allow me to open with a scene from the 1993 movie The Program. Coach Winters (played by James Caan): Jefferson, are you injured or are you hurt? Darnell Jefferson (played [...]
The Pre-Round Routine That’s Helped Henrik Stenson Become the World’s Most Accurate Golfer
Henrik Stenson is relentlessly consistent. Over the course of a tournament, many of his competitors will spray shots into danger zones and put up the type of crooked numbers that [...]