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12 Phrases Youth Athletes Needs to Hear From Their Parents

Your words can heal and empower. As parents, your words have a powerful effect on your child's performance and enjoyment of playing youth sports. When...

18 Rules for Better Sleep

Sleep helps you perform better during games or competitions, recover faster from training sessions, and according to a Clinical Journal [...]

How To Personalize Technology For Your Training

As more innovation and technology enters our daily lives, they bring better ways to improve our performance training. The days [...]

Benefits of Coconut Water for Athletes

Top Benefits of Coconut Water for Athletes

Nutrition Assessment for High School Athletes

This assessment has allowed us to change our education tactics to best fit each individual's learning style.

5 Ways Working Out Makes You Smarter

The life of a student-athlete is not easy. Balancing school, sports and other activities is a constant juggling act, with [...]

Slow Down Aging With Slow Eccentric Training (SET)

An aging and sedentary body is similar to that of Superman and kryptonite. It slows him down, makes him weak [...]

How Can I Extend My Playing Days?

Extending our playing days, stretching for new goals, or taking on weekend warrior ambitions requires focusing greater attention on your [...]

Is It Okay to Eat the Same Thing Every Day?

Many people approach their diet with the motto, “if it ain't broke, don’t fix it.” If you’ve found something that [...]

What Is Normal Eating?

Traditional families are used to enjoying a hearty breakfast, lunch (at noon), and supper (at night). And when women entered […]

Why You Want Your Kids To Lose

Some might argue that learning to lose is actually the point of youth sports.

My […]

How To Connect With Your Teammates

“I love you guys!” my daughter said as she hugged each teammate that walked onto the basketball court. She didn’t […]

Is Hard Seltzer Healthy?

I’ll acknowledge that a hard seltzer paired with a cheeseburger over summer weekends tastes pretty fantastic.

And the beautiful thing about […]

Why Locking Kids Into Just One Position Goes Against The Goal of Youth Sports

“My son’s a shortstop.”

“My daughter’s a striker.”

“My kid’s a point guard.”

All too often, sports parents approach the coach with these […]

TRAINING

A Weak Lower Back Could Be Limiting Your Big Lifts. This Exercise Will Fix It Fast

20 Plank Variations That Actually Make You More Athletic

5 External Cues That Elicit Great Exercise Form (And Why They Work So Well)

Gold Glove First Baseman Matt Olson Grew Up Catching Pop Flies Thrown Through a Tree

New Bench Press Study Finds Surprising Results

Try These 3 Crawling Exercises to Build Total-Body Strength

Can You Handle LeBron James’ Secret Recovery Weapon?

How Dialing in His Mechanics Helped Christian McCaffrey Supercharge His Speed

This Warm-Up Could Help You Throw Harder Than Ever

4 Hacks to Make Your Muscle-Building Workouts More Effective

Why You Should Train Knees Over Toes

3 RDL Mistakes Hurting Your Back

Sport Should Be a Safe Place for Everyone. You Can Help.

At its essence, sport is a place where we can go to learn, grow, and thrive, both physically [...]

5 Basketball Footwork Drills

Good footwork and agility are keys to success on the court.

Try the World’s Greatest Stretch

An Effective And Efficient Pre-Training Warm Up Stretch When it comes to preparing for training and sport, the goal should be to make the warm up...

Meet Cass Elliott: University of Washington’s 400m Hurdler Talks Track

How has he achieved such success on the track for someone who wanted to be a pro football player?

The Elaborate Game Day Routines Behind Corey Kluber’s Unshakeable Performance

Corey Kluber might be the most unshakeable man in professional sports.

Become a Leader on the Soccer Pitch With These 12 Verbal Cues

There are many ways soccer players can provide verbal cues, but the best ones are short, precise and let the player know exactly what their best move should be.