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September 28, 2018 Fitness Comments Off on 3 Questions to Help Your Athletes When Their Career Ends
If you are a coach of any kind, sport or strength coach, you have dealt with an athlete’s career coming to an end. For some people, they are lucky enough to see the end coming and are able to prepare for their last game. For others, it can be very …
June 5, 2018 Fitness Comments Off on 5 Ways Parents Mess Up With Their Young Athletes
In my personal opinion, sports are one of the best ways to help in the development of young people. Notice I didn’t say athletes, but people. There is a bigger purpose to sports than just wins and losses. In his recent Complete Youth Training product with Athlete’s Acceleration, strength and …
April 30, 2018 Fitness Comments Off on Favorite Conditioning Workouts of Some of My Favorite Strength Coaches
Conditioning is a necessary evil for most people whether an athlete or your everyday person. There are multiple styles of conditioning that one can do as you will see today depending on your goals. Whether your goal is to be in better shape for your sport or look better naked, …
April 18, 2018 Fitness Comments Off on 6 Pallof Press Variations for a Rock Solid Core
The Pallof press is a staple core exercise in most if not all of my strength training programs. I have written about the Pallof press before and you can find out why I like them so much HERE. My goal today is to give you a couple variations to help …
March 8, 2018 Fitness Comments Off on 3 Brutal Ways to Increase Exercise Density for Muscle Growth
The key ingredient for increases in muscle strength and size is progressive overload. Progressive overload is defined as the gradual increase of stress placed upon the body during exercise to assist in an increase in strength capacity and muscle mass. There are two ways to go about progressively overloading your …
February 27, 2018 Fitness Comments Off on Your Season is Over…Now What???
So your season is over…and as the old saying goes, “only one team ends the season happy.” You may have lost your last game, in which case you may have a raging fire lit under you to get better. Shoot you may have won the whole thing, but guess what? …
February 21, 2018 Fitness Comments Off on Why Your Young Athlete Needs Strength Training
“Strength training will stunt your growth!” “Strength training is dangerous for young athletes!” “Strength training will make you stiff and bulky!” Sadly some these myths are still pervaded in youth athletics…often times by ignorant sports coaches who are still stuck in the 80’s with both their tactical and physiological knowledge. …
February 6, 2018 Fitness Comments Off on My 4 Pillars of Fitness
There are some ideas or beliefs that guide us through life. I like to call them “pillars”, or the principles in which my decisions are built on. Well here are the “pillars” in which I base my training upon. Consistency Consistency can be broken up into two “sub-pillars” for me. …
February 2, 2018 Fitness Comments Off on Random Thoughts While My Youngest Daughter Naps: First Edition
When you have two little girls…one who can’t hardly talk, you get very little time to sit down in your own thoughts. So I figured I’d take a page from my buddy, and pretty bad ass trainer, Brett Cummins(you can find him here) and just spill my thoughts onto paper…while …
February 1, 2018 Rehab Comments Off on How to Fix Your Painful IT Band
Illiotibial Band Syndrome is one of the most common injuries in athletes and people who have a high training volume. This could include your endurance athletes and those who like to torture themselves with a high volume of squat reps. It can be painful and sometimes debilitating but most people …
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