Written by The NBA, NHL, and PGA Tour all had pressure filled weekends. Athletes work countless hours to put themselves in a position to perform under that pressure. Sacrifices like missing Mother’s Day, birthdays, and weddings are often made this time of year. Greatness is a word engrained in every athlete’s vocabulary. The one’s who achieve it [...]
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SAPT’s Baseball Summer Training Program
It’s that time of year! Time to get stronger, faster, more powerful, and pack some muscle mass onto your frame. Check out our special offer for baseball players this summer: For the past 6-years, the coaches at SAPT have been helping pitchers and position players alike achieve their potential on the field. Set up a [...]
READ MORE »It’s History, Not Right or Wrong
Yesterday I came across a paragraph in a Charlie Francis manual that said something to the effect of: As coaches and athletes, we shouldn’t allow ourselves to get so wrapped up into what’s right or wrong. Everything is simply history (and, often, history-in-the-making) that can help to inform further progress and even more effective training [...]
READ MORE »Linear Periodization (Yawn…?)
Grab a cup of coffee and get comfortable. I’m about to talk programming and, more specifically, my personal experiences with linear periodization: My go-to programming style is, and always will be, the conjugate sequence system. The reasons are many, but to simplify, I just plain consider it the most effective and safest way to improve [...]
READ MORE »Cold Water Immersion for Immediate Recovery
Through a recent conversation with a coworker I was reminded of a technique my JV Volleyball coach once told our team: when you’re feeling overheated and/or exhausted run the inside of your wrists under cold water as it will help you cool off. At the time it seemed like it would fall into the too-good-to-be-true [...]
READ MORE »Our New Coach & The Double Knee Bend
Our New Coach I’m pleased to welcome SAPT’s newest coach, Tadashi, to our staff! Tadashi interned with us last spring, then went on to the University of Maryland for another internship, and is now on our staff permanently! From the word “Go,” Tadashi established himself as a coach with an excellent eye for detail and [...]
READ MORE »Running & Wrestling: Like Oil and Water?
I have this very special file on my computer that is titled “Master Programs” and inside are all the important tidbits of information that have helped define SAPT’s training approach and the template variations we have created. Looking through it is like taking a trip through time, as I remember where I was and who [...]
READ MORE »Read This! Training Tips from a Toddler
A huge portion of my job boils down to this: teaching adolescents and adults alike how to move with the same precision and excitement that comes inborn for all of us, but that most of us lose over time. Forget about performance or a one-repetition squat maximum… I’m talking about re-teaching the basics of pushing [...]
READ MORE »Chronicles from the Intern Experience
At SAPT we’ve been pretty fortunate to have some wonderful interns since we began taking them only a couple years ago. One who completed his time with us in the spring, Tadashi, has now had a fairly complete look at athletic performance training from three separate sources. Here are his thoughts: I can now proclaim [...]
READ MORE »Thoughts on the Fitness Industry
You probably don’t know this, but at 31 years old, I have already been in the fitness industry for 17 years. Yep, I got my start in the summer of 1995 at age 14. I was helping to clean and answer general questions (like, “where’s the bathroom?”) at my stepfather’s gym in Bedford, VA. I [...]
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