Written by Here is some pretty cool research highlighted by SweatScience. I don’t so much care about the ferrets, but the measured “high” in humans and dogs is fascinating!
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A Tool for the Toolbox
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An awesome aspect about being a strength coach is you get to watch great coaches do what they do best and at the same time be taught by them yourself. You have the pleasure of learning and then applying this knowledge gained to your athletes and you alike. The following deadlift refinement technique is not [...]
READ MORE »From High School to College Baseball: Another Success Story & A RANT!
I received an email yesterday informing us that one of our long-time trainees, Kent, has decided to commit to New Mexico State University’s offer to play baseball. AWESOME! Kent, and his younger brother Mitch, both committed to their training at SAPT about 2 years ago and take every repetition as if it might be their [...]
READ MORE »3 Tips to Improve Your Bench Press
I’ll get straight to the point with this one. Everyone loves to bench press including myself but very few do it right. Why do something unless you’re going to do it correctly? Try these simple tips to improve your bench. 1. If you don’t set up correctly your bench will suffer… I’ll walk you through [...]
READ MORE »How to Train for a Military Physical Fitness Test: A SAPT Testimonial
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One thing many of you may not realize is that, while SAPT does work primarily with athletes and general fitness clientele, we also have a special “niche” in preparing those seeking to join the military and/or pass a Military Physical Fitness Test. As many of you know (or, at least, can probably guess…), the selection [...]
READ MORE »Thanks To All Our Athletes
The best part of being a strength coach is watching our young athletes come in and train hard. It takes little to no motivating from us coaches to get them to come in and smash weight; they have an awesome desire to get better. It’s the best part of our day to see them come [...]
READ MORE »A “New” Way of Assisting Pullups
The other day, one of our interns, Tadashi, was messing around with the bands and came up with quite a useful way to assist chinups. As soon as I saw it, I had one of those Why didn’t I think of that?! moments. Wrap the band just around your thumbs as shown in the video [...]
READ MORE »Complete and Utter Randomness
Just a few random thoughts that have been running around my mind and some training videos for everyone out there. Random Thoughts: I’ve been struggling as of late when it comes to high school weight training either as a class or after school for sports. It seems to be very few and far between that [...]
READ MORE »How to Get HOOGE!
By far the question that I get asked the most by our male athletes is “how do I get bigger”. I give them the simplest answer they could ever want yet they still for some reason don’t like what I tell them. My answer is usually along the lines of “eat food… a lot of [...]
READ MORE »Research Supports ACL Tear Prevention Programs Beginning at Age 11 for Girls
A recent study: Anterior cruciate ligament laxity and strength of quadriceps, hamstrings, and hip abductors in young pre-pubescent female soccer players over time: a three-year prospective longitudinal pilot study. …whoo, long title… as I was saying, a recent study was published in Orthopedic Physical Therapy Practice that clearly demonstrates the timeframe and magnitude to which [...]
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