Okay, I have to fess-up: I’m sick. At this point, coming up with something new and creative is pretty much beyond me. I feel accomplished to have simply gotten off the couch this morning and made it into work. Below is an article I wrote about 4 years ago. Enjoy! Recently, I was speaking with [...]
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It literally just registered on my drive in this morning that Steve is officially out-of-town and I am officially in charge of all but the Thursday post. Yikes! Okay, here’s what I’ve got for today and I promise I’ll get myself together for the rest of the week: 1. We were out finishing our Christmas [...]
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Research on expertise, talent identification and development has tended to be mono-disciplinary, typically adopting genocentric or environmentalist positions, with an overriding focus on operational issues. In this paper, the validity of dualist positions on sport expertise is evaluated. It is argued that, to advance understanding of expertise and talent development, a shift towards a multidisciplinary [...]
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For most of our readers this is a “preaching to the choir” study I found: “Effects of complex training on explosive strength in adolescent male basketball players.” But, I thought it was worth posting for those few of our readers who may not be fully sold on in-season training: The purpose of this study was [...]
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I started this post back in September when I noticed that I was exactly 30 years and 30 weeks old, thus, the 30 points I want to share. I hope you enjoy this one… going back and rereading what I had written, I realized this post was better than I originally gave it credit for. [...]
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The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research published a paper entitled “The effect of pomegranate juice supplementation on strength and soreness after eccentric exercise” in July of 2011. Here is the abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine if pomegranate juice supplementation improved the recovery of skeletal muscle strength after eccentric exercise in [...]
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Experience our distance coaching system for 2-weeks absolutely FREE!!! That’s right, we’re opening-up the vault so you can try a taste of SAPT goodness for yourself: 2-weeks (6-sessions) of carefully balanced and scientifically backed programming. This program is designed to mobilize, strengthen, and condition a moderately active adult! Step-by-step, in depth coaching cues to ensure [...]
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I just stumbled upon a study published in the Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research in December 2010 titled: “Comparison of kinetic variables and muscle activity during a squat vs. a box squat.” Basically, what the study found is that box squatting was measured to produce both more force and more power than a traditional [...]
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My wife and I just returned from an awesome honeymoon in Boston, where we enjoyed some much-needed quality time together, experienced the city of Boston for the first time, and also got in some (five, to be exact) sweet training sessions up at Cressey Performance. Upon returning from the Northeast, there are a few summarizing [...]
READ MORE »Check-out the videos below of a couple of our minor league baseball guys finishing up their training session with some grip and rotator cuff work. Any deadlift/farmers walk variation will be improve rotator cuff strength through irradiation. Cook and Jones popularized this term, and many others have trumpeted it, so I’m not passing it off [...]
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