“Mental Health” seems to be a key buzz word these days. Ever since mid-March, there has been a big concern that one of the many things the pandemic has affected has been mental health. I think people have a general idea of what mental health is, but I wanted to look up a definition for [...]
I have learned so much about nutrition and recovery these last 8 months or so. And a lot of it has come from professional athletes and how they are utilizing both strategies. Especially, the athletes that are getting older and have only a few years potentially left in their careers. They have learned that if [...]
The new normal now is to social distance yourself from everyone except who you live with in your immediate household. If you go somewhere else where there are people, be prepared to walk around in your bubble suit. That being said, this takes you away from the gym and any type of working out with [...]
The more I’m researching about training for your athletes, the more excited I get about the information that is out there for them. I’ve recently stumbled across something that I had heard about, but really knew very little about it. It is Heart Rate Variability or HRV for short. What is Heart Rate Variability? HRV [...]
I’ve written about this before, but summer is not the ideal time to think your athlete is going to make huge performance gains. It CAN be, but only if you will not be going on any family vacations, attending any camps that take you away from a gym, and not playing a fall sport. If [...]
Having watched track athletes all these years, I see this all the time. It never fails to occur the first time in the season you have warm weather and a nice sunny day. At least it never fails in Columbus, Ohio where I reside. Maybe if we lived in Florida year round I wouldn’t see [...]
In my field, you will hear about athletes doing sand training as way to improve speed and conditioning. I don’t live around much sand, so I don’t get to experiment with this a whole lot. Until this past week. My family was down in Florida for spring break. With my daughters smack dab in the [...]
We had a track meet this weekend. It wasn’t a huge meet, but I was trying to make sure a few of my athletes had opportunities to decrease their times. One of my sprinters was in a position to improve her time for a couple of events and really solidify her position to qualify for [...]
I’ve been working with improving speed for young athletes for years. I do have an age requirement for our services and that age is 10. Not that kids younger than 10 can’t do speed training, but the way we are set up, I prefer not to work with kids that young. But, we get calls [...]
I was recently pondering over a lot of our workouts we’ve written these past months and something donned on me that was familiar over a good amount of them. We seemed to be doing drills that focused a lot on glute activation no matter what the issue was for the athlete. Whether we were working [...]