This past Sunday, the San Francisco 49ers were taking on the Kansas City Chiefs. San Francisco is led by $137 million dollar man, Jimmy Garoppolo. The one who TMZ loves following because he dates super models and porn stars apparently. On a scramble out of the pocket, Garoppolo was running for the first down when [...]
When we assess an individual to find out how we can improve speed, we have to look at everything. Running mechanics are huge and faulty running mechanics are usually due to some type of strength and/or flexibility imbalance that needs corrected. Speed coaches sometimes refer to your ankles and feet as an athlete’s wheels. Just [...]
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 [...]
I had my first experience with an athlete who had Vocal Cord Dysfunction (VCD) about 6 – 7 years ago. I had never heard of it, but this particular athlete would start exercising or playing her sport and then would have issues breathing. It is commonly misdiagnosed as exercise induced asthma as in this particular [...]
Every year it seems I write a blog post inspired by the heat. I probably say some very similar things each time I write a post. But, there are new groups of people that are subscribers to what we preach and I’m sure they have not scoured every nook and cranny of our blog to [...]
Way back when, I was working with a female basketball player who was going to play at an ACC school. She had just finished her senior year and wanted to get a little prepared for college basketball. She only gave me about 5-6 weeks to work with her before she was going to report to [...]
The Notre Dame women’s basketball team just won their second NCAA basketball championship in spectacular fashion. Two buzzer beater shots in both the Final Four and the championship game captured the title for them. What I found amazing is that this team had four players injured due to tearing their ACL. I don’t know if [...]
I really don’t like feet. I don’t like the looks of them. I hate wearing flip flops and I hate looking at other people’s feet in their flip flops or open toed shoes. It just isn’t my jam. I’ve become more open to the idea of tolerating feet the more I’ve learned about them. Not [...]
Athletes can be their own worst enemies sometimes. And it is not their fault. If you have watched enough sports, you will hear how tough you have to be when you are injured. So-and-so played with a broken leg, so why can’t you. Or while playing in little league, you might have heard a coach [...]
How old is old enough for my kid to start training? This is a question I get a lot. By this point, I usually have a stock answer that I give parents, but since this is a blog post, my response might start with “what type of training are you talking?” If you are talking [...]