There Is No Real Off-Season for Youth Athletes Anymore
There Is No Real Off-Season for Youth Athletes Anymore Every year, we hear the same thing from parents. “My athlete is starting their season, so we’re going to pause sports performance training for now.” At first, that makes sense. Your child already has practices. Games are starting. School is back. Their schedule is packed. The […]
How to choose the right sets and reps for your fitness goals
How to Choose the Right Sets and Reps for Your Fitness Goals Walk into almost any gym and you’ll see workouts written the same way. 3 sets of 10.4 sets of 8.5 sets of 5. Most adults have followed these numbers at some point without really knowing why. Maybe you found a workout online, copied […]
Stop Confusing Sport-Specific Training With Performance Training
Stop Confusing Sport-Specific Training With Performance Training A parent walks into the gym and asks a question we hear all the time: “My son plays basketball. Do you do basketball-specific training?” A few hours later, another parent asks the same question about football. Then soccer. Then lacrosse. Then baseball, softball, volleyball, field hockey, wrestling, and […]
Combined Training for Vertical Jump: Why Plyometrics Alone Isn’t Enough
Combined Training for Vertical Jump: Why Plyometrics Alone Isn’t Enough Every athlete who has ever tried out for basketball, volleyball, or any jumping sport has stood in front of a wall and thought the same thing: I need more inches. Parents see it too. Their kid is talented, motivated, doing the box jumps the YouTube […]
Upper Body Strength Training for Athletes: 5 Movements Every Youth and Adult Athlete Needs
Upper Body Strength Training for Athletes: 5 Movements Every Youth and Adult Athlete Needs Upper-body strength training for athletes is one of the most undervalued pillars of athletic development—and one of the most misunderstood. Walk into almost any gym and you’ll see athletes loading up a bench press, cranking out a few sets, and calling […]
Stop Chasing Cardio: Resistance Training 3 Days a Week Is Your Fat Loss and Weight Loss Solution
Stop Chasing Cardio: Resistance Training 3 Days a Week Is Your Fat Loss and Weight Loss Solution Let’s cut straight to it. You’re busy. You’ve got a career, a family, and a life that doesn’t orbit around the gym. So when someone asks whether one hour of strength training three days per week, paired with […]
Osteoporosis After 40: How to Stop Bone Loss and Build Stronger Bones
Osteoporosis After 40: How to Stop Bone Loss and Build Stronger Bones “I felt completely fine. No pain. No warning signs. Then I slipped getting out of the shower — and shattered my hip.” — A client, age 58, 6 months before she walked back into our gym. That story is not rare. It is […]
Nutrition for Recovery: Boost Performance and Muscle Repair
The science of fueling on rest days vs. training days — and why getting it wrong is costing you your gains. You put in the work. You train hard, lift heavy, push your conditioning. But there’s a question most serious trainees never fully answer: what does your nutrition look like on the days you don’t […]
What Does A Coach Eat? All About The Paleo Diet
Fast Is a Skill: Speed That Shows Up in Games
Speed is one of the most misunderstood qualities in athletic development because most people train it the same way they train conditioning. They add reps, shorten rest, chase fatigue, and assume that suffering equals transfer. The problem is that sprinting is not a grit test. Sprinting is a high output skill. If the outputs drop, […]