Blog ATC, CSCS, PT, PhD: Alphabet Soup, Oh My! We're all working towards the same goal; to make healthier and stronger athletes that move better. I was having a conversation the other day regarding scope of practice with a physical therapist friend of mine and we starting talking about limits of our respective practice. This got me
Blog Are You a HIT Guy or an Olympic Guy? Ten years ago if you were sitting behind a desk being interviewed for a strength and conditioning job, you'd redoubtably would be asked whether your a HIT guy or an Olympic guy. This question would later lead to sworn groups of enemies that had more hatred for each
Blog Nike's New Ad Campaign - Real Women I absolutely love Nike's new advertising campaign featuring what it means to be a female athlete. Obviously, I'm not a female, but it's just great to see advertising that is going against the grain and providing popular role models and breaking social stigmas surrounding
Blog Importance of Numbers I cannot begin to express how important it is to measure food out. Maybe it's the scientist in me, maybe it's the geek, I don't know. However, if your serious about getting nutrition in check, then I whole heartily believe that you must approach
Blog Chicago Perform Better Highlight: Thomas Myers The big hit at the Chicago Perform Better seminar was no other than Thomas Myers. He is the author of Anatomy Trains, arguably one of the best anatomy, myofascial, human performance books on the market, and have been practicing for about 35 years. One of the take home messages I
Blog Teaser Announcement I cannot even begin to express how excited I am for this next project of mine. I know I am being secretive, but I just want to make sure everything materializes before I announce anything. I have been planning this project, announcement, endeavor for a long time and finally I
Blog Young Strength Coaches & Google The Summer of 2008, I made a decision that I wouldn't buy a single text book for Graduate School. While I was obligated to buy one during my last semester of school (only one), I graduated with high honors without purchasing a single text book. How did I
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Blog Recovery Tools & Tunes Greetings Blog Readers! I wanted to take a moment out of my day to talk about the very important issue of recovery. Recovery is often over-looked when it comes to fitness, and is one of the many reasons why people grow tired of working out and lead to burn out.
Blog Coaching Philosophy: Introspective Look INTRODUCTION "You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do." Jerry Garcia. There is no doubt that within competitive athletics, athletes and coaches alike are always striving to be the
Blog The Importance of Support > "You don't realize how important Family/Peer support is until you don't have it." Just a short blurb for today discussing how important a support structure is for your weight loss nutritional goals. Dieting and weight loss is hard enough to do alone
Blog People You Should Be Following (Twitter Alert) Look, I understand that there are tons of things for us strength coaches to do. We have programs to make, people to take through workouts, books to read, certifications to get, and so on and so on. I'm not going to suggest that you need to run out
Blog In-Season Training Woes The beginning of school means a lot for a traditional student. It means football games, parties and studying for classes. For the strength coach, (GA) like myself, it means 50 hour weeks, endless amounts of coffee, workouts, training and all the other knick-knacks of dealing with in-season teams. It'
Blog Excessive Supplement: Mo' Supplements = Mo' Problems? Hold up & stop the presses, this supplement issue it getting a bit crazy. Don't get me wrong and think that I am anti-supplements, because by no means am I. The thing is, I don't think you need to take 20 different supplements every day to
Blog Early Specialization: Worked for Tiger Topic of the day is going to be early youth specialization. Right now there are some people that believe in it, and others who strongly disagree. I was just recently listening to a Podcast by Mike Robertson of Robertson Training, titled, In The Trenches, who had guest Mike Boyle speaking
Blog Busy, Busy and More... Busy! Alright gang, I have to admit, I haven't updated in awhile... and I apologize. I've just been crazy busy these last two weeks. If you could peak your eyes back into the back-end of this site, your would see that I have about 9 articles/blogs
Blog I'm Loving the VFF's I've been putting some serious miles in with my Vibram FiveFinger Flow's and let me tell you, buyers remorse has NOT kicked in. Actually, I find myself looking forward to future purchases of VFFs. For a nearly 200lb manchild to run barefooted on cement is no
Blog Product Review: Vibram FiveFinger Flow I had the pleasure to get a hold of these Vibram FiveFingers Flow shoes and let me tell you, they are amazing. Today marks the second week of wearing them and I am completely in. Before I get into the details of how these shoes are superior to others, let
Blog Let's Get Our Female Athletes Squatting Again: A Comprehensive Approach to ACL Injury Prevention Introduction As strength coaches, our primary goal should be preventing injuries. No matter how strong or fast we can make our athletes, these improvements are rendered useless if they are sidelined by injuries. Although we cannot control every variable once the athlete is in the game, we can implement numerous
Blog Jabbawockeez & Branding We all have a guilty pleasures that we're not proud of nor want others to know about. However, this is what makes life so great. It's the hardcore powerlifter who loves teacup puppies or the yoga-vegetarian who absolutely loves listening to SlipKnot. It's crazy
Blog Keeping Your Athletes Focused Those who work with athletes (or even individual clients) will know this. Some time athletes don't necessarily give you 100% of their focus and attention. It is our job as coaches to ensure that the athlete is giving their attention so that skill development can occur. But what
Blog The Curious Case of Olympic Lifting Within the community it has become a growing topic of discussion whether or not Olympic lifts have a place within the training setting. For years now coaches have used O-lifts to develop power in their athletes but since the turn of the century, many have argued whether there is a
Blog 5 Things Done in Commercial Gyms That Need to Stop 1.Sit-ups Look, I know a lot of people out there love sit ups. I know plenty out there that absolutely hate sit ups as well. So hopefully I don't offend those who like the exercise, but there are better ways to train those abdominals people! Stuart McGill
