Summary of the findings from the NCAA D1 Women's Indoor Volleyball Strength and Conditioning Coaches Survey.

Why are athletes still crunching for core development but more importantly why are coaches still programming abdominal crunches and sit-ups?  I don’t think both parties are doing it to spite researches like Stuart McGill, but I got to believe that athletes and coaches just don’t know any

I often explain to athletes that our strength and conditioning program is much like the Tortoise and the Hare analogy.  If we get overly concerned with adding weight and progressing before we have the proper movement patterning, than we're essentially adding fitness on top of dysfunction. Remember, weight

Did the Pendulum concerning physical therapy methods, prehabilitition, functional movements, and identifying asymmetries swing too far?  Are we losing the strengthening of our Strength & Conditioning profession?  The Profession Has Strength In Its Name We are strength and conditioning coaches. Strength is the first word. Somewhere along the way, a

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

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

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.

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

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

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! I