Why do athletes stop training after an injury?
Injuries may keep you off the field, but they shouldn't keep you from training...
“You will never be good enough…”
Last night as I was coaching a group of fairly advanced kids that have been in our program for 5 or 6… [more]
Product Review: SmartJump Vertical Jump Analysis System
Last week we put up a 5 part series on how we test and assess our athletes vertical jump. You can get a closer look at this series by clicking on the links below…
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Testing Max Verticals with the SmartJump System from Fusion Sport. In this post you can see how … Read More >
Tuck Jump Assessment, Lower Extremity Injury Risk
At Athlete Fit we implemented an assessment of landing mechanics based on some research that was presented at the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s National Convention in July of 09. The test involves 10, repeat tuck jumps for maximum height and speed off the ground and we graded 10 different factors such as Valgus Landing, … Read More >
Featured Exercise: Stair Jumping
I often refer to our “Stair Program” in these posts and many times I get questions about what we do on the stairs. “Do you just sprint up the stairs?” and “How does this differ from your box jump program?” are a few of the more common questions. I thought I would take minute to … Read More >
Strength based training (U12- U14′s)
So often people get concerned that we are lifting with some of our younger athletes. And although this might not be a typical prescription for this age group, many of our young girls train with us for years at a time, which gives them the ability to progress to a much higher level than others … Read More >
Focus Exercise: Why we do Single Legged Exercises…
Two of the most discussed aspects associated with injury risk reduction during the season are: 1) lower limb symmetry and 2) force absorption qualities. We used a Hop and Stop test of bilateral force production / force absorption, and the results showed a tremendous gain in symmetry in both the hopping and leaping exercises. We … Read More >
Focus Exercise: Weighted Jump Squats
In this post we are comparing the weighted jump squat to unweighted jump squats (counter movement jump), and commenting on which weighted version might be more similar in pattern to the unweighted jumps. When working with younger athletes in a developmental stage, we need to continue to focus on the movement of the exercise and … Read More >
INSPIRING WORDS: Doing what you’ve never done…
“We cannot get what we’ve never had,
unless we are willing to do what we’ve never done”
Many players come into our training facility with dreams of doing great things. Playing in college, increasing their vertical, hitting with more power… These things don’t come easy. If they did, we wouldn’t recognize them as markers of success. But … Read More >
Digressing Complexity?
I got caught up in a conversation on Twitter with a coach who’s philosophy I truly respect. Here was his original Tweet.
“Why persist in prescribing generic team training programs when we know that each individual is different and unique? Convenient is not right.”
And while this is absolutely true for the personal trainer, it … Read More >
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