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Aug 24
The Safety Bar for Power Endurance Clusters
The safety bar comes with a far reduced orthopaedic cost than would occur with the traditional barbell.
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Oct 23
Athlete Recovery and Aerobic Fitness: An Athlete Vlog About the BOLT Score
Learn how to use the Body Oxygen Level Test (BOLT) to improve your aerobic fitness and monitor your recovery. Here is a video of John, one of our professional basketball players, talking about his experience with using the BOLT. John was able to get his BOLT Score over 50. When engaged in high-level sport or […]
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Oct 23
Creatine, Free Radicals, and TAS: A New Model For Creatine Use?
If supplementation with creatine monohydrate reduces Total Antioxidant Status, should we reconsider how we recommend its use to team sport athletes? Creatine is one of the most well-researched performance supplements in the world. Aside from its clear benefits to performance, it also has data proving its efficacy for infants and seniors for treating certain cognitive/neurological disorders. […]
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Oct 23
Athlete Asymmetries: Fighting Fire With Fire
The role of asymmetry in “sport-specific” training. In strength & conditioning we have something that we call the Two-to-One method. It is a method that seeks to balance the strength between each pair of limbs by performing twice the amount of work on the arm or leg that is weakest. As an example, if your […]
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Oct 23
Tissue Preparation: It’s Not Just About the Warm-up
Try these proven supplemental approaches to optimize the health of your tissues. Remember, athletes who stay injury free get more play time and ultimately, make more money.
It isn’t just about foam rolling, mobility, or flexibility. It’s also about having the right stuff in your blood to repair muscle and connective tissues from damage inherent to training
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Oct 23
Why Jumping and Sprinting Athletes Should Do Throws
The simplest solution to this problem is to perform heavy throws. Throws help to counter the effect that the lats and erectors have on the pelvis by building enough fast-twitch tone in the glutes and abdominals to normalize the position of the hips and combat anterior pelvic tilt.