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Resisted Sprinting
Speed Kills In the NFC Championship we watched Collin Kapernick burn past Falcon defenders for scoring runs of 40-60 yards. Running speed is a product of stride length and stride frequency, and...
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Cradle to Cossak Squat to Strider with Rotation
The Hips Don’t Lie I cannot state how important hip mobility is to high performance training and bodybuilding. The ability to “open up the hips” is one of the characteristics that distinguishes an...
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Train Strongman Feel Great!
As a child my friends and I used to go out into the woods and take turns picking up rocks and logs to test our strength. We would pretend we were Heracles and Thor attempting to show the other up....
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Reactive Effort RFE Split Squats
In a previous post we discussed how most activities in sports take place unilaterally, or off of a single leg. That includes sprinting, changing directions, and jumping for a layup or fly ball. While...
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The Ideal Bench Press Warmup
How to warm up prior to weight training is often overlooked and over-simplified. Far too often weight lifters and bodybuilders structure their warmups after endurance athletes; focusing on elevating...
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Turn and Sprint Performance
Lets think about what tennis, baseball, football, basketball, lacrosse, soccer, etc. etc. all have in common: the ability to change directions and accelerate is incredibly important for success. Being...
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Biofeedback for Improved Performance
The arousal-performance relationship has been investigated with multi-dimensional arousal assessments such as global state anxiety, a measure of nervousness or apprehensiveness at a particular time;...
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Women like big butts and they cannot lie!
An article entitled “For Men, a Gluteus More Maximus” [1] recently appeared in the New York Times. To summarize, Jeff Vickers, a wealthy Virginia contractor was unhappy with his buttocks, and spent a...
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High Protein Diets Cause Cancer, Study Says
Perhaps you’ve seen the headlines: “High protein diets as bad as smoking for middle-aged people” “High protein diet raises cancer risk as much as smoking” “Study says high-protein diets in midlife...
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Bring on the Beef
Where’s the beef? Red meat, which according to the Journal of Meat Science is pork, beef, lamb, offal, large game, and goat, has received a bad rap over the past two decades. Red meat has been...
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