Read Part 1 of Off-Season Conditioning: Squats here. To truly develop the athlete, proper muscle loading is essential. In this post we will examine glute vs quad loading. It is fairly easy to figure out which your player is doing, but a little bit harder of a fix. It takes a decent amount of awareness…
Off-Season Conditioning: Squats
Teaching correct movement is extremely important, especially with squats. If we train without focus on the correct muscle activation players will still get stronger, but they will be strengthening their misalignments and imbalances. How many kids are taught proper form from their first squat on? I’m talking just a simple body weight squat. It should…
Off-Season Conditioning: Back to Movement Basics
Off-season conditioning is more than getting in the weight room and hitting the track. Identifying your strengths and weakness and getting back to basics is crucial to getting the most out of your off-season. Do a squat…where do you feel it? Do a push up…where do you feel it? Did you know there are right…
5 Exercises for ACL Injury Prevention
ACL, 3 little letters, everyone knows them, and everyone knows hearing them as an injury diagnosis can make your heart sink. The injury will ruin a season and require months of rehab. Even after that one can only hope to be back to normal, but with the mental block that often comes with the injury…