In Part 1 of our 3 part series on the 1/2 Kneeling Windmill, we discussed the basics of this great movement that challenges both mobility and stability.  In Part 2, we see how we can challenge a more advanced athlete by modifying their foot position and stance.  Explore this very versatile and powerful movement… Looking […]

At MTS, we are always looking for quality, dynamic and versatile movements.  Exercises that stretch an athlete’s limits of mobility, stability, strength, and motor control reign supreme when we look at exercise selection.  This holds true with every athlete that we work with, whether they are returning after a surgery, looking to prevent a surgery, […]

The Thoracic Spine has been described as a movement “linchpin.”  Meaning, it plays a huge role in just about every movement pattern in the body.  When it breaks down, so does everything around it.  According to the Joint-by-Joint approach by Boyle and Cook, if the Thoracic Spine is immobile, the lumbar spine will be forced […]

The Thoracic Spine has been described as a movement “linchpin.”  Meaning, it plays a huge role in just about every movement pattern in the body.  When it breaks down, so does everything around it.  According to the Joint-by-Joint approach by Boyle and Cook, if the Thoracic Spine is immobile, the lumbar spine will be forced […]

We need stability in just about every moving moment of our lives.  Unfortunately, many people don’t possess a lot of stability or don’t know how or when to turn it off and on.  I train lower extremity stability with my healthy athletes almost to the point of nausea in an effort to prevent injuries (and […]

The Romanian Deadlift (RDL) is a great exercise for teaching the hip hinge. Without a doubt, it is a can’t miss exercise for training athletes. The single leg version is even better for a number of reasons, but it is also a very difficult exercise to teach correctly. Once they can master the Single Leg […]

One of my favorite exercises has quickly become the Offset Squat. It is more forgiving than a symmetrical stance squat and more sport specific. It allows someone with a poor regular squat to find depth that they weren’t able to do any other way. Also, when you think about it, how many times in sports […]

The inverted row is a great exercise for a number of reasons.  It is safe, appropriate for a variety of athletes, provides a lot of overload, works in fascial lines, and has a lot of variations.  Take look and try it with your clients and athletes.   Looking for more help?  Schedule a consultation today!

Deadstart Training is about teaching athletes to create stability throughout their entire chain from a fully relaxed position.  Many of our athletes can’t initiate what is needed in their kinetic chain to create tension out of nowhere.  The ability to do this is important for performance training and injury prevention.  Using a TRX to perform […]

One of the biggest problem that strength coaches, sport coaches, and personal trainers face is working around lower extremity injuries.  This is especially true if they are on crutches and completely non-weightbearing.  Unfortunately, many coaches don’t have a lot of specific injury knowledge.  I challenge you as a coach to learn everything that you can […]

We find that in this day in age, most of our athletes present with many of the same dysfunctions because of the comfortable lifestyle that we are afforded here in the US.  Our athletes tend to be very shortened and overactive in the anterior aspect of their body in general.  They also tend to struggle […]

This is one of my favorite exercise progressions.  Not only is it incredibly functional, but it actually solves a lot of the issues that you typically see with athletes doing lunges.  If you follow the progression, you can ensure that your athletes will be able to perform a quality, complex lunging pattern very efficiently.   […]

I used to scratch my head when I watched my athletes do a lunge, wondering why they couldn’t keep their chest up on the way up from the bottom of the lunge.  I began to play with different options with loads and hand positions and it quickly became obvious to me that it was due […]

This is the second part of our 3 part series on using the TRX Suspension Trainer to rehab an athlete following a major knee surgery. In this edition, we are discussing some examples on bridging the gap between the immediate, non-weight bearing phase of rehab to some more functional type activities. The suspension trainer is […]

I pulled this video clip out of the archives, so the audio is a bit rough, but the content is very applicable. I have been guilty in the past of taking athletes who were injured and considered non-weightbearing and limiting their exercises and the variety of things that they can do. It gets really easy […]

Many sports require a great deal of upper body strength and power. At a minimum, almost all sports require the upper body to be fast, efficient and fully coordinated. Obviously all of those things are controlled by the body’s neurological system. By using this sequence, you can get your athletes fully prepared for a workout, […]

Metabolic fitness is one of, if not the most important part of training the high level athlete.  Conditioning for athletes is no longer a case of running a few laps, or punishing someone until they puke. Metabolic training has evolved a great deal over the past decade to include a number of training modalities and […]