by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS “You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going because you might not get there.” -Yogi Berra Performing a great evaluation might be the most important part of training athletes and the general population alike. It can be tempting to skip over the evaluation […]
Why Are We So Poor at Rotation?
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS I have said many times that the vast majority of us suck at moving in the transverse plane. We don’t rotate efficiently. But why? What is the reason? This is an interesting question that I don’t know what we can arrive at a really exact answer because the answer […]
Early ACL Rehab 101: Top 10 Interventions
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS An Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) tear can be a HUGE injury. They are all-too-common among athletes, especially in speed and power sports. They usually sideline an athlete for at least 6 months, but my greater concern for the young people that I work with is the long term health […]
Does Stability Training Have to be Unstable?
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS Not too many years ago, instability training was the next big thing. It promised to solve all of our movement pattern issues and make mediocre athletes ready for draft day. Every was doing it or wanted to do it. Instability training is basically using anything that one can think […]
Is Balance Possible?
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS I am currently reading a book on business and life, entitled “The One Thing.” The premise of the book thus far is that we typically try to do too many things and it holds us back from doing one thing really, really well. It is a good lesson for […]
Tweak Taping Explained
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS As many of you know, I love tweak taping. I teach it in the Rocktape FMT Performance course and use it or a variation of it for the majority of my taping applications with my athletes. It has proved to be a great way to improve range of motion […]
