Lunging is a basic, fundamental movement pattern that all athletes should be able to perform.  Unfortunately, many athletes don’t lunge well.  This is often due to lack of core and trunk stability which causes the hip flexors to turn on when they aren’t supposed to and increases trunk flexion.  Using the TRX Rip Trainer, we […]

Early in the offseason, it is first important that we perform corrective and activation exercises to prepare our athletes to handle a load. That is also our chance to teach and re-teach foundational movements. From there, we go into a series of workouts to increase work capacity. This accumulation phase is important for developing a […]

For those of you who aren’t real familiar with the TRX Rip Trainer, it has become a very well respected tool for fitness trainers around the world. It is also a tremendous tool for rehab and corrective exercise. Many athletes who come to us have a faulty squat. In the past, we would have worked […]

For those of you who aren’t real familiar with the TRX Rip Trainer, it has become a very well respected tool for fitness trainers around the world. The concept of the Rip Trainer is simple.  It is a stick with a band on the end.  But don’t let it’s simplicity fool you.  It is a […]

A favorite workout of mine during an accumulation phase or when you need to boost an athlete’s work capacity in a functional manner. This workout combines strength and stability under high neurological loads. It beats the heck out of running as a total body metabolic conditioning workout as well. Movement Preparation: Miniband Hip Rotations 3 […]

I have to admit, that I have been slow to really enthusiastically grab onto the concept of retraining an athlete’s ability to breathe. It is something that I honestly have been pushing back against, because at the end of the day, does an athlete’s breathing technique really mean that much? What kind of impact can […]