Training & Conditioning
Strength Training News: Performance Products
Unique AdvantagesPower Systems is known for its huge selection of products, excellent customer service, and fast shipping. The company carries more than 2,300 products, including all of the top brands: Dynamax, Bosu, Bilt by Agassi... more »
HS Strength Coach’s Loss is a Victory
As a high school senior in 2006, Vinson Smith weighed 500 pounds. Since then, Smith, who is the Strength and Conditioning Coach at Mallard High School in Charlotte, N.C., has lost 225 pounds.
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Technology: Increase Performance
Unique AdvantagesPolar is a leading brand in sports physiology and has been dedicated to helping the world's best athletes achieve their goals for more than thirty years. Thousands of teams rely on Polar Team sports... more »
Sports Medicine: Non-Stick Scissors
New Products:In 2014, PRO introduced the PRO 11T Non-Stick Scissor. This was a major advance in bandage scissors as the non-stick coating greatly reduced the adhesive build up on the blades.In April 2015 PRO will... more »
Rethinking Long QT Restrictions
A pediatric cardiologist who led a study of children with long QT syndrome says it may be time to consider allowing them to play a wider range of sports than suggested under current guidelines.
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Athletic Trainer and Inventor
Looking for a more efficient way to monitor her student-athletes’ hydration, East Carolina University Athletic Trainer Sharon Rogers came up with an idea to save time during weigh-ins. Her invention is called Sportscale.The Reflector.com describes the... more »
A New Push for Cardiac Screenings
This fall, the NCAA’s first chief medical officer will recommend that all athletes at greater risk of suffering cardiac death, including male basketball players, undergo an EKG test to search for abnormalities. But despite Dr. Brian... more »
Giving It A Shot
The bone marrow aspirate injection procedure undergone by the Houston Rockets' Dwight Howard last Wednesday has been described as "experimental" by doctors familiar with the procedure. The Rockets' former team physician, however, feels the science behind the procedure... more »
