2021 April/May (Volume XXXI, No. 2)
Basketball Strength Training: Make Your Next Season the Best Season
Any coach who has experienced any type of success will tell you how crucial the offseason is for a team’s improvement and a player’s development. The offseason is a time that makes average players good and good players great. The offseason is a time for teams to develop comradery, discipline, toughness, and cohesiveness. Even though […]
Developing Effective Training Routines In Tennis Players
It was the summer of 2015 in Cincinnati, Ohio when I saw Roger Federer training a day before his opening match. He had three sparring partners on the court. They rotated against him in increments of three to five minutes. It lasted roughly fifty intensive minutes for him. I was impressed by the physical component […]
Increasing your Power Index for Strength & Conditioning
In the sporting world, the main reason for partaking in a strength and conditioning program is to provide a benefit to athletic performance. One of the critical features of a good strength and conditioning program will be a strong transferability to sports performance which, hopefully, will be as high as possible. For power athletes in […]
Laser Therapy: The Best Kept Secret in Recovery
What if there was a rehabilitative therapy that treated acute injuries better than ice; one that didn’t create chemical dependencies or require going under the knife? Is there something out there that can relieve the searing phantom pain felt by amputees or war veterans who’ve suffered years of back pain from degenerative disc disease by […]
Merryman’s Upgrade Makes Merry Men of Tech Football
The Virginia Tech Football strength and conditioning center has been transformed into a dynamic training area to meet the current and future needs of the program. This $4.5 million renovation and expansion project nearly doubled the functional workout space of the facility, located in the Merryman Center. The total square footage increased from approximately 6,900 […]
Physical Activity and Its Role in Appetite Regulation
Competitive athletes all have a common goal: to optimize performance and recovery. This happens through training to enhance technical skills and through physiological adaptation. Optimal performance, recovery, and physiological adaptation all have ties to nutrition, and similar to training, nutrition habits for top physical performance need a well-developed plan. Some goals of nutrition to support […]
Protecting the Adolescent Arm, Part II — What Can You Do?
Last March I wrote an article on protecting the adolescent arm just before COVID-19 invaded our lives. High school baseball as-well-as just about everything else shut down for the next two to three months because of the coronavirus outbreak and young athletes everywhere were left with few options to play. Some club baseball programs were […]
See-Worthy: Seek Scan Helping Athletics Return
As the country embarks on a return to normalcy amid the COVID-19 pandemic, how can athletic facilities ensure the health and safety of its staff and spectators? With athletics returning on a wide-spread level and spectator capacity, as well as in-person personnel, increasing, how can facilities efficiently examine those who enter the space and limit […]
Sparta Science Keeps Players Playing, Coaches Coaching
Nearly half a million student-athletes compete in one of the 24 sanctioned sports by the NCAA — more than ever before. With that ever-growing number comes the bigger need of keeping them in the game. Studies show that per every 10,000 individuals, more than 2000 suffer injuries, and separate studies show that 90 percent of […]
Why the Mental Health of Top Performing Athletes is Even More Vulnerable
Those star athletes are worthy of our society’s adoration. They are never afraid of a little adversity, no, not as they stare down the competition with a gleam in their eye that says, “I know I will win.” Physical exertion doesn’t phase them in the slightest. Compared to everyday folks, they are stronger, faster, and […]
