I hope everyone is having a great week! Yesterday, my good friend and mentor Mike Reinold published a guest post that myself and another good friend of mine, Dan Pope, wrote for his website. In this article, we cover 5 of the biggest mistakes that we see occur when athletes we work with are trying […]
I know the last few weeks on the blog have been pretty dense, and more on the advice side than actual training tips. To bring things back, today I wanted to share a very short post on one of my favorite upper back strength exercises, the “U” with overhead press Why These Types of […]
My blog posts in the last few months have been on the “meta” side of the fence, talking about things like overcoming failure, coaching style, and life psychology. I’m ready to dive into the wild nerdy rabbit hole again in a “Brain Spill” type post. The same format will apply, just a whole bunch of […]
Today, I will wrap up the really awesome collaborative blog post series. In case you missed Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, be sure to check those out. Today things will end with some of the best coaches that I know. As I mentioned, many of them were former high-level athletes themselves, so they could […]
This is Part 3 of this epic collaboration blog post on dealing with failure. In the first post (find it here) I talked about how I handled getting kicked out of Physical Therapy school in my last semester. In Part 2, I asked Mike Reinold, Lenny Macrina, and Dan Pope about their biggest failures and […]
Last week in Part 1 of this blog post, I told readers about one of the biggest failures I’ve had to endure in my life: getting kicked out of Physical Therapy school in my last doctoral semester. I told the story, offered the approach that got me out of the gutter, and outlined why this […]
That my friends, is a true statement. I have told very few people this until now, but I was actually kicked out of my graduate Physical Therapy program in the last possible semester, after 6 1/2 years of work and $230,000 of financial investment into my doctoral degree. This left me with a whole lot of […]
I hope everyone is having a great start to the new year! Readers have really seemed to enjoy some more “quick tip” posts with easy to use drills in practice, so I wanted to share another one of my go to’s today. All gymnasts tend to struggle with trying to make their passive split flexibility […]
As if I wasn’t already a massive nerd and read a lot, somehow 2017 topped it off and I read more than ever. I go through huge curiosity swings where I will find a certain topic and go nuts for a few months. Then, once I’m done I’ll just drop that area and jump to another […]
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and New Year! Today I wanted to talk briefly about one of my favorite exercises I have started use a lot: the dynamic side plank clamshell. This is a combination of a few exercises, aimed to recruit certain hip muscles to a very high degree (research here and here). […]
