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The Ten Commandments of Conditioning
Jonathan Conneely
No matter what sport you compete in, you will probably agree that conditioning plays a huge factor in how an athlete performs. If an athlete is not conditioned properly, they will never achieve peak performance in their sport! Working as a Collegiate Strength Coach I am amazed at the conditioning that is performed just for the hell of it, either by a sports coach or a strength coach. Maybe it's the age we live in or maybe it's due to lack of knowledge…. I have thus created the Ten Commandments of Conditioning. I hope this article will be beneficial to you in conditioning your athletes, or yourself! . . . keep reading
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Understanding Sports Hernia May Mean Understanding Adduction
Michael Boyle
Last year I wrote a piece called Understanding and Training Hip Flexion (www.strengthcoach.com/members/1283.cfm ). The idea was to take a look at muscles of the hip and how these muscles function from a slightly different perspective. This process led me to continue to study the hip and how we look at this critical area. One of the things I pride myself on is continuing to try to learn. Fortunately or unfortunately I feel like the more I learn the more I realize I don't know. An area that has become of increasing interest to me, and to many others in the fields of performance enhancement and physical therapy, is the area of sports hernia. It seems like every week another athlete is having surgery for a 'sports hernia". In order to begin to understand the concept of sports hernia, the first thing we need to do is attempt to describe a sports hernia. In the technical sense, the sports hernia is a tear in the lower abdominal wall in the inguinal area. Unlike a classic inguinal hernia there is rarely a significant tear that results in a bulge. Rather there is a gradual onset of pain in the lower abdominal area, usually beginning as groin pain. . . . keep reading
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Dissecting the Sports Hernia
Kevin Neeld
In collegiate and professional athletics, the term "sports hernia" seems to be frequenting conversations more and more. While the diagnosis of a sports hernia seems to be increasing both in prevalence and media attention, the injury remains poorly understood and defined. An in-depth look into the associated research helps explain why there is so much confusion surrounding this injury. . . . keep reading
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Hip Instability Gives New Meaning to Hip-Hop: Six Must Have Exercises for Hip Stability
Aaron Brooks of Perfect Postures
When our clients tell us about the pain they feel in their lower body when they workout or run it is often very easy for us to concentrate on those parts of the anatomy from the hip joint down. We typically address hip mobility, knee stability, or ankle mobility because when we visualize the motions associated with these types of movements we think about these parts as fulcrums that allow for these activities. But fundamentally we all know that ideal motion is about stability just as much as it is about mobility. This is precisely why hip stability is an issue that deserves a greater focus. Of course these other points of consideration are very important because if they are not addressed, lower extremity as well as lower back issues can result. However, this article is intended to identify the impact instability has on the hip in order to bring attention to this less talked about factor in identifying and assisting chronic pain clients and athletes. . . . keep reading
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Pre-season Testing
Michael Boyle
As fall rolls around the topic for many strength and conditioning coaches becomes pre-season testing. Although many of you have already planned your tests my ideas may stimulate some thought. . . . keep reading
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How Not to Warm Up
Nick Tumminello
I like to think of myself as the thinking man's coach. I'm always evaluating my own programs and what's currently being taught by other professionals in the hopes of finding better, more efficient ways of doing things.
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Episode 18- The Strength Coach Podcast
Anthony Renna
Interviews with: -Lee Burton about Primitive Patterns
-Coach Boyle about his A-Ha Moments and Forum Topics
-Gray Cook- The Squat and Valgus Knees
-Kevin Larrabee about the Fitcast.com
-Chris Poirier about the BIG Perform Better Sale . . . keep reading
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EMG for Strength Coaches
Kevin Neeld
As strength and conditioning coaches, much of what we do involves training the neuromuscular system. Consequently, the more we can learn about the way the neuromuscular system works to produce force and coordinated movement the better we can train our athletes. One of the tools used to monitor the neural input to muscles is electromyography (EMG). EMG can be a confusing area because the signal is affected by so many different things, including well-known things like muscle fiber size and the number of muscle fibers, and less well-known things like body fat and blood flow. While much of the EMG research may be of interest to the strength and conditioning community, it's important to understand what exactly it is and what it measures so that research isn't misinterpreted. Hopefully this article will shed some light on EMG misnomers. . . . keep reading
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Staying in the Tunnel
Lee Taft
One of the arts of being a good coach is using proper verbal cuing. In this article I want to talk about a cue that you can use that will physically and mentally change how your athletes move.
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