You likely have a standard warm-up that you do before each workout. (You do warm-up, right?) After you leave the locker room your pre-workout routine probably looks something like this: You do some sort of bouncy tip-toe walk on your way to the foam roller (because that seems like the more athletic and loose thing … Read More
Sports Performance Training
Effective Hip Mobility Drills
For this week’s Mobility Monday, we are flashing back to the first part of a series we did on hip mobility! If you are familiar with our original tag line, it’s as follows: Move Better. Feel better. Perform Better. We meant it. 🙂 If you move well, you will most likely perform well. Here is … Read More
Putting Power Back Into Power Cleans
The power clean is one of the most common exercises used by athletes and coaches in an attempt to build explosiveness. In sports performance facilities and high school weight rooms athletes are often asked to perform this exercise. If you’re a collegiate athlete, it’s likely your coach recently gave you a workout book with designated … Read More
Three Tips to Get in Shape This Summer
Oh the start of summer… High school students everywhere have been dreaming about everything they want to do over the next couple of months. On the list may be things like building an energy-efficient tree fort, striving to get a tank top tan, learning to surf and eating at Chipotle as much as possible. Joking aside, the summer … Read More
How Young is too Young to Train?
Often times parents of young athletes come to us asking if their young athlete is too young to begin resistance training or participate in a sports performance training program at Skill of Strength. Who can blame them? Everyone’s heard the old rumor that weight lifting stunts kid’s growth, right? Obviously, parents don’t want to mess with that! Now, … Read More
The Trendy Strength Coach
This post could also be called, how to find a strength and conditioning coach who knows what he/she is doing! Today’s post is inspired by something that happened last week. An athlete we just started working with told me about a guest strength coach who came to his school to take his football team through … Read More
Five Reasons to Stop Comparing Sports Performance Training to Working Out
It’s been my experience that a lot of people misunderstand sports performance training. You may be thinking, what’s to misunderstand? Isn’t sports performance training just a fancy way of saying you are an athlete working out so you’re not completely out-of-shape when the season rolls around? Kind of, but not really. Here’s the issue. Many people view sports performance … Read More
Tempo Running for Athletes – A Game-Changer
Every fall and spring as athletes transition back to their field sports, they inevitably find themselves riddled with hamstring pulls and hip flexor strains. Often times athletes are procrastinators, and they try to cram what should have been 3 months worth of training into a 3-week period when they realize pre-season is right around the corner. Now, … Read More
Five Common Program Design Mistakes
Over the last few years, I’ve pretty much emerged myself in program design. I’ve followed programs, designed them and tweaked them over and over again. I’ve learned a ton along the way and this with these experiences I’ve become a better coach. Here’s the really cool part…I have been lucky enough to have a mix … Read More
9 Reasons Mobile Athletes are Better on the Field
I’m guilty of running through a quick prep (just to say I did it) and then jumping into my training as quickly as possible. The majority of you probably do this as well. Let’s face it, you’re not bragging to your buddies that today is shoulder and hip mobility day in the gym. However, although … Read More