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Better Stability for a Bigger Vertical Jump

“Stability maximizes activation.” This was a quote from Bret Contreras following an article he had posted on T-Muscle last week. While I didn’t agree with the article entirely, this quote really stood out. There’s a delicate balance between the strength in the prime movers of a joint, and the strength of the underlying stabilizing muscles.  […]

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August 26th, 2009

Robertson Training Systems Newsletter 5.16 How Healthy is Running? A few days ago, I reviewed a NY Times article which espoused the benefits of running on joint health.  If you’d like to see my entire write-up, I’ve provided the blog link below: Running Blog The biggest issue I had was when the author stated that […]

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Review: Off-Ice Hockey Training

Today, I’m going to review Kevin Neeld’s Off-Ice Performance Training Course.  While hockey definitely isn’t my forte, I figured I’d throw this out there since I’m not sure there’s a ton of hockey-specific products on the market, and several of my readers may be interested in it.  If nothing else, I can comment on what […]

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Congrats to Alex Sprague

While I don’t like to brag about our clientele all that often, I wanted to give a shout-out to Alex Sprague, a US Olympic bobsled hopeful.  I’ve been working with Alex for a little over a year now, and he’s doing quite well for himself on the international circuit. Here’s a brief article on Alex […]

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Designer Athletes

Originally posted at www.t-nation.com How to Build a Freaky Athlete Since I started writing for T-Nation, I’ve received literally thousands of e-mails asking me to describe how I set up strength training programs for my athletes. I’m not a big fan of setting up cookie-cutter routines; I like to give people options so they can […]

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Total Football Training

As I’m sure many of you have noticed, San Francisco 49’ers strength coach Duane Carlisle recently released a new product titled “Total Football Training.”  I actually wrote a preliminary blog about it last Friday, which I’ll link to below: Total Football Training – An Early Review As promised, I took the time to review the […]

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Football Training

As I’m sure many of you have noticed, San Francisco 49’ers strength coach Duane Carlisle recently released a new product titled “Total Football Training.”  I actually wrote a preliminary blog about it last Friday, which I’ll link to below: Total Football Training – An Early Review As promised, I took the time to review the […]

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