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Bill Hartman on Building a Powerful and Pain-Free Body after 40
Bill Hartman is known for finding solution for people in pain that have failed with other forms of treatment. He’s the owner of IFAST Physical Therapy, and my business partner at Indianapolis Fitness and Sports Training. He’s also the author of the upcoming book, All Gain – No Pain: The Over 40 Comeback Guide to […]
Continue Reading3 Simple Ways to Classify Your Unilateral Exercises
As trainers and coaches, we love to classify our exercises. We have our quad dominant and hip dominant lifts. We have horizontal and vertical pressing and pulling. And of course, we’ve got elbow flexion and extension, because we have to find a way to make arm training sound sophisticated, right? But when it comes to […]
Continue ReadingNick Littlehales on Optimizing Sleep to Maximize Performance
Nick Littlehales is an International elite sports sleeping recovery coach, and regarded as a leading industry expert with over 30 years’ experience in the world of sleep, sleeping habits and sleeping product design. He’s recognized as the world’s first ever sports sleep coach with over 17 years dedicated to elite sport and elite athletes. Now that I’ve […]
Continue Reading20 Tips for Young Coaches
This week’s episode of the podcast is going to be – how do I describe it – a bit different. It all started with one simple question: If you could give one piece of advice to a young coach or trainer, what would it be? This had been buzzing around in my brain for a few […]
Continue ReadingKeir Wenham-Flatt on How to Build an Elite Rugby Athlete
Keir Wenham-Flatt is a rugby strength & conditioning specialist and founder of www.rugbystrengthcoach.com, the web’s #1 resource for rugby strength & conditioning information. Currently the Head of Strength & Conditioning for Toshiba Brave Lupus in the Japanese Top League, Keir has worked with seven professional rugby teams on four different continents. This includes Los Pumas Argentina […]
Continue Reading10 Physical Prep Summit Takeaways
It’s hard to believe, but the 2017 Physical Prep Summit is in the books! This is event is the culmination of six months of blood, sweat and tears, so it’s always bittersweet after we wrap up. However, I wanted to do a little write-up here to pull it all together. And this is a pretty […]
Continue ReadingBrandon Marcello on Life as a Performance Strategist and Consultant
Dr. Brandon Marcello has nearly 20 years experience in the performance enhancement industry. As a high-performance strategist, he takes forward-thinking organizations and elite athletes to the next level of their game – and careers. Having extensive involvement in both the applied and research worlds, he has implemented successful, high performance training programs for professional, Olympic and collegiate […]
Continue Reading5 Keys to Training Success
(Lead photo courtesy of Lance Goyke) In April of 2005, I was the strongest I’d ever been in my entire life. I’d been competing in the sport of powerlifting for five years, and had just squatted 530 pounds, bench pressed 335, and deadlifted 535. But as the saying goes, life was a lot simpler then! […]
Continue ReadingMike Irr on Winning an NBA Championship
Mike Irr recently completed his 2nd season with the Golden State Warriors as their Head Strength & Conditioning Coach. Overall, Mike has seven years of NBA experience, having previously served as Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Charlotte Bobcats from 2008-11 and as Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Chicago Bulls from 2006-08. […]
Continue ReadingOnline Coaching: Past, Present and Future
Online coaching (or online personal training) is something that I’ve done since 2006. And to be quite honest, I kind of fell into the whole thing. I was writing fairly regularly for T-nation at the time, and an avid reader named Mark (who lived in Japan) reached out to see if I could write training […]
Continue ReadingMike Ranfone on Training the High School and Collegiate Athlete
Mike Ranfone is the founder and president of Ranfone Training Systems located in Hamden, Connecticut, and for the past decade he’s dedicated himself to improving athletes as a performance coach and manual therapist. Mike is one of those guys that I’ve heard about for years, but had never actually crossed paths with, so I was […]
Continue ReadingSetting up for Speed: Base, Balance and Angles
Over the past five years, I’ve made a concerted effort to become a better coach of speed and agility exercises. I’ve read books, purchased products, and actively sought out some of the best speed coaches in the world. Just looking back at our own seminars here at IFAST, we’ve brought in Boo Schexnayder, Lee Taft, […]
Continue ReadingMike Young Discusses Everything Plyometrics
Mike Young is the Director of Performance and Research at the Athletic Lab, an athletic training facility in Cary, North Carolina. Whether it’s his work with track and field athletes, classifying plyometrics, or training soccer players, Mike is a guy who I’ve truly enjoyed learning from for years. In this show, Mike and I discuss […]
Continue ReadingShould You Tweak Your Stance for Squats and Deadlifts?
Note from MR: Dean Somerset reminds me of, well, me back in the day. There was a 5-10 year stretch were I was obsessive about functional anatomy. Nowadays, it’s not that I’m not that into it – but there’s just so much other stuff to cover, I can’t obsess about it like I used to! […]
Continue ReadingDarcy Norman Reflects on His First Two Years with AS Roma Soccer Club
Darcy Norman is the Director of Performance for Serie A club AS Roma. Prior to his stint with the club, he’s also spent time at Bayern Munich, and won a world cup as the fitness coach for the German National team. So yeah – in the soccer world, Darcy is a pretty big deal! In […]
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