Youth Sports Performance
In every style of training, coaches and athletes tend to hold onto common trains of thoughts as if they are golden rules. Today, we’re breaking down some of the misconceptions we’ve heard about speed training. Myth #1: You’re Slow Because You’re Weak. In certain situations, this may make sense, but let’s think of our typical …
Each day we receive questions about training speed. So we’ve taken those questions that we hear the most and answered them in a slightly different format. 1. Static stretching prepares you to compete/practice Static stretching actually reduces power output. Athletes should prepare for practice by doing a dynamic warm up that moves from basic, low …
Parisi Performance Coach, Adam Bossard of Parisi Fair Lawn, share shares his insight on why traditional training methods sometimes get overlooked for “the next best thing”… and why coaches need to stop doing this!
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For the sake of this article we are going to assume that both of our athletes have zero red flags, no pain, no previous injury history, and no reason to refer them to a medical practitioner. Congratulations, Coach! You’ve made it to part three! In part one, we identified what mobility really is and introduced …
Creating Mobile Monsters: Part 3 – Controlling Range of MotionRead More
For the sake of this article we are going to assume that both of our athletes have zero red flags, no pain, no previous injury history, and no reason to refer them to a medical practitioner. More times than not, we see two different types of athletes – one athlete that is a modern-age ‘Gumby’ …
Creating Mobile Monsters: Part 2 – The Role of IsometricsRead More
Coach Khalil Harrison, Parisi Franklin Lakes, shares his tips and tricks on mentally building his athletes so they can perform better physically.
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Active Dynamic Warm Up
Many coaches believe that acceleration and top speed training are entirely different. Maximum velocity training can be seen as something super complicated and hard, but if we look at it from a different lens, the application of force, and what’s happening from the hip, knee and ankle is not really that much different. I’d even …
For many years, mobility and flexibility were synonymous terms. How do you sit lower in a squat? Work on your hip mobility. Developing anterior knee pain? Get your hamstrings more flexible. Stretch this, mobilize that. It was largely viewed as the same thing; make whatever it is that is ‘tight’ move better. Defining ‘mobility’ Let’s …
Creating Mobile Monsters: Part 1 – Identifying Where to StartRead More
