In today’s world, children are being exposed to training and athletics very early-on in life. This early exposure should benefit children giving them healthy lifestyle tools, improved physical and emotional well-being, along with a positive social environment to grow and develop. To ensure that training and athletics becomes this positive experience for youth athletes, there …
Top Speed Drill: A-March, A-Skip and A-Run
The key to developing top speed is an understanding of leg recovery. Check out Founder, Bill Parisi, sharing this fundamental drill to improve speed.
Dr. Stuart McGill: Understanding How to Build a Progressive Strength Program for Speed
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Position Yourself for Success
I started Strength and Conditioning coaching back in 1998 as a personal trainer. I started coaching college rugby back in 2002. My coaching career led me to start and coach a high school team for ten years. During that time in the high school, I also did dryland coaching for some of the winter sports …
6 Mandatory Strength Movements
If you do the six major compound movements – the squat, hip hinge, vertical press, vertical pull, horizontal press, and horizontal pull – you’re bound to see success. These are the movement patterns every complete workout program contains. Problem is, not every variation is best for everybody. Just because a movement looks good on paper …
Fire Up Your CNS For Better Lifting
This is a great way to begin any lifting workout. The idea behind “rate of force development” is to do an exercise that’s explosive in nature and that utilizes all of the body’s major muscle groups. Doing an explosive exercise prior to lifting fires up your central nervous system and gets your body physically ready …
Don’t Short Change the Warm Up
One play, one hit, one rep is all it takes for an athlete to become injured. One of the ways to help prepare ourselves for sport, or for training, is with a warm up. Unfortunately, while the warm up is one of the most important things an athlete can do, time and again, I see …
Unilateral vs. Bilateral Training
For over a decade now, fitness pros have been arguing about unilateral and bilateral training. As a refresher, unilateral means “one side” or “one limb.” Think of a one-arm dumbbell bench press. Bilateral means using both arms or both legs, like a standard barbell bench press or squat. Which one should you put your focus …
10 Tips for Your Best Combine Performance
These combine training tips come straight to you from Parisi Speed School founder, Bill Parisi, and NFL Combine Director and owner of Parisi Speed School Fair Lawn, Rich Sadiv. Parisi Training Systems has produced more top combine ranking athletes than any other organization. Our 25 years of experience and training has produced over 135 NFL …
The Secret to Speed ISN’T Your Legs
When people think of getting faster they think of legs, but speed is directly related to what you do with your arms. The arms stabilize your torso which lets power efficiently transfer through your hips and legs. The tempo of your arms controls the action of your feet. Increasing the speed of a correct arm …
Single Leg Wall Drive
We’ve all seen the wall drive drill, and hopefully our athletes have performed it at home. A newer variation of the wall drive, the single leg wall drive, focuses on back leg extension and glute engagement during the acceleration phase. Back leg extension during the sprint in probably the most under-looked aspect of increasing speed. …
3 Things You Can Do To Get Faster In The Weightroom
Life is full of timeless debates…. Which came first? The chicken or the egg? Peanut butter and jelly? Or Jelly with peanut butter? Is Pizza a pie? Obviously it is, so is quiche a pie? Crusts…fillings….now I’m making you think! Did Dez Bryant catch the ball? Now I’m just being a bitter Cowboys’ fan! …
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