Exercise
5 Simple Knee Injury Prevention Exercises
It’s easy to take your knees for granted. They support your entire body and allow you to take thousands of steps every day. For athletes, they withstand the stress of [...]
4 Non-Deadlift Exercises to Increase Your Deadlift Strength
If you want to get better at your sport, building a good base of strength is paramount. To paraphrase Mark Bell, "Strength is never a weakness."...
10 Highly Effective Deadlift Variations
10 deadlift variations: conventional and non-convetional It's no secret, the deadlift is one of the best exercises out there. If you're trying to put...
Build Explosive Power with Box Squats
Build Power with Box Squats By Jim Carpentier, CSCS Keep doing traditional Barbell Squats (and Deadlifts) in or near the Squat rack to stimulate lower...
Is Travis Kelce More Athletic than Rob Gronkowski?
The NFL has gone high-tech. New for the 2015 season, every player has a tracker embedded in his shoulder pads that collects data like velocity, distance traveled and proximity to [...]
Cam Newton’s Workout
When Cam Newton unleashes a rocket-powered pass or zooms by a hapless defender, his athleticism looks effortless. But the reason it looks easy on the field is because of the [...]
Build Healthy Shoulders With 5 Rotator Cuff-Strengthening Exercises
The rotator cuff consists of four small muscles - infraspinatus, supraspinatus, subscapularus, teres minor - that help to stabilize the shoulder joint...
The Strength and Endurance Plyo Box Workout
A Plyo Box Workout for Peak Sports Performance By Jim Carpentier, CSCS The plyo box is a common and convenient sports conditioning tool for building...
What to Do if You Experience Shoulder Pain When You Bench Press
The bench press and shoulder press are perhaps the two exercises most likely to cause pain within the shoulder. Being that these are also two of the...
Meet the PCL, The Lesser-Known Knee Ligament That’s Keeping NFL Players on the Sidelines
What do Andre Ellington, Eric Decker, Kyle Williams and Breshad Perriman have in common? Each of these NFL stars has been dealing with a PCL injury in the 2015 NFL [...]
