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Johnny Parker, Al Miller & Rob Panariello
In The System, the authors lay the foundation for a scientifically based, field-tested, and effective system of training using periodization with sport ath...
Greg Dea: Feedback and Cueing – Making Them Work Together
When coaching, we decide if a movement is satisfactory or not. That means it’s also up to us to decide which coaching strategies of feedback and cueing to use to change the individual...
Gray Cook: Core Stability, Compensation and Breathing
Lacking core stability? Then you’re likely down on power. Here’s how Gray Cook discerns if it’s a breathing sequence problem.
Thomas Plummer: Fitness Professionals Only Have Two Speeds
Fitness professionals only have two speeds in their internal motors: full on, flat out and all in, or destroyed on the couch, drooling like an old bulldog, and often not smelling much b...
Sue Falsone: Scapula, Shoulder and Cervical Thoracic Junction Drill
Your clients likely carry tension in their shoulders, where it’s hard to manually relax them without activating something else. Try this simple drill from Sue Falsone to get them to l...
Taylor Lewis: Communication — The Missing Key Between Performance and Rehab
Why is it so hard to bridge the gap between rehab and performance? Taylor Lewis proposes a few methods to improve communication between exercise specialists and the doctors, nurses, phy...
Mark Cheng: Movement Starts with Breathing
Any discussion of fundamental movement starts with breathing. If the breathing is not correct, the body is rejecting whatever you’re trying to teach it. Mark Cheng demonstrates a simp...
Maggie Selzer & Garrett Bullock: What is Motor Control?
When you use the term “motor control,” you know what you mean. But do you know what motor control means to your listener? To your colleagues? What is motor control and why is it so ...
Gray Cook: There Are Things You Shouldn’t Coach
The best coaches know what not to coach. They know that there are training setbacks and injuries that limit them. But at any given time on the training continuum, they also know the thi...
Dan John: Wandering Weights, Issue # 200
Dan John's Wandering Weights: Our Epic Journey Through All Things Heavy, Issue # 200
Brian Gwaltney: The Tangential Model of Periodization
How would an engineer look at strength and conditioning? Brian Gwaltney uses a unique background to look at how theories of periodization work out in real life.