In-Season Training is vital. And that is why high school athletes who are in-season must budget their time extremely well. For most competitive athletes, the time and energy commitment needed to succeed in their chosen sport is very intense and time consuming. Many athletes quickly assume they will not have... Read more

To get your athlete performing optimally we need to take a proactive approach. This helps to counteract the stress that is placed on the ankle joint. Here’s my Ankle Insurance Program for Optimal Performance against Repetitive Strain. Sports are extremely stressful to the body, and the ankle joint is no exception. Repetitive... Read more

   Warming up is a key component in preparing athletes to optimally perform in the weight room, on the practice field and most importantly competition.    One key strategy we use with our athletes is The Get Moving RAMP Warm-up. This warm-up does several important things. It addresses soft tissue... Read more

   Football coaches have plenty to focus on in practice, and proper conditioning can get lost in the shuffle    Training Time: Tim Rudd    Football season is right around the corner and that means summer football camp is going strong. So here are three of the most common conditioning... Read more

There’s a fine line between condition training and speed training. And this requires proper recovery. If athletes are going to increase their speed, quickness and agility they must train at high speeds. Many times coaches keep the drills too long and the rest too short. This simply becomes a conditioning session,... Read more

   Heart Rate Variability measurements provide invaluable data for the training process. TRAINING TIME : Tim Rudd for IYCA    Heart rate variability (HRV) has been getting a ton of press lately, and with good reason. Coaches and athletes all know that training, nutrition and recovery always has been, and... Read more

Having quickness is one thing. What if you want quickness with great body control too? When you see an athlete who is agile and quick you never forget it. They look as though they are effortlessly floating across the field or court of play. They can cut and change directions... Read more

   I think there is a misconception on what conditioning really is and how to improve it for young athletes. People tend to use words like “conditioning” and “cardio” without having a full understanding or definition of what they actually mean.    So what is conditioning?    Conditioning is a... Read more

TIM RUDD FOR IYCA  Without sound recovery practices its only a matter of time before you find your performance suffering, yourself injured or suffering from over-training. Maybe you hate stretching, don’t have time to foam roll or sleep eight hours. My response to all those excuses is “make time for... Read more

This week I’d like to share the missing link in most of your athlete’s training and sports programs that is hindering their performance and greatly increasing their chance of pain and injury.  Picture for a moment the daily stress to your athletes’ bodies. They sit in a desk all day... Read more

In my last article I discussed the importance of core stability and how vital it is for optimal force generation in sport performance and injury reduction. This week we’ll take a closer look at core training.  Core training is more than just training the abdominals, it involves a systematic and... Read more

Last week I discussed what plyometrics are and why the majority of high school athletes are wasting their time if they jump right into a high intensity plyometric program.   Now it doesn’t mean that the only thing a beginning athlete should do is strength train. It should be a... Read more