GET MENTAL: ERIKA CARLSON    Mid-season can be the perfect time to assess and reset your performance goals. If you didn’t take the time to set goals in the beginning, it’s not too late. The mid-season mark is a time to analyze your performance and set yourself up to... Read more

Get Mental: Erika Carlson    Today’s “professional model” of competitive youth sports has tremendous advantages over the former recreational sport model that most of us parents grew up with.   In regards to development, young athletes are learning more, faster and sooner than ever before. My 10-year old daughter... Read more

HEALTH WATCH: LAUREN SMALL    Concussion prevention has become a hot topic amongst everyone associated with athletics, especially parents, coaches, and medical professionals who treat adoles- cent and young athletes. While there are many devices on the market that claim to prevent concussions, there is a much less expensive,... Read more

POWERED BY TRUCKS: ANTHONY TRUCKS  Do you ever notice the big buff guys walking around the gym with their huge chests, shoulders, and arms and it looks like their shoulders are squeezing to- gether in the front? Well that’s not a good thing. What’s happening is their front pressing... Read more

TRAINING TIME: TIM RUDD  The row is a pulling exercise that is great for acceleration, throwing, pushing, pulling, per-forming other exercises, posture,shoulder health, anti-extension core stabilizers, scapular stability/mobility, grip, lats, rhomboids, and mid and lower traps “” all things that are important for increasing athletic performance in any sport.... Read more

TRI STEPS: LIZ ELLIOTT  Spring is almost here, and it’s time to make sure you have all the gear needed for training and your upcoming races. While there are always more and better items you can buy, many items are “nice to haves.” Here is a short list of... Read more

TRAINING TIME: TIM RUDD    While coaching exercises that involve the prone plank position, I utilize a five-point checklist to ensure spinal health and appropriate strengthening of posture.   The plank is a great beginner level exercise to teach spinal stability as an anti-extension and flexion exercise of the... Read more

HEAD/NECK SAFETY: Dr. Clement K. Jones     Here we are in mid-August and football season has started.    Athletes at every level “” from Pop Warner and Pee-Wee leagues to high school, college and professional teams “” are gearing up to play a game notorious for causing serious neck... Read more