To instill positive physical change, the body must be challenged beyond the current comfort level.  Athletes and trainers must all commit to engage in this style of workout to maximize athletic training results and also guarantee safety.  Coaches and trainers must be fully engaged using a critical mechanical eye that instantly corrects errors using well established cueing techniques and demands precision over repetition.  Interesting exercises gain much greater adherence than simple repetitious exercises.   Safe interes...Read more

Many sports directly draw upon balance for skill execution. Snowboarders and skiers make endless adjustments relative to changing terrain, jumps and tricks, requiring a highly trained balance system to make their body more reactive to unpredictable events. The joy of the sport is exploring how to coordinate the body to become more competent at increasingly more difficult technical maneuvers. Fitness and strength are only useful if they are developed with an exercise style that actually improves the physical tools game action draws upon. Integra...Read more

The evolution of athlete training and conditioning established roots in individual sports where coaches turned to physical development to get the most out of each athlete's performance. Individual sports like track sprinting found they could benefit from enhanced leg strength and power. Head coaches were the first trainers of athletes, taking them into the weight room with an eye on improving performance.The systems and strategies in sports such as football, cricket and tennis can best be described as organized chaos; during competition no ...Read more

The sport skills of kicking a football, swinging a tennis racket, shooting a hockey ball, getting air and spin on snowboards, spiking a volleyball, driving a golf ball and hitting a baseball are all dependent on a highly developed torso capable of explosive rotation.  There is a sports training paradox that most exercise professionals, with their good intention of ensuring core exercises are safe, prescribe very limited exercises that ultimately under prepare their clients for sport demands and actually set them up to be injured. In t...Read more