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TOOLS TO BECOME A BETTER ATHLETE

Improve your T-Spine rotation with Coach Chris Rice

For both adult and performance athletes improving your T-Spine rotation is worth the effort. Check out this drill from Coach Chris Rice

Practicing Extreme Ownership and Finding Your “Why”: The Key to Long-term Success

By Tim Hanway MS CSCS ACSM In today’s day and age, most people have become familiar with the ‘SMART’ goal system. This stands for Specific, Measurable Attainable Realistic Time based The common knowledge shared is that as long as

How to get an edge: better recovery between soccer games

Part of being a fit soccer player is providing your body with the means to perform at 100 percent. A solid recovery plan means you will be able to train harder, maintain peak performance longer and prevent injury.

3 Foods to Avoid Before a Workout

Food is what fuels your human machine, so choosing the right kind of fuel can go a long way towards optimizing your performance. This article focuses on things to avoid before your workout.

Tips to help you eat better when you travel

Travel is a necessary component of competitive sports that can start as early as middle school. When you’re on the road, all the careful planning and meal prep you do at home to guarantee your body gets all the nutrition it needs for optimal performance suddenly disappears.

Do athletes need a bigger engine or better brakes?

If you’re an explosive athlete who can’t change direction quickly, then you probably need better breaks. If your top speed blows away your competition but it takes you too long to get there, then maybe you need a more powerful engine. The first step is to assess where you are now and where you need to be.

TRAINING: 3 drills to help you stop on a dime

Almost every sport is about more than just running fast or a huge vertical. Pick one, and we’ll bet that most of the action happens around changing direction. For the majority of the athletes with whom we work at Velocity around the country, this means they have to be just as good at stopping as they are at starting.

Be safe! Bulletproof Your Shoulders For Baseball

Its springtime and that means it’s time for Baseball and Softball. Players and coaches know that maintaining shoulder health is important for these sports, but they don’t always know what to do about it. Use these simple exercises to bulletproof

Meditation to optimize your life and performance

In order to avail yourself of the many benefits of meditation, we believe it’s important not to remain intellectually and emotionally open to the wide variety of meditative practices found throughout our world’s cultures, religions, and philosophies. What is important is that the methods you choose work for you.

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