This video is why we need more strength coaches sharing what to do and less PTs giving us insight on power. This is not real power. Power is measured and what is being shared (single arm exercises with light loads) can't do anything for increasing power with athletes unless they are truly untrained. I can't imagine a running back at a D1 program going through the hole explosively from the traini [...]

Due to the large increases of "pleasant" emails and forwarded replies from others to my inbox I will share my thoughts on the current material proposed by Mike Boyle and Gray Cook. Since this is business and I have nothing personally against Mike and Gray I will focus on the information proposed by them in order to keep things fair. Some of Mike's material is fantastic and I suggest being part [...]

The Functional Movement Screen is an assessment that got a lot of heat a few years when Vern and Mike Boyle argued about it's effectiveness. My stance is closer to Vern's as Mike's responses were not very convincing. I was exposed to the FMS years ago when manuals were actually in paper format and experts were older than college graduates. During that time I was reading everything in the office [...]

Mike Boyle send me this rebuttal to my post on the Functional Movement Screen. It is good and though provoking. I still do not agree, but it is good to have diversity of opinion - Vern First let me state that one of my best early sources of education was Vern Gambetta. Vern was a man ahead of his time and was one of the early proponents of what is now called functional training. With that said, [...]

The movement screen developed by Gray Cook has become the newest screen of choice. I admire the hard work he put into developing the screen, but I question the value of the screen. Just because it is measureable does not make it functional. The tests in the screen do not give much information that I can translate to actual athletic movements. They all seem to be ends unto themselves. I know many p [...]

There is some current thought out on limiting or eliminating rotational movements from warm-up, specifically movements that involve the lumbar spine. Apparently the basic premise is that the function of the lumbar spine is to stabilize and limit ROM greater than 5 degrees. This comes from Gray Cooks and Shirley Sahrmann research and work. Sahrmann says "The ability to resist or to prevent rot [...]