The latest buzzword is corrective exercise. Is corrective exercise the latest fad like “drawing in “ was a few years ago? What exactly is corrective exercise? I think I know, but it is a misleading concept. What exactly are you correcting? It sounds to me like another reductionist approach to the human body based on pseudo scientific principles and marketing. The exercises that I see labeled a [...]

Many current gurus provide sample speed/power plans that recommend volumes of speed/power elements that I find paltry for the majority of situations. I think a lot of this bias can be traced back to incomplete backgrounds heavily centered toward the force end of the force/velocity curve (weightroom centric strength and conditioning backgrounds, heavily powerlifting based backgrounds, etc..) If [...]

My training center has recently started a golf fitness training program and I've been looking to purchase some equipment for the TPI professional who will be overseeing our program. In doing so, I've stumbled across some videos that I couldn't help but laugh at. These things were like a bus full of burning nuns....you don't want to look but you just can't tear your eyes away from the horrific [...]

Carl,Had a question for you. I hear all these gurus talking about activating the glutes prior to exercise or turn the glutes on or get them firing is the usual response given for these drills. Are the glutes ever “turned off”?? will they not fire under load (i.e sprinting, squatting, etc.) or is it more of a timing issue like Al Vermeil talks about with Comerfords stuff and the TA-Transverse [...]

Does it really matter what exercises the championship hockey did last year? What relevance does what they did have to what you are doing? Are you coaching the same athletes? One of the biggest pitfalls in all of this is the monkey see, monkey do syndrome – so and so is the world record holder, we saw a picture of him or her doing squats on a physioball therefore to be a world record holder we ne [...]

The open source project is creating a Knowledge Base that is shared with other coaches and requires collaboration. Often materials and resources are expensive, and not all coaches have the money to spend on inflated projects. I am with efforts of several members here on the this forum will make content open source so that it's free to those that need materials and raw information. I have protecte [...]

"A lot of things weren't firing -- his glutes, his hips, thighs," (Training Guru to the star players – name deleted to protect the guilty) told the newspaper. "I wouldn't say his condition was the most severe, I wouldn't say it was the best. ... But if I were to classify it on a scale of one to 10 with 10 being the most extreme, I'd say he was definitely in the seven, eight category." T [...]

Corrective exercises have their place in training but I have not seen enough results in evidence with real case studies to believe that some thera tubing and activation drills will fix injuries. Corrective exercises are often done during "rehab" periods, or periods when athletes are reducing training loads, stop competing or training, and paired with conventional methods, making one wonder what [...]

I do believe some coaches have extensive data over the years and those patterns and trends found are valuable. I am not a believer in unpublished research by "eastern bloc" countries as their results are very clearly "published" at international meets. If the results are not statistically supra- normal why bother researching what they were doing and panning for secrets? Statistically the Russi [...]

I'm lucky enough to be able to work with a large group of pro and amateur fighters from Ground Control MMA Baltimore. O lifts help the fighters train to explode into opponents, lift them up, and take them down. Because MMA is a weight-class sport, the weight used during O lifts should be roughly the same as the weight class the fighter competes in. If a fighter can clean 1.5 times his body weight [...]