Tweet Here’s this week’s list of recommended strength and conditioning reading: Elite Training Mentorship – My in-service this month talked a lot about the business of fitness and how we developed our baseball niche. I also uploaded a few articles and exercise demonstrations to complement the contributions from the rest …
Tweet One of the more profound realizations any fitness professional can make is that not all clients and athletes learn the exact same way. Some athletes simply need to be told what to do. Others can just observe an exercise to learn it. Finally, there are those who need to …
Tweet Here’s this week’s list of recommended strength and conditioning reading: Some Thoughts on Crossfit – I thought Patrick Ward did an excellent job writing up this post, which features a review of a recent study performed on the efficacy of Crossfit. Elite Training Mentorship – In this month’s update, …
Tweet Today marks the fifth installment of a series that looks at the coaching cues we use at Cressey Performance. Here are three more cues we find ourselves using with our athletes all the time. 1. Move the hands in or out to improve your deadlift technique. When you’re learning …
Tweet Here are this week’s list of recommended strength and conditioning reads: Eric Cressey on Specialized Training for Baseball Players – I was recently interviewed by New England Baseball Journal on managing the training of baseball players, and what advice I’d give to up-and-coming players. Elite Training Mentorship – In …
Tweet To wrap up my “Best of 2012″ series, I’ll highlight the top product reviews I did at this site in the last year. 1. Deadlift Dynamite – This product was a great fit for me to review not only because I’m particularly fond of picking heavy s**t up off …
Tweet Yesterday, a reporter for MLB.com came by Cressey Performance to interview a few of our major leaguers. While there, he asked me my take on whether or not I thought players’ off-season preparation changes dramatically from year to year. My answer was something to the effect of: The fitness …
Tweet Here’s this week’s list of recommended strength and conditioning reading: Elite Training Mentorship – I normally post my updates here once a month, but this month, it’s especially exciting, as we’re running at “30 days for $1″ trial at ETM, and as a bonus for signing up, you get …
Tweet The squat is one of the most revered strength training exercises of all time, and the front squat is a popular variation on this compound lift. However, like many lifts, it’s often performed incorrectly, and in many cases used by folks for whom it isn’t a good fit. To …
Tweet Here’s this week’s list of recommended strength and conditioning reading: Elite Training Mentorship – In addition to the fantastic contributions from the likes of Mike Robertson, Dave Schmitz, Tyler English, and Vaughn Bethell, I have an in-service on frontal and transverse plane power development. This covers a lot of …