Posts in Athletic Development Resources

Grooving New Movement Patterns

Over the last several years, I’ve become a strong believer in developing individual-specific ideal movement patterns both to improve performance and to minimize injury risk. I have to put the “individual-specific” disclaimer in there to highlight the fact that everyone’s joint anatomy is a little different and you can’t always expect the exact same movement […]

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Mike Robertson on Single-Leg vs. Double-Leg Training

Hopefully you’ve taken a chance to check out the review I did of Mike Robertson’s new manual/DVD The Single-Leg Solution. I asked Mike if he’d go into some detail for you about some of the differential benefits between single- and double-leg exercises. Check out what he had to say: Now that I’m officially pegged as […]

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Sub-Clinical Hockey Injuries?

Last week, Eric Cressey put up a few great posts on an issue that I think everyone working in the human performance arena should be aware of. You can check them out here: Preventing Lower Back Pain: Assuming is Okay Healthy Shoulders with Terrible MRIs? Who Kneeds Normal Knees? Despite the last title, these three […]

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Rate of Force Development and Explosive Lifts

The other day I got an email with a quesiton from someone that had just read an article I had written a while back for EliteFTS: Rapid Rate of  Force Development He asked: “Based on the information in the article, and relating this to a power clean/hang clean, would this then explain that a power […]

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Joint vs. Muscular Restriction

Over the past couple weeks at Endeavor, we’ve had a bunch of new and prospective athletes come through our doors. When I teach new people our warm-up, the words “mobility” or “mobilization” come up repeatedly. Mobility is a term frequently used to describe one of two things: The ability for a bone to move (e.g. […]

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