To better prepare athletes for load, they must load. It must be progressed carefully, like the graph above. Soccer players must also train at a higher stress than game day, rather than doing the same, light to moderate, ad nauseam sport specific nonsense year-round. Eventually, they need to...
"Hand a girl a barbell and change her life." - Emily Neff, Female Athlete Performance Coach I couldn't agree with my colleague more. All female athletes must strength train. It's non-negotiable. Not only does strength training improve performance, it also decreases chance of ACL injury by 50%. Strength...
Home gyms exploded during COVID. In the first month of lock down, you would be hard pressed to find gym equipment left to buy on Amazon. Everyone was snagging their dumbbells, pull-up bars, resistance bands, and for the more serious lifters, full blown squat racks. There...
The bad news is this: the majority of female athletes have weak hips. Ah, glad that's out of the way now. Let's move onto some better news...
I could not be more elated. I wrote The Strong Female Athlete book because there is an immense need for evidence and experienced based education surrounding youth female athlete training - from injury reduction, to speed development, improved agility, and bolstered confidence, young girls need every...
There are a plethora of reasons and excuses parents make that prevent them from enrolling their female athletes in strength training. Let's get right into it: The Not Enough Time Excuse If girls spend an average of 4-6 hours on their mobile device a day, or if they...
This much I know: doing simple things is hard. And more often than not, the movements I am doing with my young athletes are simple. However, if they are consistent with these basic exercises for a long period of time, they are able to strengthen the total...
"Go hard or go home!" "It's all about the grind!" "If you aren't hustling you aren't winning!" I'll be honest: I'm sick of the grind culture that promotes working endless hours, being busy all the time, filling your schedule with meetings, and forgetting you have a soul. As strength...
Pulling yourself up over a bar is immensely powerful, And while you my see it as impossible, I see it as highly probable. You see, all these youth athletes complaining and blaming, While I'm over here explaining that this stuff is oh-so amazing. Yet, they be claiming as they...
While online training will vary with each coach, I'm happy to share my imperfect, chaotic journey. To put things into perspective, I started coaching in person back in 2012, and didn't go online until beginning of 2018. That's a wait of six years. So what does this mean? I'm...