by Dave Hollinger The recommendation to have meat and nuts for breakfast was first introduced to me by world renowned strength coach Charles Poliquin. At first it didn’t sound appealing,…
The Breakfast of Champions
Structural Balance
by Dave Hollinger Throughout your athletic career, muscle imbalances unique to your sport will naturally develop from tightness, old injuries and overuse on the field. These imbalances lead to faulty…
STRONGMAN Training for Football
By Dave Hollinger Forget about running 300 yard shuttles or 110 yard sprints for football. Training for these common football conditioning tests are counterproductive to the development of strength, speed…
Bringing the Heat
What grabs the attention of scouts and coaches during a showcase? HEAT! The infamous radar gun has helped and hurt players earn roster spots, scholarships, and improve their draft stock. If that reading does not catch their eye forget it, more than likely you won’t get a second look.
RUNNING BACKWARDS: Training Yourself Off The Mound
Baseball has always been behind the times in the training world. Performing only band work as their form of strength training, claiming weights would make them too tight or bulky and running long distances because pitchers need “endurance” to pitch. All this couldn’t be further from the truth. Let’s drop this old school mentality. It’s hurting baseball players.
Platform Tennis Conditioning
John Sandberg, Performance Coach at Chicago Sports Institute, was recently published in the Platform Tennis magazine, discussing sport preparation and injury prevention for platform tennis.
How to Prevent Hamstring Pulls
As training camp came to a close for the NFL there was one thing that stood out to me this preseason: Hamstring pulls were spreading through NFL training camps like…
Triple Threat
In sport, a “triple threat” is when an athlete is strong across three fronts. Having such a diverse skill set makes a person a formidable competitor. In cycling, the triple…
Stay Strong All Season Long: Your Guide to In-Season Training
When I reevaluate players who haven’t trained throughout the season, I come across several issues. Typically, players have lost weight, size, strength, power, and developed structural imbalances or been sidelined…
Injury Without Contact: ACL injuries and what you can do to prevent them
This Fall there have been a rash of season ending ACL injuries in the NFL. 45 injuries in 8 weeks to be exact, and the majority have been non-contact. In…