Optimizing Recovery
Optimizing recovery is crucial for athletes who want to enhance performance, reduce the risk of injury, and maintain overall well-being. Every athlete should consider incorporating a few recovery techniques into their training routine. Massage: Regular massages help...
ACL Rehabilitation Goals: Stage 3
Let’s continue to stage three of ACL Rehab and discuss some of the general goals we set for the athlete through their rehab program. Stage three is typically when the patient starts feeling more like an athlete. They have progressed to jogging by now, they have...
ACL Rehabilitation Goals: Stage 2
Let's continue to stage 2 of ACL Rehab and discuss some of the general goals we set for the athlete through their rehab program. Stage 2 is usually where we see patients turn a corner for the better. They’ve regained most of their range of motion, their pain and...
ACL Rehabilitation Goals: Stage 1
If you follow sports at all, you hear about them all the time: ACL tears, a devastating blow to any athlete’s season. We see them go down, we know it’s something in the knee, we hear that they have surgery, and then we hope to see them back out on the field in a year....
How To Improve Your Speed
Most sports come down to one component: speed. If you cannot perform in your sport quickly, then it will be extremely challenging to excel. To train for speed, it needs to be done with 100% effort. Here are two quick tips on how to improve your speed. #1 - Speed=...
Key Training Tips for the Post Season
As the season begins to wind down and playoffs are around the corner, it’s time to take a look at your training and recovery program and see if you need to modify it. The season can be very demanding on athletes with practices, lessons, games, tournaments, travel, and...
The Importance of Healthy Hamstrings
It’s getting late in the season and we all have muscle aches and pains from all the games and practices we put ourselves in. If you find yourself in a situation of having chronically sore hamstrings, it is most likely that you do not need more hamstring...
5 Reasons Every Athlete Needs An Athletic Trainer
We would like to highlight a recent social media post from "A Safer Approach" of the National Athletic Trainers' Association regarding athletic trainers. This information allows a better understanding of how beneficial and important the role of athletic trainers is...
3 Healthy Habits to Improve Your Performance
As athletes, everyone has habits in their daily schedules that they have developed over years of experience in sports. However, the big determining factor is whether these habits are benefiting you as an athlete or not. Here are 3 healthy habits that are guaranteed to...
Isometric Testing with the PeakForce Device
Isometric testing is a great tool for measuring muscle strength and force development. In this post, we'll explore the significance of isometric strength testing and highlight specific measurements provided by the PeakForce device, including mid-thigh pull strength,...
New Year, New Goals
As the new year comes around, many people are talking about their New Year's resolutions. This is a great time to talk about goal setting for athletes. Goal setting is a practice that many athletes forget about, but is something that can often be a good motivator and...
Getting Ready to be a College Athlete
As the spring rolls around, many high school seniors prepare to embark on the next part of their athletic journey: college athletics. However, as this time comes around, many finish their last seasons as a high school athlete, which comes with a list of questions...