Making small Tweaks to your fitness program can give you BIG results!

Eat less sugar and processed foods…drink more water
Do less long-distance running…choose more specific sprint work
Add mobility training to your program
Learn the Turkish Get-Up
Master body weight movements before getting under a bar

If you REALLY Tweak your program with all 5 — you’ll be amazed at [...]

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Overtraining…

March 1, 2010

Many times I hear, “I’m not lifting that much…how could I be over trained?”  This question pops up more around pre-season while athletes are conditioning and still lifting as they were in the off-season.  So how much is too much in regards to overtraining?  That depends on so many factors, but my point today is [...]

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Pre-Season Strength & Conditioning

January 3, 2010

The question keeps coming up regarding the “best” strength and conditioning program to do in the off and into pre-season.   The answer is anything but “one size fits all” — it should be specific to each athlete.  With that said, it’s kinda hard to be specific with a team of 45 athletes.  In the following [...]

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Lacrosse — Strength and Condtioning

November 16, 2009

Strength
You could use almost any sport here, but since most of my time is spent developing lacrosse players (MS-College girls), we’ll stick with lacrosse. Anyone that’s been around me for more than 10 minutes has heard me say that strength training plays a huge role in increasing the ability to produce force, power [...]

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Nutrition Leading Up To Competition — Take Home Messages

October 9, 2009

1) Assuming you’re following the Precision Nutrition
recommendations, there is usually no need to alter your typical
food selections leading up to a competition. Although your food
volume may vary, you should simply continue to eat the same way
you do at home (or as close to it as possible).
2) If your energy levels are waning during [...]

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Pre Competition and Competition Nutrition

October 9, 2009

“Coach, what do I eat before the game…and practices?”
I hear this from athletes, parents and coaches…thing is, there is so much bad information out there that it’s hard to know what’s legit or not. I’ve been reading articles by Dr. John Berardi for some time now, but when I got a hold of his [...]

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She didn’t know she didn’t know…

July 23, 2009

The other day a woman asked me why both my girls (14/15) are in the gym so much, I guess she noticed them a few times over the past couple of weeks.  She asked me if I thought it was a good idea that they were un-supervised in the weight room, AND — did I [...]

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Do I really need to warm-up?

July 21, 2009

Most would agree that a warm-up of some kind is a good idea.  Where people get bent out of shape is the how to, when to, and what type of stretching to do before or after an event.   Some swear by “Dynamic” only, while others still tell us to do static before we participate in [...]

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Exercises, reps and progressions…oh my!

July 14, 2009

Every exercise and rep should be done for a reason…duh! Perfect reps are the only reps to do…as a matter of fact, if one of our athletes cannot perform a perfect rep, we consider that going to failure, and stop the set whether it’s in the gym or on the field or court. [...]

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In the gym today…

June 29, 2009

I see all kinds of stuff (exercises, good and bad technique, great and horrible drills and a few things I’d rather not mention) in the gym, on the field as well as online. Starting today I’ll be sharing what I see and obviously commenting on possibly a better way, or how cool something is [...]

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Welcome

May 13, 2009

Welcome to Fit 2 Play, please bear with us while we get a makeover!

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