Recent Posts From Our Academies
The Light vs. Heavy Weight Strength Debate…
A recent study in the published in the Journal of Applied Physiology raised the idea that lifting light loads (30% of 1RM) to failure can be just as beneficial to strength development as lifting heavy loads to failure. At AthleteFIT we have seen very similar results over the last decade with our younger or less … Read More >
ACL Series: Case Study and Results
The subject of this case study is a 15 year old high school female soccer player who had just suffered her second ACL tear in a eight month period. Her first injury, in October of 2010, was to the right ACL and her second injury, in June of 2011, was to the left ACL. Her … Read More >
ACL Series: Return to Confidence (Post Surgery)
Even with the best programming for risk reduction, ACL injuries still happen. And when they do, it is the responsibility of the therapist or performance coach to rebuild the athlete’s confidence as well as their strength.
Quite often, there is a lack of confidence or the physiological factor that contributes to the athlete’s ability to return … Read More >
ACL Series: Programming Phases to Reduce Risk
Programming for Risk Reduction and Improved Performance:
There are many programs out there that have been shown to reduce the risk of injury when used in the pre-season. But… “Results suggest that training duration may be an important factor to consider when designing injury prevention programs that facilitate long-term changes in movement control (Padua, 2011). … Read More >
ACL Series: Risk Factors
Over the past few years much of the research, including a recent review (Bien, 2011) named the several biomechanical/neuromuscular risk factors for non-contact ACL injury, as well as the most effective programming implementations for prevention. Here are the area’s we focus on in our program model:
Hip and Knee Pathomechanics
Hamstring Activation and Strength Deficits
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ACL Series: From Rehab to Risk Reduction
Annually in the US alone there are over 80,000 ACL tears occurring primarily in athletes 15-25 years of age that participate in sports that require aggressive pivot based movements (Griffin, 2000). In the past 12 years we have had over 3000 female athletes come through our program, and in that time we have seen 11 … Read More >
PowerFIT/SpeedFIT: Off Season Week 4 – Basic Exercise Video
As you know, our PowerFIT/Speed/FIT program is a seasonal progression that challenges the athlete to improve each week as we build off a foundation of basic movement into explosive speed/agility and fitness:
From a conditioning standpoint we are using the Cybex Arc Trainers in the first two phases (months) and then our focus shifts to the … Read More >
Vertical Progression: Plyometric Assessment – Video 5
This is the fifth post in our series reviewing the Fusion Sport – SmartJump System. In this post we will be highlighting the systems ability to educate the player while assessing plyometric efficiency.
Plyometric training is an often misunderstood and poorly taught aspect of jump training. The problem isn’t always the coach’s knowledge of plyometric ability, … Read More >
