3 Tips To Help You Gain Weight

If you read my previous post about weight management, you may have noticed that it was for both weight loss and weight gain and for a general population. Since I received a bunch of inquiries about more specific weight gaining tips, this post will focus on athletes...

4 Tips to Help Meet Your Bodyweight Goals

Whether you’re a competitive athlete, a meathead, or just a regular person who wants to look and feel better, you probably have some body composition goals in mind. You may want to gain 10 pounds of muscle, lose 5 pounds of fat, or change your body even more...

Pulldowns: More Than Just Running Throws

High velocity is a prerequisite to playing baseball at the professional level. In order to reach such velocity, training needs to include high effort throwing. Just like if you want to run faster you have to actually try to run faster, you can’t just jog and hope for...

Best of 2018

As we look forward to 2019, many of you are putting together goals for the new year and with that comes new programs. These articles may help give you some programming considerations as you plan for 2019. Here’s a look back at some of my most popular articles from...

Setting Young Athletes Up for Long Term Success

All great athletes have a desire to improve, and they have a sense of urgency about it. One of the keys to consistently progressing throughout your athletic career is balancing that sense of urgency with patience. This is especially important for beginners. Many...

Why My Throwers Don’t Barbell Bench Press

Training programs for throwers often do not include barbell bench and overhead pressing. I’ve heard several coaches complain about this programing, saying that throwers are babied too much in the weight room, and that throwers are more resilient than we think....