by Tyler Anzmann | Sep 18, 2018 | Fitness
Strength and conditioning coaches can benefit greatly from training hard and competing. This may serve to legitimize them more in the eyes of their athletes. Their own training offers them an opportunity to try alternate training techniques themselves before...
by Tyler Anzmann | Sep 11, 2018 | Fitness
Why CrossFit is Wrong for Non-Fitness Athletes CrossFit is an awesome sport, but it’s just that…a SPORT, not a training modality for competitive athletes. CrossFit does many things that other sports could learn from, such as the competitive and supportive...
by Tyler Anzmann | Sep 5, 2018 | Fitness
Pitchers Don’t NEED To Run…At All Pitchers and running have gone together for a long time, but luckily, thanks to Eric Cressey and others, that’s changing. In the past (and in some cases, currently) a typical practice for pitchers, might have...
by Tyler Anzmann | Sep 1, 2018 | Fitness
Losing Velocity In-Season The in-season period can be a difficult time for some athletes as the demands of playing and practicing can make maintaining a training effect difficult. Some athletes will not train at all during the season which leads to significant dips in...
by Tyler Anzmann | Aug 28, 2018 | Fitness
The guiding principle of training is specificity, such that when building a program for athletes of any stage the first factor you must consider is the specific actions of their sport. Meaning, the movements that are fundamental in producing elite and durable athletes...
by Tyler Anzmann | Aug 23, 2018 | Fitness
Stop Sacrificing Training Quality for “Toughness” All of the issues inside the University of Maryland football team highlight a problem across the sports landscape. While football may be the worst offender in terms of sacrificing training quality in the...
