I think people get married to ideas, methodologies, and exercises. I'll lump myself into that group as well. I'll admit that I've known of the benefits of unilateral training for a while yet never implemented it. Until I started getting hurt, I hit plateaus, and honestly felt like I was working for nothing. Now, I'm not necessarily a competitive weightlifter. It's just something I am passionate about because I find beauty in working against the natural forces of the earth. I

Recently I've been on a self education streak. In a month I went to 3 different seminars/certifications/conferences. Maybe I'm actually turning into a Strength and Conditioning Coach? The most recent was the High Performance Athletic Development Summit at Athletic Lab in Cary, North Carolina. The whole weekend was filled with a huge lineup of some very notable names and presenters. In reflecting on everything from the weekend, it was humbling to realize how Young and Dumb I a

I posted a video on my Instagram story of myself utilizing a Jump Mat while doing some plyometric work. A friend of mine then commented about how the facility I work out of has some awesome equipment. I'll admit, we definitely do. We have a lot of fancy equipment that we utilize in our training. Bar Velocity Trackers? We have multiple. A Jump Mat to test Ground Contact Time (GCT)? We have one. Laser timing system for timing sprints? We have those too. Normatec Recovery system