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When people think about movement in sports, they often focus on linear speed—how fast an athlete can run in a straight line. While linear speed is valuable, sports like soccer, basketball, tennis, and football demand agility and quick lateral transitions. This includes side-to-side movements, pivots, and reactive cuts that are essential for evading opponents, staying balanced, and maintaining control.

You probably identify as an athlete of some sort. You are in the gym, on the track or field, on the trails or wherever else your sport takes you (that's why you are here, after all). You train hard, you recover hard, you care about being in shape, performing well, and maybe even maintaining a certain physique. So, you are an athlete and would consider yourself athletic.

You care about performance. You want to be strong. You want to look yoked. And because of that you are willing to go hard. You crush the gym. You are committed to your workouts. You bring 100% effort. But has it ever dawned on you that not all progress is found inside the gym? It's true. Your workouts are where you break down muscle. The physical demand of your workout is a lot. Not to mention the component of training that can often be taxing on your central nervous system leaving you fatigued in a way that impacts more than just your muscles. This might sound off, but it's true. Your workouts are what essentially breaks you down. Because of this you won't find all progress there. Rather the progress is found in how you come back from those tough training sessions. Your recovery is key. The better you recover, the more you are contributing to improvements.

Athletes need to be fast, strong, and explosive. In all sports, the attributes of speed, strength, and explosiveness contribute to being a better athlete, an elite athlete.

One of the greatest implements for improving overall athleticism, particularly speed and explosiveness, is the hurdle. High hurdles and mini hurdles come in heights as low as 6” and typically up to heights of 42”, though some athletes, namely high jumpers and very capable leapers, use hurdles of even higher heights.

Day in and day out of the gym, you are working towards something. Striving for a sleek aesthetic, improving performance, chasing efficiency in functional movement and even working simply on preventing injury.

There is one thing all of these have in common: the importance of your glute muscles in each and every one of these endeavors. Your glutes play a massive role in every one of these goals and how you approach your training can help mold the outcome of your goals.

Glute centric fitness, booty gains, a juicy booty, butt stuff: call it what you want, we are going to unpack what this all means and how to capitalize on one of our favorite muscles to train.

There is one exercise, the GHD sit up, that is a classic in the realm of CrossFit, and does a phenomenal job of giving the abdominal muscles an aesthetically pleasing look for rippling six pack abs. The GHD sit up is also incredibly difficult and sneaky in the muscles it asks for athletes to recruit.

The Zercher Squat, and its derivative exercises, are named after Ed Zercher dating back almost a century ago to the 1930s. He invented the Zercher squat out of necessity. The gym the dude worked out at did not have a squat rack and the Steinborn Squat was apparently not part of his repertoire. Information didn’t travel quite the way it does today.

You need to know that assessment involves the idea of KPIs. Key performance indicators. KPIs are very similar across all athletics. You may ask, “How is the........

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A skips are a variation of high knees with an extra skip. The grounded foot doesn’t quite stutter but it bunnies like a knock on a door. Qu...

Using the Peak Strength app always has you begin with the warm-up, even on an athlete day where nearly any traditional weightlifting occurs. When you.....

Training like an athlete can involve high-rates coordination with technical coordination movements, like a dumbbell snatch. Absolute strength movements....