All athletes, no matter the sport, can benefit from strong hips. The stronger the hips, the more able athletes are to display speed. In this month’s edition of the Sports Performance Tip of the Month, Performance Specialist Jeff Richter demonstrates three loop band exercises that will work to strength the hips, improve speed and [...]
For synchronized swimmers of all skills levels, it’s important to activate muscle groups prior to multi-joint movements that occur during routines. St.Vincent Sports Performance Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach Brian Thompson, CSCS, CSPS, who trains the U.S. Synchronized Swimming Team, provides a few simple exercises for athletes to do during the warm-up prior to [...]
In sports like gymnastics, swimming, baseball and softball, a shoulder injury can mean an early end to the sport’s season. Exercises that focus on scapular retraction, upward rotation of the scapula and rotator cuff stability can help athletes develop overall shoulder health and strength, and reduce risk of injury. In this Tip of [...]
Building strength and flexibility doesn’t have to be done with heavy weights or expensive equipment. St.Vincent Sports Performance Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach Aaron Ruth CSCS explains how athletes can partake in challenging exercises at home. Traditional exercises like push-ups, planks, squats and lunges are perfect exercises to be done at home. These exercises [...]
Kicking off 2013′s Tip of the Month St.Vincent Sports Performance Video Series, Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach Jeff Richter breaks down the basics of a squat. Properly executed squats are a great exercise to strengthen lower body muscles, increase power generated by the hips, and reduce injury. For many athletes, the quadricep muscles dominate [...]
The glute muscles are the power and support behind an athlete’s acceleration, deceleration, and lateral movements. Properly developed and strengthened glute muscles also provide stability at the knee joint, and may aid in knee injury prevention. Many athletes tend to be front side dominant, meaning that the quadriceps muscles are more developed than the [...]
BICYCLING Magazine, the world’s leading cycling magazine, recently elicited the expert opinion of St.Vincent Sports Performance Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach, Greg Moore, to help develop an at-home workout for riders. But every athlete can benefit from these strength and endurance building exercises, without a trip to the gym. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Five At-Home Moves [...]
St.Vincent Sports Performance Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach Jeff Richter, CSCS, USAW, has put together a series of videos demonstrating several dynamic warm-up exercises. There are many benefits to a dynamic warm-up, as opposed to a static stretching routine. Only doing static stretching prior to a work-out will decrease force and power output. But [...]
In the second installment of the Dynamic Warm-Up Video Series, St.Vincent Sports Performance Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach Jeff Richter, CSCS, USAW, adds a group of wall exercises to the dynamic warm-up routine. If you missed the first video, check it out here.
Before beginning a workout, practice, competition, or game, most athletes participate in some sort of warm-up routine. Static stretching, where athletes hold a stretch for a certain amount of time, has been shown to decrease force and power out-up of muscles. Instead, athletes should incorporate a dynamic stretching routine into their warm-up. Dynamic stretching [...]
