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injury prevention Archive
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Bob Wahl and the “Snot-nosed Kid”
You don't debate with a world champion.By Steve Colescott
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Bringing Speed and Strength to a High School Baseball Program
It doesn’t take state-of-the-art equipment or additional practice time to build better athletes.By Bryan Christopher
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Training for “Hard-Court” Success
Basketball is a sport that presents the strength and conditioning coach with some daunting challenges.By Joe Giandonato
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Being Human, Part 5: A Mountain of Challenge
The true masters of agility are not who you might think...By Sport Jester
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A Multifaceted Approach to Pull-Up Improvement
Barring injury, everyone should be able to do at least ten quality pull-ups.By Will Rouse
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Twitter Chat: Post Meet and Dust Mode Tips
It's more difficult and takes more time to accelerate a car to 50 mph from a stop than it does from 25 mph, right? The same thing goes for your training. Here, Dave gives tips on transitioning from BLAST to DUST so you will be ready to start again.By Dave Tate
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The Ladder…Good? Bad? Both.
Ladder drills should be included in the dynamic warm up phase of a complete strength and conditioning program on occasion to change things up and keep it fresh.By Doug Balzarini
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A Very Different View of Training
I prepare an athlete to develop optimum control of his body as he moves, which is why I view core stability a failure as a basic model of athletic training.By Sport Jester
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Training the Female Athlete: Culture, Education, and Motivation
The girl steps into the gym for the first time and is met with the smell of sweat and the sound of metal clanging violently.By Bill Rom
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Bench Got You Bitchin’?
It's a safe assumption that most of you aren't injury free.By Kyle Schmitz
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Neck and Trap Training for the Strength Athlete
Training the musculature of the neck and trapezius is often ignored by many lifters.By Joe Giandonato
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Facts Needed to Prevent Hamstring Strains
Once you've experienced a hamstring strain, you wish nothing more than for it to never have happened or at least for it to never happen again.By Brad Longazel
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Our Salute
“The Nation today needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country’s debt to them.” –General Omar BradleyBy Steve Colescott
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Three-Dimensional Hip Strength for Performance and Injury Prevention
A stable and optimal hip can produce force in all three dimensions of movement—flexion/extension, abduction/adduction, and internal/external rotation.By Brad Longazel
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Training Concepts, Recovery and Knee Rehab with Buddy Morris
These videos made me realize what I needed to do in order to preserve longevitiy in doing what I love...lifting!! I just wish I came across these videos a few years back because it might have saved me from a lot of the frustration I'm experiencing now.By EFS Staff
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Injury Prevention Series: IT Band Syndrome
Few sayings are more sagacious than the adage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”By Joe Giandonato
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Back in the Limelight
Adding some new back exercises into your routine can help you break through plateaus, boost your strength, and give you a welcome change of pace in your training.By Mike Samuels
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Understanding Forces
As we know, training can be very beneficial to anyone’s fitness or athletic goals, but understanding some of the ways in which these exercises negatively affect the body can aid in decision making in programming as well as make it easier for us as professionals to accommodate athletes and work around certain injuries.By Rick Danison
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Grip4orce Grippers for Total Body Muscle Building and Strength Gains
Whether training for quality gains in lean muscle mass in preparation for bodybuilding competition or for elite level athletic performance, we could all benefit from additional strength and muscle size increases.By David Robson
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Rehab Fatigue
Like anyone who regularly reads elitefts.com™, I've struggled with injuries.By Matthew Gibson
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The Importance of Neck Training for Sports
The title to this article isn't meant to be misleading.By Rick Danison
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Smith’s got your Back: Warm-ups for Squat Injury Prevention
Squat injuries happen more frequently without a proper warm-up. Dr. Ryan Smith discusses a few simple movements he uses that can save you from painful complications.By Rachel Cassano
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Correcting Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction, Part 1
The sacroiliac joints (SI) are a common source of lower back problems for a wide range of people including housewives, professional athletes, and elite lifters. The SI joints don’t discriminate.By Sam Visnic
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The Hip Flexor Solution
Due to a recent influx of hip flexor questions, I decided to put together a few thoughts on the issue.By Andrew Paul
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Alleviating Ailing Ankles
Anyone who has worked with field and court sport athletes has undoubtedly dealt with his fair share of athletes with ankle injuries. The ankle is the most frequently injured joint in sport, accounting for one-third of all injuries. As the Western approach to medicine is highly reactionary in nature, we typically follow ankle injuries up [...]By Carson Boddicker
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Athletes and Olympic Lifting
The power clean and other Olympic lifts are a staple in strength and conditioning programs for many sports from high school to the pros.By Chad Wesley Smith
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Injury Prevention Strategies for Female Basketball Players
Injuries are a major setback for any competitive athlete. It can be physically taxing to recover and mentally stressful and draining to be sitting on the bench and going through rehabilitation. Injuries can even affect major decisions such as college or scholarship offers.By Callie Durbrow
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The Top Five Movements for Shoulder Health
Recently, I received an email from an average, middle-aged man who, after years of training, was unable to pick up his three-year-old son over his head due to shoulder pain. His goal was very simple.By Andrew Paul
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EFS Spotlight: Cornell Key
I met New Jersey’s Cornell Key at a seminar a few weeks ago, and was immediately impressed by his size – he’s obviously an athlete – his training acumen and his willingness to get out and ask questions of anyone and everyone in order to expand his knowledge base.By The Angry Coach
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Pointing Out Gluteal Atrophy
Whenever I’m approached by an avid exerciser or athlete who complains of knee or lower back pain, the first thing I do is check out his or her backside…literally. Not to sound like a sexual implication, but observing the glutes actually helps me understand a client’s description of knee and lower back pain.By John Izzo































