All our core work follows the same guidelines and works towards the same goal ➡️ to resist movement, not create it. ✔️ Anti-Extension like rollouts, body saw, and front plank variations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmB8E2r5ccg ✔️ Anti-Rotation like Pallof presses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BwCgbM-YGk ✔️ Anti-Lateral Flexion like side plank variations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8HaUPoE_CY ✔️ Loaded Carries like Farmers carry, suitcase carry and … Continue reading How We Program Core Work

Happy Monday! Like every other Monday, here are a few thoughts bouncing around in my head after a week of reading, podcasts, cruising social media and any other continuing ed. Enjoy! A poor diet is clearly linked to negative health issues. And you have 100% control of what you put in your mouth. 2. You'll … Continue reading Monday Musings

Happy Sunday! Just like every other Sunday, we have another group of podcasts and articles to read and listen to that I have dived into. Like every other week, there was a ton of content out there both in written form and through podcasts. Before we get to the weekly content, I wanted to remind … Continue reading S&C Week in Review: 8/9

I’m a huge fan of Kettlebell Swings. We use them for both athletes and adults at MaxWay Performance. And from time to time we will add a band to add a little more resistance at the top as well as creating a larger eccentric overload. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U56Jp8Qxdos

For me, I’ve come to the point where I elevate almost everyone’s heels when we squat bilaterally. From what I understand, the heel lift helps create a little more dorsi-flexion for people that don’t have enough or ideal ankle mobility. It also helps create a posterior weight shift so that they can ‘sit back’ a … Continue reading Why We Use a Heel Lift When Squatting

Why Do I Favor Trap Bar Deadlifts for Bilateral Training With Hockey Players.❓ The biggest reason ➖ we can avoid deeper hip flexion with a population that we know doesn’t handle deep hip flexion well. We know that generally speaking when training bilaterally, hip flexion at or around 90 degrees coupled with internal rotation of … Continue reading Trap Bar Deadlift With Hockey Players?

Our phase one plyometric training isn’t actually plyometric training, it’s more learning how to land correctly training. For each and every one of our plyometric exercises in phase one, we ask the athlete to ‘stick’ the landing in an athletic position in order to learn how to properly decelerate, which is huge for the prevention … Continue reading What Do Our Phase 1 Plyo’s Look Like?

Happy Monday! Like every other Monday, here are a few thoughts bouncing around in my head after a week of reading, podcasts, cruising social media and any other continuing ed. Enjoy! Smart people use simple language. They change their minds. They stay teachable. They ask questions to get clarity and understanding. Do yourself a favor … Continue reading Monday Musings

Happy Sunday! Just like every other Sunday, we have another group of podcasts and articles to read and listen to that I have dived into. Like every other week, there was a ton of content out there both in written form and through podcasts. Before we get to the weekly content, I wanted to remind … Continue reading S&C Week in Review: 8/2

If you were to walk into MaxWay Performance during our adult training times, you’d quickly notice that most all of our upper body pressing is ‘shoulder friendly’, with tons of Landmine Press variations, push ups and floor press variations making up a huge amount of our pressing exercises. Why? Because a lot of adults have … Continue reading How We Approaching Pressing Movements in Adult Populations