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Vision Drills for Better Performance in Physical Movement

All that you have ever experienced, will ever experience, all the exercises or personal bests you have ever pulled off have started and ended in your brain. All movement, skill, thought, and ... Continue Reading

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Fatigue: It’s Just an Emotion

You’re in the middle of a one-minute max effort rowing sprint. Your legs are full of lactic acid and feel like they might fall off. Your lungs are on fire and your heart rate is through the roof. There’s ... Continue Reading

Self-Coach With Confidence

Photo by Bev Childress Photo by Bev Childress Let’s say you have been working out for a long time, by yourself. You are extremely self-disciplined and feel confident following programs that ... Continue Reading

Placebo Power: The Placebo Effect and Athletic Performance

Placebos have powerful effects on strength, endurance, and pain tolerance. But they’re also not completely understood. So, I’m going to discuss how traditional placebos have been used and how you might use ... Continue Reading

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Compression Tights May Not Be Worth Hype for Performance Benefits

New research in the Institute of Training Science and Sport Informatics, examined the effects of popular graduated compression stockings on running performance in male and female competitive ... Continue Reading

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What We Know about Handedness

A concept as basic as the hand we choose for eating, writing, making contact with our loved ones, is at the heart of extensive empirical research. Roughly nine in ten of us favor our right hands for these ... Continue Reading

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Dynamic Warm Up Increases Jump Height and Distance

Researchers and strength and conditioning professionals still debate over the efficacy of a dynamic warm up vs. .a static warm up. Research has noted the benefits of a dynamic style work out for ... Continue Reading

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Researchers Warn High Training Loads Increase Field Injuries

New research in the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport examined training loads and injury rates in professional rugby league players. Researchers studied 79 professional rugby league players over a ... Continue Reading

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Coaching Tip: The Importance of Journaling

At my gym, CrossFit Los Angeles, we require all of our students keep a workout journal. In their journal they write down in detail their warm-up routine, the workout, the “score” or results of the workout, ... Continue Reading

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The Impact of Weight-Cutting on Collegiate Wrestlers

The sport of wrestling is infamous for its weight-classes and weight-cutting. The practice has become controversial on the high school level in recent years, and despite stricter regulation by the NCAA, it ... Continue Reading

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Strength and Conditioning Components for Elite Snowboarders

Snowboarding has become an exceedingly popular sport in the last 20 years. For many snowboarders, training in the off season and working out in a gym isn't a common practice. With the popularity of ... Continue Reading

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BCAAs May Not Augment Athletic Performance

Supplements for improving athletic performance and recovery for are a hot topics for research today.  Branch Chain Amino Acid (BCAA) supplements are widely touted by fitness enthusiasts to improve ... Continue Reading

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