Posted on Friday, 12th March 2010 by Eric Cressey

1.I spent about 2.5 days in Las Vegas earlier this week to present at the NSCA Personal Trainers Conference.  I really enjoyed the event, as it was a chance to interact with a lot of new people (I don’t speak out west very often) and hopefully help some enthusiastic, up-and-coming trainers add to their skill [...]

Tags: Baseball Workouts, Kevin Youkilis, Mike Reinold, NSCA, shoulder impingement, Shoulder Pain, Tim Collins
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Posted on Thursday, 11th March 2010 by Eric Cressey

In my last blog post, I talked about the professionalism side of things with respect to narrowing down our applicant pool for Cressey Performance internships.  Today, I want to talk about a few more things an applicant can do to separate himself/herself from the remaining pack at final cuts.
Mistake #6: Not reading - You can [...]

Tags: Cressey Performance, Personal Trainers
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Posted on Wednesday, 10th March 2010 by Eric Cressey

At Cressey Performance, we have a few interns in the spring (1/5 - 5/10), summer (6/1 - 8/30), and fall (9/1-12/23).  Over the past three years, this internship program has “kicked out” some coaches who are doing great things in the industry, including names you’ll recognize like Brian St. Pierre (who we wound up hiring [...]

Tags: brian st. pierre, Chris Howard, Cressey Performance, kevin larrabee, kevin neeld, Mike Boyle
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Posted on Tuesday, 9th March 2010 by Eric Cressey

I just got back from speaking at the NSCA Personal Trainers Conference in Las Vegas, so I’m a bit short on content as I play catch-up now that I’m back in Boston.  Luckily, Bill Hartman put together an excellent two-part series on femoral anteversion as it relates to hip mobility.  Check them out:
Hip Mobility: Femoral [...]

Tags: Bill Hartman, hip internal rotation, hip mobility
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Posted on Friday, 5th March 2010 by Eric Cressey

Today marks the end of one of the funnest “eras” of my life.
Back on September 9, we officially kicked off the pro baseball off-season with Tim Collins’ arrival at Cressey Performance for his first training session of the off-season.  Coming off a great season that included a promotion to Double-A at age 20 and a [...]

Tags: Alex Szymanski, Anthony Seraterelli, Baseball Workouts, Benji Johnson, Chad Jenkins, chad rodgers, Cory Riordan, Craig Albernaz, Derick Himpsl, Howie Clark, Jeremiah Bayer, Jim Fuller, Justin Edwards, Kevin Nolan, Kevin Pucetas, Kevin Youkilis, Matt Blake, Matt Kramer, matt morizio, Nick Asselin, Nick McBride, Pat Bresnehan, Phil Negus, Pro Baseball Pitcher Workout, Shawn Haviland, steffan wilson, Steve Cishek, Steve Hammond, Tim Collins, Tim Kiely, tim stronach, will inman, Zach Piccola
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Posted on Thursday, 4th March 2010 by Eric Cressey

At the recent Winter Olympics, Dutch speedskater Sven Kramer missed out on a gold medal because his coach, Gerard Kemkers, directed him into the wrong lane part way through the race.  Kramer finished the race with an Olympic record time - four seconds ahead of his nearest competitor - but was immediately disqualified because of [...]

Tags: ACL, Personal Trainers, Sports Injury, Weight Lifting Program, Weight Lifting Routine
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Posted on Wednesday, 3rd March 2010 by Eric Cressey

Back in December, I was honored to be included as one of several speakers who presented at Ron Wolforth’s 2009 Ultimate Pitching Coaches Bootcamp.  As was the case in previous years, it was a great event that brought together a lot of forward-thinking minds from various roles in the pitching world.  Today, I’m happy to [...]

Tags: Baseball Workouts, Brent Strom, Off-Season Training for Pitchers, Pro Baseball Pitcher Workout, Ron Wolforth, ultimate pitching coaches boot camp
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Posted on Tuesday, 2nd March 2010 by Eric Cressey

Here are a few recommendations for this week:
East Coast Muscle - Recently, Men’s Health Fitness Editor Adam Bornstein traveled all along the East Coast to check out several training facilities - one of which was Cressey Performance.  This blog post details his experiences and features a picture of one dead sexy guy named Cressey lifting [...]

Tags: Adam Bornstein, Cressey Performance, Made To Stick, Men's Health, Strength Training for Runners, Weigh Training for Running
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Posted on Monday, 1st March 2010 by Eric Cressey

I recently came across a study in the American Journal of Sports Medicine that showed that over an 18-year period, an estimated 970,801 weight-training-related injuries presented in emergency rooms around the country.  That’s an average of 53,934 injuries per year…nationwide.
Based on the market research from back when we wrote Maximum Strength, about 23 million Americans [...]

Tags: Injury Prevention, Sports Injury
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Posted on Friday, 26th February 2010 by Eric Cressey

This week has been a busy and exciting one, to say the least.
1. There’s no more fitting way to start this list of random thoughts off than with a huge congratulations to CP athlete and Team USA bobsledder Bree Schaaf, who finished 5th at the Olympics on Wednesday night.  I first started working with Bree [...]

Tags: Bree Schaaf, Mike Reinold, Olympics, Optimal Shoulder Performance, shoulder impingement, Shoulder Pain, underarmour performance mouthwear, Weight Lifting Program, Weight Lifting Routine
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