Mobility Exercise of the Week: Thoracic Spine Extension on Foam Roller
For more mobility exercises, be sure to check out Assess and Correct: Breaking Barriers to Unlock Performance.
The Importance of Ankle Mobility
One of the most common issues we see in both athletes and our general population clients is a lack of ankle mobility - and more specifically, dorsiflexion range-of-motion. For just about everything in life - from sprinting, to lunging, to [...]
Shortening the Learning Loop with Effective Communication
Note from EC: Great content from Matt Blake today. If you want to read more of Matt's stuff, enter his name in the search box to the right of your screen, and you'll get some of his previous writing here. [...]
Strength Exercise of the Week: Face Pulls with External Rotation
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Weighted Baseballs: Safe and Effective, or Stupid and Dangerous?
I get asked relatively frequently whether we use weighted baseballs with our pitchers, and if so, how they are incorporated. I figured it'd be worth a post to outline my thoughts. To answer these questions: Do you use weighted baseballs? [...]
Cressey’s Holiday Wish List
It's not easy buying holiday gifts for me. I'm "that guy" who really can't think of anything that he really wants - or even needs. Call me simple, or call me stubborn (or a bit of both), but short of [...]
Random Friday Thoughts: 12/11/09
1. Sorry for the slower week here on the blog. In addition to trying to catch up from my three days in Houston, I had a few projects that needed to get sorted out this week. For starters, we had [...]
Stuff You Should Read: 12/9/09
It's been a while since I published one of these, so I thought I'd throw out two quick recommendations - both for reads from Cressey Performance guys. Exercises You Should Be Doing: Quadruped Rhythmic Stabilizations - This blog from Tony [...]
A Feature on Cressey Performance Athlete Bree Schaaf
Here's a great feature on Bree Schaaf, who has been training with CP since 2007.
The Truth About Strength Training for Kids
A while back, I attended a seminar in Houston, and while the primary topic was how to improve pitching performance, one of my biggest takeaways was with respect to adolescent physiological development. Long-time Phillies rehabilitation consultant Phil Donley presented some [...]
