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Rocco Aceto Interview

By Will Hitzelberger on January 17, 2014 / How To, Inspire Greatness / Leave a comment

I stopped by Trinity Prep Aquatics to sit down with Rocco Aceto. Rocco was the head coach at Washington State University as well as the assistant at Auburn University. At Auburn, his student-athletes achieved two Olympic gold medals, one NCAA team title, two individual and six relayRead more →

Tony Amato Interview

By Will Hitzelberger on January 6, 2014 / How To, Inspire Greatness / Leave a comment

For my opening episode I was fortunate to sit down with great friend and colleague, Tony Amato, to discuss his growth as a collegiate soccer coach and how he has used strength and conditioning to better his programs. Tony discusses why he brought strength and conditioning toRead more →

How To – Build Rotational Stability, Part 4

By Steve Yahns on December 31, 2013 / How To, Improve Athletic Performance / Leave a comment

This is our last entry for rotational stability. In review, we want to align the body and fire correctly to keep your stability. Then after adding strength, we can apply this to power movements. If you take one thing away from this video blog series, I hopeRead more →

How To – Build Rotational Stability, Part 3: Strength

By Steve Yahns on December 23, 2013 / How To, Improve Athletic Performance / Leave a comment

Taking the concept of rotational stability and adding strength lifts, strength exercises, etc. Unilateral exercises will cause your core to keep you stable, therefore showing lack of stability. No movement = stable! Movement or opening up = not stable. Work on unilateral exercises to become a stronger,Read more →

How To – Build Rotational Stability, Part 2: Anti-Rotation

By Steve Yahns on December 17, 2013 / How To, Improve Athletic Performance / Leave a comment

Someone is running at you - we don't want to absorb the impact, we want to resist that, right? Isometric strength is where it's at. Band anti-rotational work will help you gain the strength to resist. Work on firing glutes, core, shoulders, etc. Do not cave inRead more →

How To – Build Rotational Stability

By Steve Yahns on December 11, 2013 / How To, Improve Athletic Performance / Leave a comment

A lot of training is focused on straight ahead work, but we have to become more powerful when rotating! Core training is your foundation. With a strong, stable base you can then add power in your rotation. Focus on stability and strength, isometrically!Read more →

How To – Warm Up: Crossover

By Steve Yahns on December 5, 2013 / How To, Improve Athletic Performance / Leave a comment

You're at risk for injury if you don't warm up properly, especially when you are warming up for rotational or crossover work. This requires your core to be firing!! So warm up your core as well as lengthening and stretching out the lower body.Read more →

How To – Warm Up: Lateral Shuffle

By Steve Yahns on December 2, 2013 / How To, Improve Athletic Performance / Leave a comment

The ability to shuffle is a learned skill. An appropriate warm up is essential to teach mechanics, make sure proper muscles are firing and most importantly, make sure the mind and body are ready to get after it.Read more →

How To – Inspire Greatness

By Will Hitzelberger on November 27, 2013 / How To, Inspire Greatness / Leave a comment

SSPs, Will Hitzelberger, introduces his 2014 blog series of Inspiring Greatness. An interview a week with other sport professionals who are very influential in this field and use strength and conditioning aspects with their athletes. Stay tuned each week for new questions, new responses and new inspiration.Read more →

How To – Warm Up: Linear Acceleration

By Steve Yahns on November 26, 2013 / How To, Improve Athletic Performance / Leave a comment

So much time is spent on what goes into a sprint workout, but so many programs fail to properly prepare athletes to sprint with power. It's important to get the kinetic chain in alignment and get core musculature firing. It's just as equally important to elongate musculatureRead more →