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Volleyball Specific Exercise, Series 4: Power

By Steve Yahns on October 17, 2012 / Sport-Specific, Volleyball / 1 Comment

By: Steve Yahns, MS, CSCS, NASM-PESAssistant Director of Performance, Lead Methodology EducatorSpectrum Sports PerformanceVolleyball Specific Exercise, Series 4: Power As in most sports, power is an extremely large component of volleyball. As discussed in previous blogs, it takes power to run, jump, dive, and change direction. InRead more →

Volleyball Specific Exercise, Series 3

By Steve Yahns on October 4, 2012 / Sport-Specific, Volleyball / 3 Comments

By: Steve Yahns, MS, CSCS, NASM-PESAssistant Director of Performance, Lead Methodology EducatorSpectrum Sports PerformanceVolleyball Specific Exercise, Series 3 For most players on the court, jumping is a key component in every game. Their ability to get up in the air quickly and get height while jumping canRead more →

Volleyball Specific Exercise, Series 2

By Steve Yahns on September 27, 2012 / Sport-Specific, Volleyball / Leave a comment

By: Steve Yahns, MS, CSCS, NASM-PESAssistant Director of Performance, Lead Methodology EducatorSpectrum Sports PerformanceVolleyball Specific Exercise, Series 2 In part 1 of this article I mentioned how muscular imbalances and postural deviations are everywhere in athletics, and even everyday life. We also previously talked about the importanceRead more →

Volleyball Specific Exercise Series

By Steve Yahns on September 20, 2012 / Sport-Specific, Volleyball / Leave a comment

By: Steve Yahns, MS, CSCS, NASM-PESAssistant Director of Performance, Lead Methodology EducatorSpectrum Sports PerformanceVolleyball Specific Exercise, Series 1 For most volleyball players, this part of the year is when school teams are in season, practices take place for multiple hours everyday, and the body starts showing in-seasonRead more →

SSP Begins Work with Rollins College Men’s Basketball Team

By Will Hitzelberger on September 11, 2012 / Collegiate Athletics, Rollins College, Sport-Specific / Leave a comment

By: Will HitzelbergerRollins College Strength and ConditioningSpectrum Sports PerformanceSSP begins its 8th year at Rollins College this fall, and will once again be adding another team to its list. The Rollins College Men's Basketball Team will now be using the Sports Performance Services of SSP for theirRead more →

2012 SSP College Athletes

By Will Hitzelberger on August 9, 2012 / Collegiate Athletics / Leave a comment

This blog is to simply recognize the athletes that committed their summer to becoming Better Athletes. This group gave up vacations, sleeping in, late nights and mediocracy to provide something special to their sport, their teams and to themselves. We will follow each one of these athletesRead more →

Sport Galaxy Limited

By Will Hitzelberger on August 8, 2012 / Pro Athletes, Sport Management / Leave a comment

SSP has developed an incredible relationship with Sport Galaxy, a specialized management consultancy that has partnerships within the sporting genre to help in the progression of sport development. Sport Galaxy has recognized the importance of performance training not only for athletic enhancement, but also for career longevity.Read more →

Salif Diao Spends Off-Season with SSP

By Will Hitzelberger on August 8, 2012 / Pro Athletes / Leave a comment

By: Will HitzelbergerSpectrum Sports PerformanceInternational and Premier League Soccer player Salif Diao just spent 3 weeks of his off-season training re-conditioning his body with SSP this summer. Due to his busy schedule of Charity work with sport4charity, he was traveling the first part of his off-season. TheRead more →

Rollins College Men’s Soccer – Strength and Conditioning

By Will Hitzelberger on May 11, 2012 / Collegiate Athletics, Rollins College, Speed Training, Sport-Specific, Strength Training / Leave a comment

By: Will HitzelbergerRollins College Strength and ConditioningSpectrum Sports PerformanceOver the last couple of years, Rollins College Men's Soccer Program has become one of the most recognized soccer programs around the country. Two seasons ago they concluded their season at the Division II National Championship with a RunnerRead more →

Rollins College Athletics

By Will Hitzelberger on May 4, 2012 / Collegiate Athletics, Rollins College / Leave a comment

By: Will HitzelbergerRollins College Strength and ConditioningSpectrum Sports PerformanceOver the next couple of weeks, I will blog about the teams that I work with at Rollins College, our approach to each team over the course of a year and the teams’ recent success. For those of youRead more →