Exercises You Should Be Doing: Kettlebell Suitcase Carry with Rope

Alright I’m not gonna beat around the bush today, I feel like poo…..again.  My first clue was when my alarm woke me up this morning.  I always wake up before my alarm –  it’s like some hidden Jedi talent of mine.   If, on the off… Read more

Miscelleaneous Miscellany Monday: “Oh Boy”

So Happy Take Your Girlfriend Out to Dinner Day!  Seemingly, I had everything planned out to a “t” over the weekend – making reservations at a trendy Italian restaurant in the romantic North End district for Sunday night.  The way I saw it, having to… Read more

Cressey Performance Promotional Video (a Sneak Peek)

A few weeks ago we had a video crew spend the day at Cressey Performance for a promotional video we’re making to highlight our elite baseball development program.  Below is just a quick sneak peek (a little over a minute), and sheds some light on… Read more

A Little Consistency Never Hurt Anyone

The other day I was watching one of our athletes squat, and noticed he was having a little trouble.  Okay, maybe a lot of trouble. Alright, truth be told, I felt like pouring battery acid into my eyes, it was that bad – but, whatever Read more

You Can Always Train Around an Injury

Last week, during our staff in-service training, I took it upon myself to discuss programming with our batch of new interns.  Specifically, my goal was to give them a hypothetical situation and see whether or not they could come up with an effective training strategy Read more

Sometimes You Just Gotta Let Someone Else Do the Thinking For You

I write a lot of programs.  It goes without saying that I write programs for many of the athletes and clients at Cressey Performance; I also write programs for various distance coaching clients I have around the world; I write my girlfriend’s programs; and I… Read more

Miscellaneous Miscellany Monday: 2/7/2011

1.  Well, congratulations to the Green Bay Packers for a crushing win last night.  And an EPIC fail goes out to me for falling asleep in the fourth quarter – I think I fell into food coma by the middle of the first half. Read more

I Guess There Really Is Something To This Whole Eating “Real” Food Thing

First off, I need to take care of a minor housekeeping issue concerning the RSS feed.   In the past week I’ve received numerous messages informing me that the RSS feed was acting funny. In a nutshell, for all of you who used to subscribe… Read more