strength training

10 Tests for Measuring Athletic and Functional Performance

“If you ain’t assessin’, you’re just guessin’!”   I cannot remember who I first heard this from, but I find it absolutely true. I’ve discovered that I’m a “fixer” by nature. Sometimes so much to a fault (just ask my wife!), I’m always re-evaluating things I come across daily to find ways to make them […]

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Resistance Training Guidelines & Exercise Progression in Injury Rehabilitation

As rehab and fitness professionals, it is crucial that we know why we do what we do. Always be able to answer if someone asks “why?”. One of the awesome things about our profession is that, in rehabilitation and strength training, there are many successful approaches to obtaining great outcomes. Throughout my career I have

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Does Corrective Exercise belong in the fitness world? YES!

This week we have another guest blog by my brother from another mother, Jeff Buxton, MS, NASM-PES, FMS, ACE-CPT.  Knowing Jeff since 2002 from our days at PSU, he is a highly effective fitness and wellness professional, an emotionally intelligent leader, and an insightful resource for all health and wellness professionals he collaborates with. With

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Approaches to improving your training – Derek Arledge, CSCS

It’s time for another guest blog on cATalyzing ATs!  This time, we are dropping knowledge courtesy of my friend and former classmate Derek Arledge, CSCS.  D and I go back 19 years, as fellow alums of Penn State University Kinesiology.  Derek is a strength and conditioning coach who is the founder and owner of TEEM

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Got Glutes? (Part 2 – strengthening exercises)

Hopefully prior to reading this, you’ll have performed the three quick “glute assessment” tests from Got Glutes (Part 1).   If you’ve got test-passing buns of steel, awesome!  (But still do these exercises – work them into your regular program for maintenance). However, if you had trouble “passing” any of the three glute tests, now we

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