Mike Boyle's 4th Annual Winter Seminar

Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning is proud to announce our 4th Annual Winter Seminar which will be held on Saturday January 30th, 2010. This has become a hugely popular, must attend seminar, not only for personal trainers and strength coaches in New England but across the country. As an added bonus you can spend the morning watching and potentially participating in our training programs.

*Participation in morning workouts will be based on space availability.

Sponsored by Perform Better and StrengthCoach.com

Speakers

Eric Cressey: Medicine Ball Meat and Potatoes
In this presentation, Eric will discuss how medicine ball training can be implemented with everyone from rotational sport athletes to general fitness populations. Specific attention will be devoted to screens to determine who is prepared to safely utilize a variety of medicine ball training drills, as well as where these drills should be incorporated in a comprehensive overall training plan. Eric will also highlight the corrective exercise benefits of medicine ball drills and how they can serve as a much-needed medium between absolute speed and absolute strength. Plan on learning loads of new exercises that you can apply immediately!

John Pallof RPT: Training the Shoulder - Mobility to Stability
John will be discussing functional anatomy, common pathology and injury relating to the shoulder. Training for healthy shoulders and the throwers' shoulder will also be covered.

Brijesh Patel: It's Not All About the Sets and Reps
All coaches, and trainers are always looking for a better way to improve their programs for their athletes and clients. They are looking for new and innovative exercises, set and rep schemes, new equipment that will help take their program to the next level. Find out how to make your program better with out gimmicks, or fancy equipment but with good old fashion hard work, discipline and accountability.

Michael Boyle: ACL Injury Prevention is Just Good Training
Based on the article he recently wrote for Strengthcoach.com, Mike will talk about the 5 steps necessary to reduce injuries for any athlete, any gender, and any sport.

Schedule

Date: January 30th, 2010

8:00am-11:30am: Observation/Learn By Doing
12:00pm-5:00pm: Seminar at McCall Middle School

Location

Observation:
Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning
225 East St
Winchester, MA 01890

Seminar:
McCall Middle School
458 Main Street
Winchester, MA 01890

Directions: Click here

Contact person - Bob Hanson or Adrienne Norris at 781-729-1333

Cost

$99 for Students
$149 (after January 19th)

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Problem - Alleviating Ailing Ankles: Part 2

In the first round of Alleviating Ailing Ankles, I discussed the function of the ankle joint and demonstrated a few exercises to help achieve additional range of motion in dorsiflexion. While on the surface it seemed to be a very extensive article, luckily for you and I alike, the foot and ankle are extremely complicated and thus true ankle health and “mobility” is a multifactorial issue, and often just training “dorsiflexion” is not sufficient.

In this article, I will discuss with you further the structure, function, and pathomechanics of the ankle in another critical motion to foot and ankle health—subtalar inversion and eversion—and also give you a few practical solutions for restoring mobility.

Why do we want eversion?

While dorsiflexion is often trumpeted as critically important for ankle health (and it is) we often forget the importance of the “red-headed step child” of movements, eversion. Like most things in the body, rarely does a joint move one way without there being other accessory joint movements. With regards to the ankle, pure dorsiflexion is nice, but in gait dorsiflexion occurs with eversion and also abduction, which the sum of the three create “pronation.”

Unless the joint is adequately mobile in all three planes of motion, we are doing our athletes a disservice as they will eventually seek and find mobility in places where they should not. Those familiar with the concept of joint by joint training can certainly appreciate this idea—our body is composed of relatively mobile joints connected via relatively stable segments.

Understanding the mechanics

As you will remember from AAA: part 1, pronation or supination at the subtalar joint can help the ankle achieve additional dorsiflexion or plantar flexion range of motion, respectively. But what exactly is the “subtalar joint”?

The subtalar joint is composed of three articulating facets—anterior, middle, posterior—between the talus and the calcaneus. The flat, calcaneal anterior and middle facets offer a gliding motion, whereas the posterior facet is saddle shaped, which permits triaxial movement. The joint is reinforced by a joint capsule surrounding the anterior and middle facets and a capsule surrounding the posterior facet. It seems that the collateral ligaments of the ankle play a role in the position of the subtalar joint, including the oft-injured anterior talofibular ligament (ATFL).

Problem - Alleviating Ailing Ankles: Part 2

So You Want to Open a Sports Performance Training Facility?

I didn't necessarily start out wanting to own my own performance training business. I actually wanted to be a high school strength and conditioning coach, but seeing as that is unheard of in southeastern Connecticut I had to turn to the private sector. Although I am first and foremost a coach, I've always had a love for facility design and creating floor plans. I remember back when I was a student at UCONN in the early 90ʼs sitting in my biomechanics class drawing up my version of what I thought should be the new strength and conditioning facility for the Huskies. You see, back in 1991 there really were no facilities at the campus with the exception of the old football-only weight room and the new super-secret basketball facility hidden somewhere deep inside the new Gampel Pavilion. The rest of the athletes and commoners had to use “the cage” - a dark, dungy, stinky student weight room which maybe had one rack, some free weights and a bunch of Nautilus machines. After graduating and getting a job coaching and tutoring at my high school, I was back at it, drawing up plans for a state-of-the-art strength and conditioning facility for the school along with a field house, pool, etc, etc. I still have some of those drawings and am pretty proud of them even though half the strength facility was a circuit of selectorized Paramount machines including an abduction/adduction machine; I think I had a smith machine in there as well! Please forgive me, I was young!


So You Want to Open a Sports Performance Training Facility?

January Tip of the Month

First of all Happy New Year! We hope you all have a great year and are able to achieve all of your goals and have a happy, healthy and prosperous 2010!.

This month's tip of the month is a guest blog post from strength and conditioning coach, Sergio Merino. Sergio has been interning for me since August and has really grown as a young professional and really gets what it means to be a strength and conditioning coach. He is still learning about training methodologies and how to coach and get athletes to do what he wants, but really understands that the field is very broad and we have many responsibilities as coaches.

This was a second blog post that I really enjoyed and am sure that all of you will as well.

If you missed the first part check it out here.

-Brijesh

The Missing Factor in Strength and Conditioning Programs Part 2

Now that I've identified the missing factor, some of you out there may be wondering "How can I incorporate this into my program?" and this what part 2 is all about. Anyone can think of an idea but that idea is just that, an idea, until it can be applied.

Remember, "Knowing is not enough, we must apply" - Bruce Lee

Here are a few things you can incorporate into strength programs:

To Read the Rest

YSCCa Newsletter #4

We've got a great interview with Kaz Kazadi, Assistant AD for Baylor Athletic Performance. Coach Kazadi provides incredible advice and experience to all of us with this interview. Definitely a great read and insight into some different ways of thinking about coaching and life in general!

We've also got a much needed article by Joe Tofferi from University of Detroit-Mercy on dealing with sport coaches and administrators. I'm sure we've all run into this a few times and Joe provides some simple ways to keep your coaches (and bosses) happy when coaching your athletes throughout the year.

YSCCa Newsletter #4

Cardio Strength Training

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About the Author

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Why young kids should start strength training

I read this very interesting blog post by Eric Cressey this morning and he provides some great facts on why parents shouldn't be afraid of having their children start resistance training. I just said resistance training, not necessarily weight training - begin with bodyweight exercises, mastering technique before progressing to using external loads.

Check out the rest of Eric's blog