Can Youth Athletes Get Away with not Strength Training?
The research is clear, weight training for youth should be considered a non-negotiable. Here are five big reasons why youth athletes as young as 8 years old should be weight training.
Training for Life: what athletics has taught a group of coaches
One of life’s biggest dichotomies is the harsh reality that to have an “easy” life, we must do what’s hard, putting the practice and execution of daily difficult habits as paramount. One tremendous gift that sports grants its participants, is that most make doing hard things a more enjoyable venture.
Pain, The Body’s Security System: What to do when it’s on the fritz
If an alarm was going off at our house, we would first look for danger, and then we would do anything that we could in order to turn it off. Are we treating the alarms going off in our body with the same care and attention?
The Hidden Systems Running Your Home: Why Nutrition Is the Plumbing, Wiring, and Fuel Your Body Depends On
Your body is the only home you’ll never move out of. It deserves the same care, priority, and maintenance you give every other home you’ve ever lived in.
Your Body Under Renovation: Our constant adaptation process and how movement increases our lifespan
A practical look into our constant adaptation process and how movement increases our lifespan.
The Nuts & Bolts of the AKademy
Created in 2022, find out what the DNA of one of Alaska’s best basketball player development programs is.
Could My Pickleball Obsession Even More Epically Transform My Health?
Hello, our paddle wielding friend. We are happy you’ve found this article. Have you ever considered how your Pickleball obsession is unlocking greater health and wellness for you?
Do You Have to Be Olympic to Lift Olympic?
Are the Olympic Lifts only for elite athletes? Why we think it should be apart of everyone’s training.
Three Mistakes to Avoid with Training
Here are three black holes of human behavior to avoid when trying to adopt a new training regime.
What Is the Actual Value of An Investment In Yourself?
As a society, our attachment to money often limits us from recognizing the true value of what self-investment can bring.
The Art of Running
Why does one of our most primal movements - running - also put us at one of the greatest risks for sustaining an injury?
Where Are All of the Girls Basketball Players?
Across the state of Alaska in the last decade there has been a palpable decline of girls basketball players in urban areas and, contrarily, a substantial increase in volleyball players. The question is... why?
Uh oh… I Think I’ve Plateaued
Feeling stuck and like your numbers aren’t improving? You may have plateaued. The good news, don’t have to stay there. Here’s how to get yourself unstuck and out of your plateau!
So… You Have Jumper’s Knee
What is Jumper’s Knee, aka Patellar Tendinitis, how do you prevent and rehab it?
Heavy Bench Press vs. Turkish Get Ups: Which is better for boosting athletic performance?
Heavy Bench Press vs Turkish Get Ups: which is better for boosting athletic performance?
Dear Diary, If I Fell Into a Pit of Snakes… I would Surely Die
If you fell into a pit of snakes? Could you pull yourself out? This is both hilarious and horrifying context to the Infinite Pull Up Challenge, of which the goal is to test and improve your pull ups!
Optimize Your Core to Maximize Your Performance
We know it’s important, but why is training your core an essential part to athletic performance? Here are the whys behind your core training program and a few assessments to see where you’re really at.
Help, Everyone is Faster Than Me
Sick of feeling like you’re eating other people’s dust? Time to do something about it. Here are 10 powerful movements wrapped into three different strength session combinations for you so you can stop feeling like the tortoise next to the hare.
Build Your Bunnies! Two Week Jump Rope Workout
Jump rope is one of the best low impact ways to improve bounce, foot speed, and improve stamina. It is a common misconception that jump roping is hard on a person’s body. Because most people run heel to toe, jumping rope is actually easier on our joints because it forces us onto our mid-foot and our joints stay stacked over one another the entire time. In turn, this can assist in becoming a mid-foot runner, which is exceedingly better for your body than being a heel-striker.
3 Next Level Mobility Hacks for Knee & Ankle Pain
Maintenance on our calf muscles as well as all of their surrounding tissues and overall biomechanical system, is critically important to maintaining and improving athletic performance as well as mitigating injury.