Featured Fitness Content: Volume 66

Before diving into this week’s Featured Fitness Content, you may want to check out our last installment. You can find Volume 65 here. At Ruthless Performance, we’re excited about the switch in Pennsylvania’s COVID plan for the north east from yellow to green. This means that gyms should be opening up and that we’ll have more and more availability at some of our affiliate locations. More on that below; but first, here’s this week’s Featured Fitness Content.

Featured Content

KB Single Leg Curl By Nate Harvey via EliteFTS

There Is No CrossFit, Just Good And Bad Coaching By Douglas Perry via Breaking Muscle

Coaching Female Athletes Plyometrics: Stop Making Them Sore By Erica Suter

Interview with Lee Taft. Movement Engineer. Coach. Teacher. Speed Guy. Exercise Scientist. Business Person. Lessons from 30 Years Teaching Human Movement. By Greg Lawlo via The Physical Movement

Vegan diets: practical advice for athletes and exercisers. Via Swimming Science

Is Training at Altitude Worth It for Athletes? By Carl Valle via SimpliFaster

Tip: Stability Ball Reverse Crunch By Nick Tumminello via T-Nation

New Testing Tools at Ruthless Performance

We’ve used the downtime caused by COVID-19 to work on building up various components of our business. One such addition is our new Probotics Jump System. Among other functions, this platform and handheld device collectively calculate your vertical jump height based off of the time between lift-off and contact with the mat after a vertical jump.

We’ll be using this to test all new athletes, and we’ll be regularly retesting and re-assessing existing athletes as well to ensure we’re building our athletes vertical jump capability. Regardless of the sport, vertical jump is an excellent skill to develop for a variety of reasons. As we talked about in Episode 4 of the Human Advancement Podcast, many NCAA D1 Swimming programs focus on building the vertical jump as a means of making better swimmers in the pool.

We’ll also be offering use of this jump system to various teams, gyms, and more. But more on this to come…

In our new summer course–as mentioned below–we’ll be testing and building the vertical jump capabilities of our athletes, in addition to diligently focusing on advanced injury prevention techniques as an integral part of this 6-week camp.

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Christening the new Probotics Jump System with a 32 inch vertical in @sperry’s. This mat was brought to my attention by speed / acceleration coach @leetaft. This jump system will be an integral part of our new athlete testing plus an ongoing reassessment tool for all of our athletes. The vertical jump has a great deal of carryover to athletic performance without the Central Nervous System strain of other testing protocols like 1RM or RM testing. This will allow us to test athletes and immediately get back to training without the additional days off usually associated with testing. For our swimmers out there this test is king. High level coaches like @todddesorbo of @uvaswimdive place the utmost value on vertical jump ability where Dryland training is concerned. You can learn more about vertical jump training at the Division-1 Swimming Level in episode 4 of our Better Humans Podcast (Podcast.RuthlessPerformance.com). #strengthandconditioning #strengthcoach #athletedevelopment #PIAA #drylandtraining #plyometrics

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Athletic Essentials Summer Course

We’re excited to announce a new 6-week course for athletes grades 9-11 at our partner location, Hereafter Fitness in Bloomsburg, PA. This class is specially designed to help bring athletes back to competition-shape after the months-long period of limited practice and unlimited couch time. As noted by FIFA’s return-to-play in Europe, injuries in sports will be high for some time to come following such a prolonged period of bad habits and sedentary schedules.

Because of this, beyond our normal goals of maximizing athletic performance and fitness in our youth and teen athletes, we’ll be placing a very special emphasis on re-acclimating soft-tissues to the demands of sport, building up aerobic and anaerobic capacities, and re-patterning solid movement mechanics. This class has the potential to be an athlete’s greatest asset as we return-to-play.

To learn more or enroll, contact us.