What creatine ISN’T: a steroid; a stimulant; an acute performance enhancer What creatine IS: a naturally occurring compound found in meat; a performance enhancer when consumed chronically & appropriately; healthy #creatine #nutrition #supplements

⬇️ vascular fn, muscular endurance & atrophy are a few of the biggest issues we must address following serious injury with disuse or surgery. BFR has been instrumental in helping attenuate these changes. New paper showing ⬆️ vascular conductance = more evidence of the benefit.

College coaches: you can't denounce early sports specialization and then offer scholarships to 8th graders. Please don't pee on our legs and tell us it's raining.

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Mirrors our #AlphaAthlete program. Squat, Hinge, Press, Pull, Carry. Unilateral, Bilateral, and in all three planes. Good stuff here from Joe Aratari.

ACL Prevention training for girls is just sound strength training. Don’t get me wrong... We 100% work on landing technique with jumps, deceleration work, & isolated knee stability drills... ...but at some point, you have to load the system. Strength is the best medicine!

Congrats to current @NebraskaSoccer and Iowa Rush SC @IARush_SR_Girls alum Meg Brandt on being named to the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team u23 team ⚽️🇺🇸 Proud of you Meg! ussoccer.com/stories/2019/0…

Twitter do your thing 🤗 The Ellen Show view picture 👇 Laura Terrell KCCI

Shoot your shot #oneshotwednesday

If you can turn this video on & watch it less than 5 times in a row, then we simply cannot be friends (ESP the cut at 15 seconds...like seriously, wtf is that?!). 20 is the definition of dexterity.

We’ll sometimes have parents email to ask us to put their 9-year-olds on a program like we would use with our pro athletes. I wish they’d instead ask what these pro athletes typically did when they were 9: play multiple sports and goof around with their friends.

School children given a blueberry drink showed enhanced verbal memory performance compared to children given a placebo drink. Previous placebo-controlled studies in children have shown that blueberry drinks improved cognitive function in challenging tasks. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The question of graft strain on OKC ROM came up a few times in the course I taught this weekend. 👇👇

Proper ACL Injury Prevention Programs reduce the risk of ALL ACL injuries by 1/2 and non-contact ACL injuries in girls and women by 2/3rds! Meta‐analysis of meta‐analyses of anterior cruciate ligament injury reduction training programs... ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29737… Kate Webster

Increased physical activity may significantly reduce the risk of depression, even among people who are genetically predisposed to depression. There was a 17% reduction in odds of a new episode of depression for every 4 hours of activity added per week. sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/…

The effect of blood flow restriction exercise on exercise-induced hypoalgesia and endogenous opioid and endocannabinoid mechanisms of pain modulation | New from @Luke_H04 & Stephen Patterson journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.115… #JAPnew #ArticlesInPress #physiology #exercise

Ankle bracing is effective at mitigating inversion sprains but at what cost? We recommend their use in acute return to sport specific conditions. Work out of it as soon as possible and build resilience to reduce risk of altered knee biomechanics. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

When looking at American football from the performance side it helps to understand the tactical and technical skills involved in the game. Adhering to Bondarchuck’s principles of dynamic correspondence, here is an example of a CE exercise that falls into our COD/Agility bucket.

I can’t wait for this. 😊

Apparently I’ve got some reading to do! jospt.org/doi/abs/10.251…