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This Sunday, my fiancee Anna and I officially tie the knot.
Also this Sunday, the major league baseball season officially ends – which means my buddy Mike Reinold (head athletic trainer and rehabilitation coordinator of the Boston Red Sox) is going to have some time to do some marriage “maintenance” of his own after lots of [...]

I’ve gotten several inquiries about whether Show and Go will be a good fit for women trying to get fitter and stronger.  I guess it really depends on whether you want to be able to do stuff like this.
My lovely fiancee just showing up and banging out eight pull-ups – in her work attire, without [...]

In response to a recent blog, one reader posted a question about how I “structure” my approach to continuing education.  As I thought about it, it’s actually a more organized “ritual” than I had previously thought.  Here are the key components:
1.  I always have two books going at a time. One involves training/nutrition/manual therapy/rehabilitation.  The [...]

Here’s this week’s list of recommended reading:
Total Football Training – I just got an advanced copy of San Francisco 49ers strength coach Duane Carlisle’s new product, and read it over this past weekend.  There’s some really good stuff in there – definitely a good fit for the football players reading this blog. It includes an [...]

Last week, I had three separate pitchers ask me what I thought about swimming between starts.  My answer was pretty straightforward: I am not a fan at all.

There are several reasons for my contention with this as a useful modality.
Like pitchers, swimmers have some of the most dysfunctional shoulders in the entire sporting world; they [...]