Velocity Based vs Percentage Based Training Velocity-Based Training (VBT) has been the sexy training method the past few years. While it is an … [Read more...] about Velocity Based Training: The Truth
What Does Player Development Really Mean?
The phrase ‘player development’ is really getting thrown around a lot lately. The problem is this: most of the time, the description doesn’t even … [Read more...] about What Does Player Development Really Mean?
Cryotherapy Beneficial for Recovery?
Recovery is a difficult topic to research. Often times, there are conflicting studies and conclusions, because so much of the recovery process is … [Read more...] about Cryotherapy Beneficial for Recovery?
How to Train in Spring Training
Spring Training Spring Training seems to be an area where there hasn’t been much clarity given as to what a player should really be prepared for. … [Read more...] about How to Train in Spring Training
Battle of the Hamstring Exercises
Understanding The Study: Romanian Chair Better than Nordics in Building Hamstring Strength? (Click here for the link to the study) On the … [Read more...] about Battle of the Hamstring Exercises
Specificity in Baseball Training
Part One What it IS and what it is NOT At DST, we get approached a lot about whether or not our programming is sport-specific. More often than … [Read more...] about Specificity in Baseball Training
Energy and the Athlete
Where do we get energy from anyway? When we think of energy, we often think of not having enough of it. We get our energy from the food we consume. … [Read more...] about Energy and the Athlete
Destructive Squat Cues
There are two cues I often hear coaches giving athletes during the squat that I believe are not the best cues. I outline both cues in this article and … [Read more...] about Destructive Squat Cues