When parents call in to Redline to inquire about our services a lot of them will ask if we offer any classes to work on foot speed and agility. I highly recommend to parents not to waste your money on these types of classes. Throwing a bunch of ladders, hurdles, and cones out and running through them like an obstacle course is not how you create speed. The truth is foot speed has very little to do with running speed. I’ve seen many athletes with really fast feet run incredibl

We’ve always been told to make sure we stretch to avoid injuries, but have you ever constantly stretched a tight muscle, whether it’s your hamstrings or low back, and not seen any improvement? If it were truly a muscular stiffness issue you would see improvement from stretching. Often times the solution is strengthening, not stretching. You may feel tight in certain areas because the body creates protective tension to prevent injury. This is often the case in the most hypermo

One of the best ways to keep a healthy back is to have a really strong core. The core musculature is used to resist motions, rather than create them. Our backs will stay healthier if we create motion with our hips and our t-spine rather than our lumbar spine. Knowing this we want to avoid things like crunches, sit-ups or Russian twists to strengthen the core. These exercises repeatedly flex, extend, and rotate the spine which is one of the most common ways to injure your back

Nutrition is a frustrating topic for many people if you don’t go out of your way to study it. There is not a lot of common knowledge on it, except maybe stuff you see in the media. Some examples of “information” are to eat your fruits and veggies, protein is important, soda is bad, sugar is bad, carbs are bad, fat is bad, sugar replacements give you cancer, carbs are actually ok if you have whole grains, there are good fats so fat isn’t actually bad, fruit has sugar so don’t

Unless your sport is distance running, the best athletes that have the biggest impact on the game have a combination of speed and power. Even if you play a sport like soccer or football, there are better ways to train for endurance than long distance runs. It’s completely unnecessary in a sport like baseball. Even if you’re not running distance or poles, dozens of “sprints” with little to no recovery time is just as bad if not worse. You’re actually training your players to g