What “FMS” Taught Me

Today Coach Dan Sanzo introduced us to the Functional Movement Screen and how to use it as an effective assessment for athletes. At my first interview for an internship at NU with Coach Boothby, he spoke to me about the FMS and how much we were going to use it...

Conditioning

Conditioning is undoubtedly one of the most debated facets of training. If you were to ask 5 or 6 sports medicine or exercise science professionals their opinions on conditioning, you would almost surely receive 5 or 6 entirely different descriptions of what is...

Plyometrics

Until last week, I thought that I had a relatively solid grasp on the concept of plyometrics, in terms of why they’re utilized and how they’re implemented. The physiological reasoning makes sense to me, and I thought that I understood the appropriate way to integrate...

Internal vs External Cueing

Though we had previously discussed coaching cues during an earlier intern education session, the topic was brought up in a different light this past week. One of the coaches suggested that we look into the differences between internal and external coaching cues. Prior...