Are your workouts hard enough?  Are you doing enough to build muscle? Lose weight? Tone up?  At Complete Performance most of our clients come to us FINALLY ready to chase their body composition goals.   They trust us with their nutrition.   They hold on to our...

 In our last blog on sports performance, we talked about the essentials of power development. You can find that link here Today, we’re going to go a little bit more in depth with how we get that power to transfer the best. SAID Principle The SAID principle is going to...

It’s a very timely topic today on power development and power output because we’re heading into a season for most athletes that work with us. Specifically, we have many softball, baseball and track athletes who rely heavily on power output and speed to be successful....

I recently made a video that had a lot of good questions asked, and it was based on the long-term adaptations that happen from throwing as you grow up and essentially the adaptations that we find overtime is that the shoulder on the throwing side is commonly down or...

When training any client for anything, it is important to consider safety, effectiveness, and carryover to sport. It is important to understand the functional demands of the sport and how the exercises chosen will help the client reach their goals.  Traditionally, the...

Do you back squat?  Better question…  Should you be using a back squat in your training program?  The back squat, like the bench press and deadlift, is a heavily debated exercise.   Is it necessary for training?  Or does it pose too great of a risk for injury? Now, if...

Do you bench press?  Better question - should you be using the bench press in your training?  The bench press is one of the most heavily debated exercises.   In athletics, the question becomes should overhead athletes who throw, spike or shoot use this as a modality...

Warm up to throw, don’t throw to warm up. This is something I am very passionate about, so bear with me as I talk your ear (eyes?) off. We still see too many athletes start their throwing warmup, whether that is before pitching or game/practice, with a ball in their...

To be clear, there are more than three reasons.  Age, Sport, Position are a few of the common things that you might think of at first. What if you are the same age, play the same sport/s AND also play the same positions? What are other reasons to provide a custom...

Hey, did you know that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) recently published the second edition of the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans? Of course not! The only thing we hear about in relation the CDC is COVID (come on, we have to joke a little). In all...