The basketball season is just coming to an end for many high schools, and it won’t be long before many of the players are off to their AAU teams.

If only I had known these essential ingredients for getting stronger, leaner, and more energetic when I was competing in bodybuilding, it would have made things a whole lot easier.

Jumping into a bath full of ice or having a cold shower is a great way to recover from exercise, right?

The focus of this article is to discuss what you do after you've sustained an injury.

Don't forget about impacting the ENTIRE upper extremity as well.

I've seen a ton of hip impingements on the right side

I was wondering if you can help me out with a hamstring issue.

Make sure there is rationale for its prescription.

Trying to convince a combat athlete that thoracic spine mobility drills will help him in the octagon is like trying to convince my girlfriend that size doesn’t matter.

The brain sends electrical impulses through the nerves to obtain voluntary muscle contractions.

Assuming we have someone who is fully motivated and has an adequate strength and conditioning program at his disposal, it’s time we address the educational component of action persuasion.

Whether you’re pressed for time or want to get straight to the weight, the thought of skipping over those warm-up exercises and routines seems to always cross our mind.

Lower back pain can be a common pain source for powerlifters and other strength athletes.

The real purpose of this article is for me to explain the stretching regimen that I do daily to ward off the sciatic pain.

Over the course of a few months, I frequently witnessed a person leave the physical therapy clinic restored to “functional capacity” only to return later with the same injury on a different limb, a different injury surrounding the original site of surgery/rehabilitation, or even worse, the same injury on the same limb.

As a Powerlifting Coach and as a professional Clinical Social Worker, when I think about the concept "recovery," I used to define it two different ways depending what hat I was wearing at the time.

Overtraining is a result of training stress in addition to the rest of life’s stresses exceeding an athlete’s ability to recover.

I’ve had so much pain in my lower back that it's hard to get up or sit down in a chair, let alone try to squat or deadlift a couple hundred pounds.

If you beat yourself up training like I do, you are going to love this article.

You wake up after a restful night’s sleep to hit up the gym before the sun comes up, but why do you feel so weak and unmotivated to lift heavy and strong?

In the second part of his two-part series, Charlie discusses some great things to do post-workout for quicker recovery.

Training hard comes with a price.

When training athletes, an all-inclusive approach works best.

In the first part of “Alleviating Ailing Ankles,” I discussed the function of the ankle joint and demonstrated a few exercises to help achieve additional range of motion in dorsiflexion.