The ankle is a complex joint, comprising ligaments, tendons, and muscles, provides both stability and mobility, but it's also susceptible to common sports-related injuries like ankle sprains. To reduce injury isks, it's crucial to introduce exercises that build ankle stiffness into their training routines. These exercises aim to fortify the ankle's supportive framework, ultimately enhancing stability and reducing the likelihood of injuries, ensuring our athletes can perform at their best and enjoy a safe and successful sports experience.

Female athletes are more likely to suffer a knee injury than male athletes(1), especially during adolescence. But WHY? And what can the female athlete do about it?

This article helps you understand the deal with female athletes and their knees and how to reduce the risk of future knee injuries!

Sleep is crucial especially for athletes due to the high demands of their sport.

It is often overlooked due to the lack of knowledge athletes have on the importance of sleep for recovery needed in order to play their best out on the field. 

Fatigue and lack of sleep is prevalent in many female athletes because of daily stressors. It is the easiest thing that can be put on the back burner until it takes a toll on their body. 

Sleeping 4-6 hours a night is NOT enough!

Read down below as we dive into the importance of sleep and how sleep deprivation affects sports performance which increases the risk of sports injuries.

When sport seasons start, many female athletes stray away from the weight room as sport practices and games take over their schedules. The result: DETRAINING.

“But how can my athlete detrain when she is PLAYING her sport?”

It is simple, playing sports is NOT ENOUGH to maintain improvements realized outside of the season. In fact, after 3-4 weeks away from the weight room, all of the benefits your athlete realized begin to DECREASE and return to BASELINE.

Avoiding this detraining effect is easy, but it is important to understand why maintenance training is necessary if you want your athlete to maintain her speed, power, and avoid injury during her competitive sportsseason…..

For a female athlete trying to improve her lacrosse game, adding another 2 nights of practice to her schedule may not actually get her the results she wants...

For a female athlete who just rolled her ankle at softball practice... taking 3 entire days off may not get her back on the field as fast as intended.

LESS IS NOT ALWAYS MORE…. and MORE IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER.

The relationship between training load, injury, and performance is much too complex to simplify in a ‘DO MORE’ or ‘DO LESS’ statement. Rather, we have to consider the bigger picture when working towards a certain sport goal.

This is where managing an athlete’s TRAINING LOAD is key to help drive performance and decrease injury risks!

So what does this mean for the female athlete’s who play HIGH volume sports?

As sports seasons commence and homework loads start to pile, female athletes are placed under massive amounts of stress.

Although some of the stressors are out of her control, there are 3 main factors she can manage that DIRECTLY influence how well she performs, recovers, and improves this season.

Read on to find out:

ACL tears are all too common of a trend in female athletes, especially the adolescent population. But are females more “susceptible” because of their anatomy?

Or is there much more to the story we need to consider….

This article helps explain the current science explaining the relationship between the “female” anatomy, knee valgus, training modalities, and ACL injuries.

Whether it be an ankle sprain, hamstring strain, shoulder injury, low back pain... at some point, we’ve been told to take some time off- to REST.

If your athlete is injured, this article is a MUST to understand what to do to so you can DECREASE her time to return to sport and DECREASE the chances of her getting injured again!

Female overhead athletes are more likely to suffer a nagging shoulder pain or more severe injury at some point in her career. Find out how to differentiate between “HURT” and “INJURED” and what athletes can do to reduce their chance of future shoulder injuries….

Research demonstrates females are 3-6x more likely to experience an ACL injury compared to male athletes…..but are our hormones to blame?

Are female’s innately more fragile? Or is there much more to the story we need to consider….

KT tape seems to be all the rage with athletes….but what does the science say?

Does KT tape help injuries heal faster? Can it make you feel better? Or is it just a waste of money…..?

Every year when pre-season comes around, females often suffer from shin splints.

Find out what shin splints actually are, why the female athlete gets them, and what she can do to reduce her chance of experiencing them next season!

For decades, the public has believed that lifting weights is dangerous from the youth population….believing it stunts growth, or it is inherently dangerous….

But in 2019, the US Department of Health & Human Services provided us with a new narrative….

Keep reading to learn the TRUTH about youth lifting and what MYTHS need to be busted FOR GOOD.