Sports Performance

This is the second in our series of articles by top US strength coach Jason Shea, on the crucial importance of in-season training.  If you want to learn more about Jason and his excellent Stateside athletic performance facility please visit his personal training & sports specific website on http://www.apec-s.com/.   Strength and conditioning is an integral part of competitive ...

By Jason Shea M.S, C.S.C.S., PES, APECS Performance & Personal Training The time of year is upon us once again. A great off-season of workouts, and now it is time to put the results to the test. The question remains, where does the true test lie? Is it during tryouts and double sessions, or on the playing field during season and hopefully postseason. After all, isn’t the reason you t...

The more important something is to us, the more we tend to obsess about it.  It's the human condition.  Competitive fighters tend to take their lot very seriously, and as fight night approaches and the weigh-in looms large perspective tends to be lost and panic can set in.  This really isn't necessary, and any good sports conditioning coach should have his athlete ready and stres...

Jason Shea is one of the top personal trainers and strength coaches in the USA.  He has his own fantastic state of the art personal training / athletic performace facility in the Boston, Mass area (APECS), and we are very fortunate to have ongoing collaberation with such an informed and intelligent coach. By Jason Shea As the summer season ends and the fall sports season begins, thousand...

By Nick Mitchell If we examine the rather unmuscled physiques of many of today’s top football players (I am being kind, scrawny springs to mind when I think of half of the starting line up of any English Premiership team) we would be forgiven for thinking that football is in fact an endurance sport much akin to middle distance running. This is a fallacy exacerbated by the misinterpretati...

By Nick Mitchell I have a number of competitive boxers and MMA specialists walking through my doors here at Ultimate Performance. In 9 out of 10 cases they aren’t so interested in our more traditional personal training services where we concentrate on the refinement of body composition. In fact all they are generally interested in is how to get stronger. And to be more specific, they wan...