Peak Velocity & Peak Power: are they telling us the whole story?

It has been a while since the last time I wrote something here. It is extremely time consuming to write something with quality for the website, and due the growth of social media over the last few years, people’s attention span (including mine!) got reduced and blog posts are not so attractive as they used… Read More Peak Velocity & Peak Power: are they telling us the whole story?

Deceleration during acceleration in the weight room?

Although often forgotten the mechanical profile of an exercise and its variations can be decisive to strength/power development. First of all, it should be clarified that there is no difference between strength training or power training. We should not infer that, for example, power training is associated always with low loads and high speed. Power… Read More Deceleration during acceleration in the weight room?

Why Bridging the Gap?

Due to my background as a physiotherapist and performance specialist, I realized that there is a tremendous gap between rehabilitation and performance. But is there so much difference between rehabilitation and performance? Should this Gap exist? On one side we have physiotherapists, osteopaths, chiropractors and other kind of health professionals working in rehabilitation, that seem to… Read More Why Bridging the Gap?