By Nunzio Signore (BA, CPT, NASM, PES, FMS)
People often ask me what my favorite exercise is for building upper body strength. Well, I love push-ups. They are good for everyone, adults and athletes of all kinds including baseball, softball, lacrosse and hockey players among others. Continue reading “My Favorite Upper Body Strength Exercise… Push-up Progressions”
By Nunzio Signore (BA, CPT, NASM, PES, FMS)
Okay, so you’re one of the best ball players in your county or better yet the state, kudos on a job well done. But if you’ve worked hard enough to get offers to play baseball after high school you should know that spending the spring and summer in the weight room to get strong and pack on much needed muscle can be the deal breaker. Continue reading “Baseball Players Making Big Gains This Summer”
By Nunzio Signore (BA, CPT, NASM, PES, FMS)
Here at RPP, we have some great athletes who stand out as fantastic role models for aspiring young players with their efforts both on the field and in the gym. Today I’d like to talk about one of them, North Rockland’s Dan Wirchansky. Continue reading “North Rockland’s Dan Wirchansky — Hard Work Paying Off”
By Nunzio Signore (BA, CPT, NASM, PES, FMS)
With the hockey off-season under way and many teams and our college guys getting ready to come in, I thought it was an appropriate time to explain why I believe, here at RPP, we have a big responsibility on our hands. And I don’t simply mean our athlete’s physical development. Continue reading “Training with a Future in Your Hands”
By Nunzio Signore (BA, CPT, NASM, PES, FMS)
I often get asked about our philosophy on training young athletes. Needless to say, with the drastic fluctuations in structural, hormonal, and neurological development from one athlete to the next, teaching young athletes how to perform exercises with proper technique is a challenge, even for the most experienced coaches. Continue reading “RPP Philosophy on Training and Developing Young Elite Athletes”
By Nunzio Signore (BA, CPT, NASM, PES, FMS)
No one is immune from the risk of injury, especially athletes. It’s how we deal with these injuries during our recovery that allows us to continue to train effectively. Continue reading “Training with an Injury”
By Nunzio Signore (B.A., CPT, NASM, PES, FMS)
I’m currently gearing up for the “feast of the fish” that many of us Italians submit ourselves to so, I’ll be spending a lot of time sitting in my mother’s den listening to screaming and smelling like fish for 3 days. With some well needed “time to myself”, I researched which blogs people found the most interesting this year. So today, I wanted to post up the top 5 articles of 2014 in terms of receiving the most views. Continue reading “RPP — “The Best of 2014””
By Nunzio Signore (B.A., CPT, NASM, PES, FMS)
In today’s post we are covering Part 3 of Healthy Shoulders and Arms. In case you missed Part 2 please click here.
The shoulder requires a tremendous amount of strength and mobility to function, making it inherently unstable and prone to injuries. Rotator cuff surgeries are performed on in excess of 75,000 patients per year in the US. Improving stability in this region is paramount for overhead athletes and especially pitchers given the undue amount of stress placed on the shoulder. Although the lower body (especially lead leg Internal rotation) can play a huge role in shoulder mobility and health, for this continuing article we will be dealing with the upper body only.
Continue reading “Healthy Shoulders and Arms (Part 3)… Training the Shoulder”
By Doug Corbett (NASM, PES, FMS, CET)
Beginning this week we will be starting to feature blogs on nutrition from time to time by RPP coach Doug Corbett. Doug has been working at RPP since September of 2011 and has played a big role in speaking not only with athletes about their nutrition, but our adult clientele as well.
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From working with hundreds of athletes over the years, I can tell you that almost all of them have one thing in common when it comes to the way they eat. Mostly they eat garbage.
Breakfast is usually skipped or it is carb and sugar loaded such as cereal or a bagel with cream cheese. Lunch might be a sandwich with pretzels or cookies. And dinner is pasta, pizza, fast food, and maybe a few meals throughout the week that are perfect for an athlete. The problem is a few meals throughout the week are not good enough.
Let’s do some quick math. Continue reading “Nutrition — You Are What You Eat!”
By Nunzio Signore (B.A., CPT, NASM, PES, FMS)
In today’s post we are covering Part 2 of Healthy Shoulders and Arms. In case you missed Part 1 please click here.
If you want to throw 90+ MPH, there is no magic pill. It takes hard work and training to:
1) Increase your overall strength (head to toe),
2) Improve your mobility and stability in the hip, spine, arms, shoulders and legs, and
3) Take #’s 1 and 2 above and add great pitching mechanics to achieve maximum thrust on the baseball.
In case you missed it, #’s 1 and 2 are what we do at RPP.
In this second part of “Healthy Shoulders and Arms” article, we’ll cover some of the variables (as they specifically relate to #2 above) in a comprehensive shoulder program. For the scope of this article we will assume an assessment (please click here for more on this topic) has been performed and the results exhibited a generally healthy shoulder without any pain.
First, I’ll break down what I feel are a few of the biggest components of a great shoulder care program. Continue reading “Healthy Shoulders and Arms (Part 2)… Training the Shoulder”
