Have you spent the summer hiking and biking and do you think you are in good shape for the next season on the snow? It may not be enough… According to the Denver Post and to the University of Denver Strength and Conditioning staff some time spent in the gym is recommended to get ready […]
Eddie Jones, Marcello Lippi, Marco Cardinale and many others were the lecturer at the 2015 Festival of Athletics Coaching held in Rome last weekend. I had the luck to participate along the CTO and founder of Beast Technologies Tommaso Finadri who held a panel himself about the growing importance of wearable technologies in coaching and […]
In your training life you must have heard at least once the word superset. It’s often surrounded with an aura of magical powers, like it’s the definitive solution to weak gainz. But what is really a Superset? And how do I incorporate it in my workout routine? From stack.com: “A superset is a training method […]
Last week a video of a girl deadlifting 189 KGs became viral on the web. Lee Winroth is a young Swedish soccer player, only 17-year-old and in this video she lifted nearly 3 times her bodyweight. What’s amazing is that if this had been a powerlifting competition regularly sectioned it would surpass the current world […]
This week we had a nice surprise at the office; the Bench Press European Champion for age group M3, came to Milan to say hi to our team and had a nice chat about powerlifting and monitoring performance. He already started using Beast for his workouts, monitoring peak velocities for dynamic effort sessions. Adam won […]
Today is a big day for Italian basketball after the huge upset victory against Spain at the European Basketball Championships. Recently I came across a blog post by stats.com, the official supplier of statistics for the NBA, about the growing importance of 3-pointer in the game. The article compare historical data for teams and players […]
Most top level athletes and teams are making extensive use of wearable technologies to monitor every aspects of their game; wearable devices started to appear on practice fields few years ago, and now teams are also allowed to use technology to analyze games. Recently FIFA ruled in favor of technology used to analyze movements of […]
Many of you wondered what was that strange exercise Tim Tebow was performing shirtless in a video that became viral this week. The machine he’s using may look like a regular leg press and you may think that Tebow is using a wrong or weird technique. The reality is that the odd leg press is […]
We are in the middle of the off-season for Alpine Skiers (except if you live in the southern hemisphere), this is the time to get the work done in the gym and get ready for the winter. Training strength is fundamental not only to perform better on the slopes but also to prevent most injuries […]
The US women’s national team (USWNT) recently won the soccer world cup in Canada defeating Japan in the final and by dominating each game they played. Behind every world-class team there is a team of coaches and trainers dedicated to keeping players healthy through the whole period of competition, to help this highly trained professionals […]