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A Systems Approach to Sport Injury

Danny Foley- MS, CSCS,D

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Injuries are an inevitable element of sport, and for most athletes, will present at some point or another. Injuries arise in many forms, and as I covered in a previous article overall injury rates do not appear to be improving in sport by any means. Examining the data there is a clear consensus that we are missing something, as injury rates across virtually all major sports and spanning all levels of competition appear to be trending in a concerning direction.Rather than examining this issue as

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Analyzing Injury Rates In Sport- What Does the Data Actually Say?

Danny Foley- MS, CSCS,D

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Injury rates across all sports have shown a concerning trend since 2000. While there are many factors that go into this, performance coaches

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Principles of Performance Series Part 3: Professional Development

Danny Foley- MS, CSCS,D

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For better and for worse, the internet has changed the landscape of how we live our day-to-day lives more dramatically than anything we’ve ever really seen. While this applies to virtually any profession, the internet has profoundly changed the landscape for the coaching industry- again for better and for worse. In the digital era we have been provided an infinite resource to study through, while also permitting the ability to see directly what the top professionals from across the globe are doi

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Principles of Human Performance Series (Part 1- Training Fundamentals)

Danny Foley- MS, CSCS,D

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Change is an interesting dynamic of life. While a necessary, and yes, an inevitable component of our world, change can be imposing and uncomfortable to navigate. There is assumed risk with everything, to include being complacent. But we have a funny way of analyzing change and risk taking, mostly due to the assumed expectation of maintaining status quo and meeting social norms. As people age, they become more inclined to avoid risk or change altogether, largely because we’re gravitated towards t

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3 Tips for Training After 40

Danny Foley- MS, CSCS,D

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I haven’t quite reached the hill myself yet, however hitting 30 somewhat recently has shifted my perspective on my training from “how hard can we go today” to “I wonder how long I can do this shit for.” A few years back, I witnessed one of the most impressive physical feats I’ve ever seen in person, and something I’ll remember for the rest of my life. One of Tim’s (senior) athletes came to him one day with a short-term goal in mind, saying he wanted to bench 315 and do 10 pull-ups for his 70th (

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Training Considerations for Knee Pain

Danny Foley- MS, CSCS,D

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While the knee is a relatively simple joint, paradoxically, it can be a difficult joint to navigate in training- especially when pain or injury are present. The knee, a modified hinge joint, is a sagittal-based joint that works predominantly through flexion/extension patterns. A common perspective for analyzing the functional role of the knee is by viewing it as the biproduct of the hip and the foot. Although this obviously isn’t entirely thorough, there is a good bit of truth to this and at the

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