We're excited to offer our first educational mini-course on Periodization for Athletic Performance. If you're interested in gaining a deeper understanding of how a periodized strength and conditioning program (such as is provided by Volt) helps to develop athletic ability, this course is for you!
Read MoreCarbs have been demonized and labeled as “the enemy,” “fattening,” and “inflammatory,” among others. With the aid of fear mongering media reports and articles directing people to avoid carbs, we have become a society in fear of bread, grains, and even fruit and certain vegetables.
The truth, as supported by the vast majority of the professional nutrition and dietetics community, is that carbohydrates are an essential component of a balanced, healthy diet.
So, before you kick carbs to the curb, let’s take a look at why they are important to health, performance, and well-being.
Read MoreWhen we get physically injured, most of us think about the recovery process as RICE (rest, ice compression and elevation). While this is still vital to healing, what a lot of us miss out on is the chance to actually recover through our own NUTRITION. I’m not talking about simply cleaning up your diet to fuel your body, albeit a great idea, but eating foods that will help the specific stage of healing that your body is in at the time, and in turn, speeding up the recovery process!
Read MoreWhile it may seem reasonable to prepare for the ACFT by continuously performing the six events, successful preparation also requires assessing strengths and opportunities for improvement in your physical qualities, capabilities, and skills required to optimally perform essential tasks required for service.
So regardless of whether you have access to a fully-loaded training facility or a small training space where you live, here are some strategies and workouts you can perform to enhance mobility, strength, power, and mindset using three essential modalities.
Read MoreWhen it comes to picking the right exercises for testing, it is extremely important to understand how each exercise relates to the specific task of becoming a better baseball player. I can provide you with some suggestions, but ultimately, you must decide which is best for yourself or your athletes (if you are a coach). In this article, we’ll dive into potential movements to test baseball players on.
Read MoreAt Volt, we are dedicated to enabling everyone to reach their health, fitness, and performance goals. We wanted to take that knowledge and showcase it in a way that highlights our best-in-class training experience, cutting-edge technology, and industry-leading, in-house expertise.
Our goal for the new website was to provide our users with an easy way to learn about Volt’s services and surface our educational content in an intuitive way. From our newly designed About Page, brand new Resources Page, and educational Groups Pages, users can now find a ton of information on our products and content such as webinars, case studies, videos and more.
Read MoreLike the human body, Volt is also adaptable.
In response to the changing landscape of life as we know it in the past year, we developed and released Circuit Workouts.
Personally, I have implemented circuit training into my physical activity plan and training schedule. Why? Like many Americans, I’m time-starved. But importantly, I also understand the importance of exercise and physical fitness, and specifically that the added benefits of doing both aerobic endurance exercise and strength training, as opposed to either of the two alone, may be the most effective exercise strategy to reduce risk of chronic disease and premature mortality as reported in a study of >500,000 adults.
Read Moreone thing that has puzzled me for quite some time is why is it that young athletes (or namely, the coaches) strength train in the off- or pre-season to accomplish the goals described above, and then it gets abandoned in-season? Coaches will push for their kids to attend summer workouts, yet dismiss in-season training.
Read MoreDid you know that Volt releases new upgrades to its customers every two weeks?
Now, each of these upgrades isn't always highly visible. Sometimes, "hidden upgrades" might include a tune-up of our code to help the app function faster or a refresh of our security protocol to safeguard customer data. But every-so-often, we get to launch big features that take months to develop and totally change the game for our users! This article is dedicated to highlighting features we released in 2020, that helped our users continue to improve their athleticism, job performance, and physical fitness in a year where staying healthy, going to the gym, and building strength has been more challenging than ever.
Read MoreA good friend of mine, who is a long-time collegiate strength and conditioning coach, talks about “neck down training” and “neck up coaching.” What he means is that we often focus on training the body from the neck down – arms, legs, core–for physiological adaptations like strength, power and aerobic fitness, but need to coach the athlete through motivation, confidence, self-esteem, positive self-talk, leadership, etc.
This neck up coaching alludes to sport psychology and behavior change–and again, how can we, as coaches, make athletes, clients, etc. believe in themselves, motivate them, etc. I think you see the point here. The mind is a powerful “muscle.”
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