February 29, 2024

Integrating Sports Performance and Sports Science: Building a Winning Team Culture

February 29, 2024/ Tom Smalley MS, CSCS

As sport coaches or athletic department administrators, you're constantly seeking ways to enhance performance and create a winning culture for your teams. In a recent interview with Coach Stephanie Mock, Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Performance at the University of Pittsburgh, Volt Performance Coach and Podcast Host, Tom Smalley delved into the strategies behind merging sports performance and sports science to elevate athlete development and success.

May 04, 2022

Reasons Why Fitness and Mental Health Go Hand in Hand

May 04, 2022/ Volt HQ/ Chelsea Badger, CPT, CF-L1, Pn1

You’ve heard that regular exercise is important for your physical health, but what about the effects that it can have on your *mental* health? Maybe you’ve heard about the correlation between the two, but never understood the ‘why’ of it all. Regular physical activity has been shown to have a profoundly positive effect on anxiety, depression, and ADHD.

April 07, 2022

Pre- and Post-Workout Nutrition

April 07, 2022/ Volt HQ/ Chelsea Badger, CPT, CF-L1, Pn1, Jordan Krafka

Athletes and fitness gurus are always looking for ways to improve their performance and achieve their goals. This is why knowing what to eat before and after a workout is so important. Consuming nutrients before exercising will not only help maximize your performance and minimize muscle damage, but it will also give you the energy and strength that you need to perform.

August 31, 2021

How to Prepare for In-Person and Remote Training

August 31, 2021/ Volt HQ/ Bo Pearson, CSCS, TSAC-F

For some, facilities have been completely shut down, whilst others are limited by time or minimal equipment. These scenarios make it difficult for coaches to provide resources that still allow for physical development and preparation. Fortunately, this is a problem that Volt is helping thousands of coaches solve!

In this article, I’m going to show you how the #VoltFamily gets it done.

August 04, 2021

Employee Spotlight: James Kit Moreland, Ph.D.

August 04, 2021/ Volt HQ/ Jessica Bultman

Welcome to the Volt Employee Spotlight Blog Series! We talk a lot about Volt HQ, and we thought this series would be a great way to get to know our amazing and talented team that brings Volt to life. Volt is a special organization, and that is largely due to the team that works on it everyday.

For our first entry into this blog post series, please meet Kit! 👋 Kit joined our company as a Data Scientist about three years ago, but recently transitioned to our engineering team.

May 20, 2021

Nutrition For Injury Recovery

May 20, 2021/ Volt HQ/ Chelsea Badger, CPT, CF-L1, Pn1

When 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!

May 05, 2021

Prepare for the ACFT with These Three Essential At-home Training Tools

May 05, 2021/ Volt HQ/ Chris Frankel, PhD

While 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.

April 22, 2021

Strength Testing for Baseball Players

April 22, 2021/ Volt HQ/ Bo Pearson, CSCS, TSAC-F

When 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.

March 25, 2021

Announcing the Launch of Our New Website

March 25, 2021/ Volt HQ/ Jessica Bultman, Alexa Morang, Kyle Smurdon

At 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.

December 26, 2020

Top Volt Upgrades of 2020

December 26, 2020/ Volt HQ/ Bo Pearson, CSCS, TSAC-F

Did 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.

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