Volt's Remote Training How-to Guide

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Volt's Remote Training How-to Guide

At-home training. Remote learning. Virtual events. Zoom. Facetime. Google meets. We are now living in times that require alternative tools and strategies in order to reach the goals we have for ourselves and our athletes.

These ideas are based on the practical experience of hundreds of conversations with the thousands of athletes, coaches, and PE teachers that we serve each and every day at Volt, and the following article will briefly discuss each idea.

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Returning to Sports Post-COVID: Where Public Health and Strength & Conditioning Meet

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Returning to Sports Post-COVID: Where Public Health and Strength & Conditioning Meet

As we re-open America and return to what we have started to call “the new normal,” how do we go from at-home body weight workouts and driveway hoops (perhaps inspired by The Last Dance) to assembling with our team to practice, train, compete, and offer friendship? Or for the opportunity to be a spectator or a sports parent and experience the joy of sports?

This question is definitely the hot topic and being asked not only in the sports arena but everywhere else–restaurants, the entertainment industry, schools, the workplace, everywhere.

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Training during COVID-19: Back to the Basics of Movement, Health & Sports Science

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Training during COVID-19: Back to the Basics of Movement, Health & Sports Science

This may be a good time to re-set and return to the basics. Re-set not only our basic movement patterns and strength training regimen but also slow down; keep it local; re-connect with our neighborhood; play backyard and playground games; find simplicity and solitude; reading; self-assess who we are and what matters; appreciate humanity, etc.

And finally, let’s keep in mind the social connections that humans need to sustain quality of life. Yes, physical activity, strength training, nutrition, sleep, stress reduction and relaxation are all important to health and well-being, but when it comes down to it, the number 1 determinant of happiness and a good life is…positive social relationships.

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