November 01, 2021

Feature Announcement: Volt Chat

November 01, 2021/ Volt HQ/ Christye Estes

If you haven’t heard the latest from Volt HQ this week, we just released our new in-app messaging feature: Volt Chat! Whether you’re sitting at your desktop computer or on-the-go with your phone, Volt Chat lets coaches and personal trainers communicate seamlessly and instantaneously with their athletes, teams, and clients—without leaving the coach platform. When you send a message through Volt Chat, your athletes receive a push notification on their phone.

October 20, 2021

Conference Recap: National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA) Tactical Annual Training

October 20, 2021/ Volt HQ/ Dustin Peyton

In this article, you're going to get an insider's summary of my experience attending the National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA) Tactical Annual Training event, held in Norfolk, VA at the end of August. If you (the reader) are in any way involved in government, military, ROTC, private tech, strength training, academic research, fire/rescue, or law enforcement, my overall report is that there is much to be excited about.

September 23, 2021

4 Ways to Strengthen Your Employees' Health & Wellbeing

September 23, 2021/ Volt HQ/ Sarah Ray, TSAC-F, USAW, CCFT, XPS, FMS, CMES

Today, nearly 70% of the American workforce is still working from home and while employees are trying to manage this collision of work and personal life, employers are struggling to support their existing workforce, let alone offer benefits that attract and retain top talent moving forward.

September 07, 2021

Employee Spotlight: Stephen James

September 07, 2021/ Volt HQ/ Jessica Bultman

In this month's Employee Spotlight, we are featuring Stephen James. 👋 Stephen joined our company as a Customer Support Specialist about three years ago, and he has continued to grow his career at Volt. He is now a Customer Experience Manager, ensuring the members of our #VotlFamily have the best experience with us!

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 18, 2021

New Course: Periodization for Athletic Performance

August 18, 2021/ Volt HQ/ Bo Pearson, CSCS, TSAC-F

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!

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.

June 28, 2021

How Ditching Carbs Can Hurt You

June 28, 2021/ Ashley Bent, MS, RDN, CD

Carbs 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.

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.

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