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One very simple yet powerful exercise to improve your balance!

Improving Balance: yes/yes no/no from Taylor Kruse on Vimeo.

 

A seemingly simple but powerful exercise for improving balance! 

  1. Find a safe but challenging position. You should be working hard but not falling over.
  2. Use your thumb or a pen as your target and make sure it's centered in...
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What performance training looks like for Elite Athletes at TMP

Performance Training for Elite Athletes | TMP from Taylor Kruse on Vimeo.

When you want the advantage and you go looking for help, do you get excited when you find "more of the same" or "completely different?"

Welcome to - completely different!

What are your goals? 

We have the tools.

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The power of choosing the right drill to support Corey with jump rope

Using brain based fitness to improve jump rope | TMP from Taylor Kruse on Vimeo.

Check out my most recent video of Corey learning to jump rope.

This is an awesome demonstration of how powerful training inputs can be to create greater performance.

The goal was to jump rope for the first...

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What is the neurology of fitness and what does it have to do with my squat?

education pain performance May 25, 2017

Most training and rehab systems are based on output.

For example, if someone is performing a squat and you notice that their knee is doing something funky, what do you do as the coach?

Most will tell the athlete to make a voluntary correction to try and fix the unwanted knee movement.

Using...

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Taylor's weekend movement seminar with local martial artists

Movement seminar for martial artists | TMP from Taylor Kruse on Vimeo.

 

Put me in a room with wall to wall mats and I feel at home.

Working with wrestlers and martial artists is always special.

They appreciate working on the little things that create the big things!

Looking forward to...

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Did you know exercising the wrong areas could make a person worse?

Did you know that exercising the wrong areas could actually make a person worse?

And, it can increase the amount of time spent experiencing pain!

Here's the deal.

Our brain is wired for survival.

It will do whatever it needs to do in order to stay alive.

Even if it's not optimal.

Oftentimes,...

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Training teen athletes is so much more than just fitness

TMP | fitness from Taylor Kruse on Vimeo.

 

To say I'm proud is an understatement.

This chick is a rockstar!

If you could only see how far she has come.

16 years old!

Started when she was 14.

Her secret?

She lives in the moment and shows up every freaking time.

No cell phone distractions.

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Strength is a key part of eliminating pain and quality of life

I am having a very interesting and exciting experience with a few chronic pain clients that has brought me back to such a simple idea.

There is no substitute for pure freaking strength!

Strong bodies generally don't hurt.

Of course my definition of strong is different from the general population...

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The secret to training speed is moving faster than you did before

education performance Apr 17, 2017

All athletes want to be faster.

Most have never truly trained for speed before.

Why?

Because just moving as fast as you can is not actually improving the speed that you can move.

It's making you better at moving at that exact speed but not any faster.

There are great benefits to moving quickly...

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Vision training post-ACL surgery

Post ACL injury training using applied neurology from Taylor Kruse on Vimeo.

 

After a total ACL reconstruction you have to ask the question, WHY?

What could have contributed to this injury?

The first thing I asked my athlete was to reenact his body positioning when he injured his knee.

He...

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