Evolutionary Athletics

Welcome to Evolutionary Athletics the leading source of cutting edge sports performance training information.  We are a collection of sports performance coaches, sport scientists, strength and conditioning coaches, doctors and chiropractors.  Based out of the San Francisco Bay Area we have had the pleasure of working with athletes in a variety of endeavors including football, [...]

These active stretches are the brainchild of my friend Colin.  They are excellent!

1) tuck chin hard and pull shoulder blades back together, really stretch the pec minor and hold for 20secs

2) tuck chin, pull shoulders down and internally rotates arms as hard as you can and hold for 20secs. Arms will be locked straight

3) the [...]

For those who don’t know you, if you could give us a brief background about who you are that would be excellent?

I am a speed trainer. I work mostly with people who want to improve their speed ranging from middle school kids to Olympic athletes. I have been involved with Inno-sport which, when died, changed [...]

We are proud to announce our first formal Guest Forum featuring vertical jump expert, industry watchdog, and overall good guy Jack Woodrup from Vertical Jumping.com.

Jack will be here from Feb 14 through Feb 21 to answer all of YOUR questions

Jack has recently released Vertical Mastery his new vertical jump training software program.

So please join me [...]

We have added an exercise index to our website.  Please notice the tab at the top left hand side of the screen.  In addition You can view the exercise index by clicking here.

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Recently the following dilemma has been posed on another site that I frequent:

How come we preach to perform depth jumps for maximal height as opposed to the more common way of minimizing ground contact time (GCT)?

Here was my reply:

Shorter ground contacts are better at improving “reactive ability”. If you read Verkhoshansky’s work you [...]

Well our series is drawing to a close. This article may be the simplest of the articles to date. Our exercise menu is small yet diverse. First we break down movement into basic categories:

Squatting

Lunging

Hip Extension

Knee Flexion

Upper Body Push

Upper [...]

Methods

So we have covered a ton of information in the previous parts of this series. To get up to date please check out:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

When discussing Looking back at training mode we see a general breakdown of exercise modalities, strength, power, and quickness. In the next sections I will briefly [...]

Just jump into it

Monday, June 08, 2009
By Alex Vasquez

Months, and years, ago I purchased all of the WGF DVD’s. These DVD’s cover proper core function, exercises to activate and ingrain proper core and glute movement patterns, and finally the integration of the movement patterns into complex exercises like the squat and lunge. The [...]

Sadly this is going to turn more into an angry, pissed off rant than anything really informative.  Some of you might get a little out of this, but more or less, this is going to be a way for me to release some pent-up steam.  This has been brewing for a while watching the atrocities [...]