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by John Cortese | Sep 29, 2012 | Recent Posts, Strength Training | 0 comments One of our long-time and loyal CTS athletes, Kyle B, working up to a new PR Deadlift of 420 lbs @ 152 lbs body weight. Very impressive feat of relative body strength!! (Strength in relation to his own body weight, that’s just around 2.75 times his weight!) We

by John Cortese | Sep 29, 2012 | Baseball Training, Basketball Training, Football Training, Recent Posts, Strength Training, Vertical Jump Training | 0 comments A little compilation/highlight video of a few of our athletes working one of our core lifts and its’ variation, the Deadlift! Not much to say about it that already has been mentioned, but it pretty much kicks major a*s!! Do these with proper

by John Cortese | Sep 29, 2012 | Agility Training, Baseball Training, Basketball Training, Football Training, Recent Posts, Softball Training, Speed Training, Youth Athletes | 0 comments This is a highlight video of our 2012 Summer Speed & Agility Camp for youth athletes. We trained for 6 weeks, 3 days per week for 60 minutes per session focusing on lateral speed, linear speed development, agility, acceleration and deceleration mechanics,

by John Cortese | Sep 29, 2012 | Conditioning, MMA, Recent Posts | 0 comments We like to utilize battle rope training into many of our athlete’s training programs, as the ropes provide minimal impact to the joints while getting the heart rate up and sparing the legs from additional running or impact, if for whatever reason due to injury they cannot perform sled

by John Cortese | Apr 17, 2012 | Agility Training, Announcements, Baseball Training, Basketball Training, Featured Posts, Football Training, Recent Posts, Softball Training, Speed Training, Track and Field, Vertical Jump Training, Youth Athletes | 0 comments Hey guys, (Image Property of www.blog.stack.com) Hope all is well on your end and you’re training is going well. It’s almost THAT TIME again – yes, Summer is almost here, and with Summer comes hot weather and sunny skies.

by John Cortese | Feb 2, 2012 | Featured Posts, Football Training, Olympic Weightlifting, Recent Posts, Speed Training, Strength Training, Track and Field, Vertical Jump Training | 0 comments Hey guys, Short post today, but thought you would enjoy this video. It’s of one of our coaches, Cody, who continues to “Walk the walk” and show our athletes that he continues to be just as athletic as anyone else

by John Cortese | Jan 29, 2012 | Announcements, Featured Posts, Recent Posts | 0 comments Hi there, I hope all is well with you and you or your young athlete(s) keep getting great results in your quest to become the best version of yourself! I wanted to write you personally today for a number of reasons and let you know we have some

by John Cortese | Jan 13, 2012 | Featured Posts, Football Training, Olympic Weightlifting, Recent Posts, Speed Training, Strength Training | 0 comments It’s of my opinion that the most efficient and single best way to develop EXPLOSIVE speed and power is by utilizing the Olympic lifts (clean & jerk, snatch) and their variations into your training for continued speed, strength, and power. Obviously for an athlete, these qualities are of great importance if they

by John Cortese | Jan 5, 2012 | Announcements, Featured Posts, Recent Posts | 0 comments Hey guys, Hope you all are ready to crush this new year!! 2012 has brought many changes to CTS (in a good way) already and we are very excited to share them with you! Our hope is that by constantly improving and striving to get better, you all

by John Cortese | Nov 14, 2011 | Announcements, Featured Posts, Recent Posts, Strength Training | 0 comments I wanted to share a recent accomplishment and cool story of one of our athletes. Cody, 25, is a lifelong athlete – he doesn’t “compete” in a regular team sport any longer, but the drive and determination he has to train HARD is what brought him to