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by John Cortese | May 21, 2011 | Agility Training, Baseball Training, Basketball Training, Featured Posts, Football Training, Recent Posts, Speed Training | 2 comments I get asked this question all the time.. “What can I do to get faster for (insert sports here) ?!” My number one answer for this, regardless of the age or athlete most of the time is “Get stronger, improve your mobility, improve your […]

by John Cortese | May 20, 2011 | Audio, Featured Posts, Nutrition, Recent Posts, Strength Coach Interviews, Strength Training | 0 comments Hey guys, I’ve got another great audio interrogation for you today, one you’ll for sure want to listen to and take notes on! I interviewed strength and conditioning coach and warehouse gym owner Travis Stoetzel about a wide variety of subject related to making you look, feel,

by John Cortese | May 19, 2011 | Audio, Featured Posts, Recent Posts, Strength Coach Interviews, Strength Training | 0 comments What’s up guys? Real quickly, I have another great audio interrogation for you with a good friend of mine and fellow strength coach out of Omaha, Nebraska by the name of Joe Chizek. This audio interview I conducted with Joe covered some great topics, including how

by John Cortese | May 13, 2011 | Featured Posts, Nutrition, Recent Posts, Strength Training | 0 comments Part 1 in a Series of Posts about Sports Nutrition for Athletes… A few of my younger 12 year old athletes showed up a bit early for their training session the other day, so we had some extra time to kill before we started. They had both

by John Cortese | May 5, 2011 | Audio, Featured Posts, Nutrition, Recent Posts, Strength Coach Interviews, Strength Training | 2 comments Hey guys, Hope you’re having a great day. Weather is starting to get HOT and that means it’s getting even hotter inside the gym. So make sure you bring an extra bottle or two of water with you to training! No excuses! Anyways, today I have a special

by John Cortese | Apr 29, 2011 | Featured Posts, Recent Posts, Strength Training | 2 comments The push-up is an awesome upper body strength exercise and highly effective at getting young athletes very strong without even touching a barbell. The fact of the matter is most young athletes that come to train with us at CTS really have never been taught how to

by John Cortese | Apr 28, 2011 | Featured Posts, Football Training, Recent Posts, Speed Training | 0 comments As football season approaches, more and more athletes, parents, and coaches in Napa have been asking me how they can get their young athletes in shape and ready to dominate the football season. It’s very unfortunate that most of these young athletes aren’t doing much if

by John Cortese | Feb 2, 2011 | Announcements, Recent Posts | 0 comments Hey guys, Hope you’re all having a great Wednesday. Halfway there til the weekend! Couple things to mention, then I’ll get to the main point of this post (referral contest!). 1.) In the month of January, CTS saw 10 new athletes join to get better for their sport! Now that’s some

by John Cortese | Jan 5, 2011 | Announcements, Featured Posts, Recent Posts | 0 comments I have a question for you… Are you REALLY ready to get better? If you are, watch the video below.. Get ready to get inspired by Will Smith. This will make you question your work ethic and challenge you to make some serious decisions about how bad you

by John Cortese | Dec 28, 2010 | Announcements, Recent Posts | 0 comments Hey, With 2010 coming to a close and 2011 coming up faster than I could have realized, I figured I’d give you some reasons why training at CTS is your BEST option if you wish to get stronger, faster, more explosive, leaner , etc etc etc..I won’t drag this