Category: Blog

There aren’t many sports where speed is not a huge asset.  The quest to get faster is what I hear from athletes and parents 95% of the time at my gym, the Boost Performance Center in Corona CA.  The ability to gain speed is accessible to every athlete who’s willing to work for it, though […]

Dear Student-Athletes, in the wake of George Floyd… You Have a Voice at Boost As a gym/private school owner I wear different hats with my student-athletes.  As a certified strength and conditioning specialist my job is to provide science based programs to improve athletic performance.  As a coach, I need to motivate my athletes to […]

Here at the Boost Performance Center in Corona CA, we know that any good strength & conditioning coach (such as myself *wink*) is constantly looking at the data derived from their athletes in order to drive results: How much has an athlete’s speed improved? Have they gotten stronger? What asymmetries may exist? Injury history? Overall […]

To Boost athletes, parents, friends, and community members –  Ray and I hope this message finds you and your families well. It seems every few days we’re hit with a new wave of guidelines and recommendations for how businesses and the public can manage our way through this COVID-19 landscape. We have a tentative reopen […]

Let’s be straight here, training to improve speed, power, and strength isn’t easy.  It’s a simple concept that to get faster you run more and to get stronger you lift more, but it’s definitely not easy.  While many unique variables exist for each athlete, the amount of time and effort required to see real gains […]

As a strength and conditioning coach it’s my belief that youth athletes (ages 9-18) need less specificity and more variety when it comes to their athletic development.  Specificity becomes more important with age and athletic maturity.  At my gym, the Boost Performance Center in Corona CA, we work on different movements daily to reduce monotony […]

All good performance coaches know that beyond the grit and grind of the weight room, or the pursuit of perfect technique, or even the strict demands of a well balanced diet lies the key to personal athletic achievement: The mind. In his book The Mindful Athlete by George Mumford he tells us “It’s only in […]

Once upon a time, when I was a kid (only a measly 20yrs ago) we played baseball during baseball season, football during football season, and soccer during soccer season.  Being a multi sport athlete was far from rare, and young athletes had the opportunity to work on different facets of their athleticism by playing different […]

One of the more tedious but crucial aspects of performance training is properly fueling our bodies.  This can at times be the missing piece to improved performance for so many athletes, but many misconceptions exist when it comes to a proper diet.   Most athletes’ level of understanding exists on a spectrum where one side […]

At our facility, the Boost Performance Center in Corona, CA, we work on a variety of different movements athletes will use when participating in their sport.  When people think of Speed Training linear (straight ahead) speed is typically what comes to mind. But a good speed development program will also incorporate agility and change of […]