162 Games, No Days Off: How Baseball Performance Staff Protect Players Through the Grind
The MLB season is the longest, most relentless schedule in professional sport. Here is how the best performance departments keep players available when availability is everything. No other professi...
The First Six Weeks: Why the Season Start Is the Highest-Risk Period for Squad Availability
The new season does not ease you in. Within days of the opening fixture, squads are managing the full weight of competitive football: high-intensity match loads, travel, and, for clubs in European ...
From Camp to Week 1: How NFL Performance Staff Manage the Transition Into the Regular Season
The weeks between training camp and opening day are among the most physically consequential in the NFL calendar. John Griffin, Director of Player Performance at the Atlanta Falcons, explains how th...
What You Need to Know to Use BFR Safely
BFR is safe when it's applied properly, and the evidence on that is strong and consistent. It's also far easier to apply properly than it used to be. Much of what once made BFR fiddly- judging pres...
Why Most BFR Education Doesn’t Prepare You for Performance Sport
The science isn’t the problem. The transfer is. There’s no shortage of BFR education. You can find a certification this weekend, learn the physiology, pass the assessment and walk away with a cer...
Why Availability Wins: Mike Potenza on Maintaining Performance Through an NHL Season
At the highest level of sport, performance isn't defined by what an athlete can produce once. It's defined by what they can reproduce again and again. Few environments test that more than the NHL....
Do You Need a BFR Certification?
The real test was never a certificate. It's whether you can work from the evidence, and keep it current. BFR sits inside the existing scope of practice for most of the practitioners already using i...