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Beating Underperformance with Visualization

Underperformance, especially on the big stage, is one thing that athletes face constantly. But the pressures of a high stakes situation can cause anyone, in any pro...

5 Ways to Supercharge Your Muscle Building Workout

We all see the people at the gym lifting weights day in and day out for years while seemingly not getting any stronger. Maybe this is you? I’ve ...

2 Ways Meditation Can Increase Your Workout Results

You probably know the health benefits of physical exercise: The release of endorphins in your brain The decreased risk of chronic diseases Longevity Overall physi...

Improving Your Golf Game with Dawn to Dusk

The PGA championships are ahead of us! Which reminds me of a couple of questions I get from my golf buddies right around this time. What does it take to maintain athletic focus at a consis...

Choosing a Workout Plan

Ready, Set, GO! So you’re ready to get after it. You have a goal in mind and you can’t wait to get started. Now what? How do you turn your goal and your motivation into results? More t...

Setting Goals That Matter

I’ve previously written about motivation and having a plan, but I read something recently about goals that made me think. The other day, one of my favorite comedians made an interesting po...

Staying Motivated: Lessons From a Trauma Surgeon

I have a confession to make. Last summer was bad for me. I ate almost anything that was in front of me, I worked out in fits and spurts, and I struggled with motivation. We all do it and no...

Thoughts from the End of the Bench

Welcome to the layman’s corner of the BrickHouse Blog. You may be wondering what some random surgeon in California is doing writing on this site full of highly qualified experts. And to you ...

Goal Setting Athletes

For this blog I thought it would be good to go back and look at goal setting for your athletes. I feel like the best way to start is to have the athlete go back over their previous season ...

3-Point & Block Start

BASELINE START POSITION My baselines are relatively simple to get to. You wont need measuring tape or anything craz...

Running and Running Form

In this blog I’m going to be talking a little bit about sprinting/running form and common mistakes I see when training athletes. Most of the time when I see athletes begin to run, or are c...

Battling Hunger

My football career came to an end in 2015 at the ripe old weight of 315 lbs. Before I go into my weight loss story, I should make the disclaimer that it wasn’t ever content with being 315,...

Artery Stiffness and Muscle Recovery

Taurine supplementation attenuates delayed increase in exercise-induced arterial stiffness Lifting for athletes is an essential component of peak performance, but is known to tak...

Lineman Strength and Conditioning

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELECTED STRENGTH AND POWER ASSESSMENTS TO PEAK AND AVERAGE VELOCITY In football, each position requires certain traits to excel, which may be completely...

Why Did I Plateau?

I have always had a special love for the weight training side of football. Toward the end of my college career I considered myself fairly strong among football athletes, but in the last ye...

Psychology of Doping

The Psychology Behind Doping in Sport I first read this article expecting to see an unbiased look at the side effects both physically and mentally from taking steroids, but this was n...

Nutritional Ketosis in Athletes

Nutritional Ketosis Alters Fuel Preferenceand Thereby Endurance Performance in Athletes This article brings up the discussion of ketosis’s role in sports once again, but this time thr...

Pragmatism in Low-Carb Athletics

Starting at an early age, I had already begun internally challenging nutritional rhetoric. As a kid, breakfast cereal was my jam, but I still remember that while I sat at the table, slurpi...

Top 3 Things a Coach Must Realize

1. Respect is earned. This past year I came into the track and field program at The University of Mount Olive in Mount Olive NC. As a new young coach, I knew one of the things I would ...

Nutrition and Eating Habits

As a college coach one of the things I have a hard time with is my athlete’s eating habits. I cannot tell you how many times I have asked my athletes when the last time they ate was and th...

Injury and Confidence

The hardest part about coming back from an injury is regaining the confidence to compete again at 100%. I can remember getting hurt my junior year with a minor hamstring injury. After reha...

Training the Youth Part 1

Youth training is becoming a more important component of the athletic process. With the decline of PE classes, the popularities of phones and the influence of club sports over school sport...

Training the Youth Part 2

The process for getting your child training starts way before you see that they have room for improvement. Playing as many sports as possible from a young age is a great way to develop a m...

Giving Credit

When I was approached to start writing for Brickhouse I was excited to do so, however I had a small hesitation in my chest knowing that everything I would eventually write about would simp...

Caffeine’s Effect on Professional Golfer Performance

This article examined the effect of caffeine supplementation throughout a 36-hole golf study over the course of 2-days (18 holes each day). As an incentive for performance a $1000 purse wa...

Key to Dieting

Dieting. The hot topic all the time when people are eating food. The hot topic when people are training. Which diet to do? Which diet works best? Is there someone who always tells you how...

Effects of a Ketogenic vs Standard Diet in Obese Men

This article is the ultimate showdown. In dieting, is a calorie just a calorie, or is there an effect from entering a ketosis state by removing most carbohydrates from the diet? There hav...

Afraid "Bulking" Will Hurt Your Golf Game? 2

For some training for this sport in the gym may be a strange thing to hear. The first thing we have to realize when you analyze the golf swing is that it is entirely imbalanced if all we ...

Field of Greens Meals

Field of Greens Shakes

Afraid "Bulking" Will Hurt Your Golf Game?

      People have been asking me what sport am I currently on and how am I training. Right now the sport of choice is golf. Why did I choose this? It seems to be the complete opposite ...

Fixing Posture in the Modern World

Posture is important and everybody knows it, but why?           Posture is important and everybody knows it, but why? The human body is a masterpiece that is set up to function heal ...

Fix Your Daily Regiment

Hello Brickhouse Family. The Architect here. I want to thank you guys for stopping by and reading this blog. I want to share with you what's been on my mind lately in regards to my dai...