Giovanni Grassi is an NSCA-CSCS-certified sports performance specialist at the Parisi Speed School in Fair Lawn, N.J., where he trains athletes in speed and agility and develops sport-specific training programs for high school and college athletes.
Giovanni Grassi
Increase Your Hitting Power With 4 Key Exercises
Imagine standing at the plate staring down a pitcher with a 90-mph fastball hurdling toward you. You make slight adjustments to your form and position...
Why Athletes Need to Learn to Land Before Performing Jump Training
Jumping - the ability to displace ones center of mass. Vertical jump training can indicate whether an athlete has a great potential for speed, simply by...
Off-Season Baseball Exercises for Your Shoulders
When we think of baseball workouts, the perception that comes to mind is the usual external and internal rotational shoulder workouts, mixed in with...
10 Reasons Why You're Not Getting Faster
Developing speed is a skill, and requires a specific way of speed training. Doing so requires addition and subtraction of many exercises and methods...
Advanced High School Football Summer Conditioning Program
Football trianing is a year round job and football workouts should be specialized. Preparing your players for the upcoming season is what the off-season...
Biceps Workouts: 5-Way Circuit for Athletes
Hyperextension joint injuries are pretty common in sports. The most common one is in the elbow. Bicep workouts serve more than just the common "curls...
Athlete Nutrition: Focus on These 5 Things
As an athlete, you've probably heard over and over again that you must do what is necessary to become greater than you were yesterday. The truth of the...
Does Loss of Sleep Have Same Effects as Sports Head Injuries?
As the years grow we find it harder to find time to get a great 8 hours of sleep at night, which is recommended by most physicians. Not getting a full...
5 Ways to Fight Osgood-Schlatter Pain
It has been estimated that over 30 million young children participate in organized sports in the U.S. With this growing number of participants, also...
Full Body Workout: 6-Week Conditioning Plan
There are many ways to perform a full body workout, but are you targeting all the muscles you really need to? This full body workout that I will be...
