Jacob Tober, BEx&SpS is an ASCA certified coached and ESSA accredited Sports scientist.
With seven years experience working in private and semi-elite strength and conditioning, Jacob splits his time between his role as a high performance coach with his role as head of education for Core Advantage researching, writing and developing educational content for social media and the Core Advantage Mentorship and short courses.
Since 2017, Jacob has been working in an advisory role with Deakin University providing a coaches perspective and assisting in research design and implementation for studies exploring velocity based training and power development.
Articles by Jacob Tober
- Beep Test Training Program: How to Raise Your Score in 8 Weeks
- How to Increase Your Vertical for Basketball (At Home)
- How to Increase Your Vertical Jump for Volleyball
- Is Jump Height Genetic? What You Can (and Can't) Change
- How to Dunk a Basketball: The Complete Guide
- How to Palm a Basketball: Grip Strength for Dunking
- Plyometrics to Jump Higher: The Complete Guide
- How Many Calf Raises to Do at Home for Stronger Calves
- Exercises to Increase Your Vertical Jump: A Weekly Plan
- What Is a Good Vertical Jump, and How to Measure Yours
- How important is strength for jumping higher?
- Improve your jumping technique with these tips
- How Can I Dunk in Two Weeks?
- Why Can't I Jump High? The Science of Improving Your Vertical Leap
- Olympic Weightlifting or Plyometrics for Vertical Jump?
- Stretching for athletes: Kneeling hip flexor stretch
- Our Combine Infographics
- Are Sit Ups Bad for You?
- What Every Cyclist Should Know About Injury Prevention
- Do Calf Raises Help Shin Splints? Yes, But Not the Way You Think
- Stretches for Shin Splints
- What causes shin splints?
- When Nike invented jogging: The history of the running shoe
- The Problem With Heel Striking When You Run | Why you should land on the midfoot
- Why aren’t shoes shaped like feet? A history of shoes
- Lifting weights faster | Intent: The secret of explosive athletes
- Nine physical traits that prove humans were born to run
- How to Run Faster: Tips for Injury Free Effortless Running
- Running Program for Transitioning to Barefoot Shoes (Minimalist/Zero Drop)
- The Conditioning Continuum: Is it possible to get 400m fit without running further than 50m?
- Maintaining fitness over the summer holidays
- 5 Elite Habits Every Athletes Can Do Now (for free)
- Bulgarian Split Squat or Rear Foot Elevated Split Squat?
- Maximise Performance and Reduce Injury with Elite Warmups
- Medicine Balls, Wall Balls and Dead Balls, which one is right for me?
- Training When Injured, the Ultimate Guide
- An Athletes guide to Tapering for Peak Performance
- Three Supplements for Winter
- 48,360 hours of muscular creep
- Acute to Chronic Workload Ratio: Managing Errors in Training Load
- Ankle Sprain/Ankle Injury Prevention & Rehabilitation Training
- Anti-Desk: Fixing Texting Neck
- Anti-Desk workout: 5-minute hips and lower back
- Anti-Valgus Training Tips: Gluteus Medius
- Are Roches Killing Your Athleticism?
- Become Instantly Stronger: Creating Bar Tension/Picking Up the Slack
- Biomechanics of the spine - posture, forces and structures
- Breakfast for Dinner? Science says yes!
- Do you need protein shakes to improve performance?
- Does Cardio Kill Your Gains?
- Drills to Improve your Knee Drive for Sprinting and Acceleration
- Four Reasons My Brother Beat Me Over 50m
- Front Side vs Back Side Mechanics: What makes Better Sprinters
- Game Fit - The Best Training Method to Improve Fitness During the Preseason
- Best Gym Shoes: Top Sneaker and Shoe Options to Lift Weights
- High Intensity Interval Training for Athletes: Repeat Sprints for Sport Specific Fitness
- High Protein Breakfast: Homemade Baked Beans
- How Not to Interview: A Lesson for Fitness Professionals
- How to do a Chin Up & Pull Up Properly: The Problem and Solution
- Increase Strength and Hypertrophy with these Plateau Busting Gym Program Ideas
- Instant Strength: Push the Ground Away
- Is Sleep Deprivation Killing your Athleticism?
- Isometrics: A powerful workout tool to increase strength and rehab injuries
- Mailbag: General nutrition advice
- Mini Desk Workout: Fix a Slouched Posture
- Neutral Spine: How to Deadlift and Squat Without Hurting Your Back
- Reinventing the Shoulder
- Rockstar Muscles: Multifidus
- Rules for Buying Sneakers: A guide for Basketball, Volleyball, Netball and Tennis
- Saturation Vs. Deficiency: Fill your empty buckets
- Split Workout: Is it worth the extra effort?
- Sprint Unification Theory
- Summer time Oats & Yoghurt
- Sweet potato or White? And a Killer Baked Potato Recipe
- The #1 Factor in Ankle and Hamstring Injuries (Hint: it's the same for both!)
- The Athletic Combine Part 1: The Tests and Why They Matter
- The Athletic Combine Part 2: Interpreting your Athletic Testing Results
- The Fat Burning Zone Myth and 11 Other Ways High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) Improves Fitness
- The Power of Placebo
- The Push:Pull Ratio
- The World's Best Spin Bike HIIT Workout: How To do 8:12 Intervals
- Training the core for performance
- Training Tips to Increase Strength on the Bench Press
- Two Cues for Better Acceleration
- What is a Trigger Point/Knot and How do They Work?
- What is Fatigue? Causes of Fatigue
- Why is My Back Sore? The Reasons We Get Lower Back Pain
- Workout Soreness: What Causes DOMS?