To swing pain free and to hold the normal curvature of the spine during the swing, you should strengthen the muscles involved with the back raise exercise. This is the only exercise that strengthens the lower back muscles through the full range of motion. By doing the back raise you will also find that you […]
Most golf instructors will correctly tell you to bend over from the hips when assuming your stance. Even exercise trainers correctly advise their clients to bend from the hips when doing exercises such as the squat, good morning and dead lift. It is usually taken for granted that you know how to do this. However,
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Athleticism refers not only to physical development but to motor skills. The latter applies to your ability to execute different movements, techniques and coordination that are involved in a particular sport. In general, a person who has a high level of athleticism is one who is capable of executing all or most of the basic
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It appears that developing athleticism is a primary goal of coaches on the high school, collegiate and professional levels. Substantiation for this comes from the emphasis placed on physical conditioning. It is believed that by developing greater levels of strength, speed, power, agility etc., these qualities will automatically transfer to the skills possessed by the
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More and more often we hear of teams looking for athletes who possess “athleticism”. Scouts and franchise veterans talk about a need for the teams to become more athletic and to invest heavily in ” live-body” athletes. In essence, they want teams to look at more than just the statistics that the athlete has compiled
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