Which is more important for success in basketball: jump height or quickness? Most basketball players, especially young players, will usually answer jump height. But if you closely analyze a game you will see that the success achieved from being able to jump high is only witnessed a few times during the game. This is usually […]
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When players on baseball teams have difficulty getting hits to win games the hitting coach typically gets fired. This is understandable given the typical baseball mentality. It is believed that the hitting coach is responsible for players not doing well when it comes to hitting the ball. This however, is far from the truth. The
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Coaches and parents have debated when the youngster should begin serious endurance training for many years. To date they are unable to resolve this problem in a definitive manner. By serious training I mean that the athlete begins specializing in endurance running. This is why it is not uncommon to find some youngsters today beginning
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If you read or listen to the analyses of why football teams lose on both the professional and collegiate levels, you most often hear some of the following reasons: there were too many missed tackles; too many turnovers; too many dropped passes; poor or lack of good blocking; receivers unable to get free of defenders;
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The belief that you can get athletes to overachieve is common on the collegiate level and even more so on the professional level. This belief is so ingrained that coaches believe that their job is to find the key to unlock the abilities of the athletes so that the athletes overachieve, or at a minimum,
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