When a player makes a leaping catch, hit or shot in various sports it is usually considered a unique skill, often acquired when playing some other sport in the early years. In other words, the ability to leap high is a talent that was learned or developed in another sport, not the sport in which […]
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In working with some young female tennis players who were ranked fairly high in the junior standings, I ran into several problems that seem to be standard practice in tennis development today. These players were considered to be up-and-coming stars and were brought to me for increases in strength for greater power in their groundstrokes.
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After watching the remaining games of the World Cup after the US lost, I kept thinking that things might have been different if the team’s pre-World Cup training regime was different. Understand that there were four-a-day workouts during a grueling training camp at Stanford. At the World Cup where you can see elite soccer at
It is often assumed that if a team is successful, as for example, when it wins a championship, it must have some athlete training secrets. This means that the team is doing something new and different in their methods, exercises or exercise execution. It is these new methods or exercises being used that makes the
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The number and severity of running injuries appears to be constant from year to year. Approximately 80% of all runners receive an injury during the year! In reality, the number may be increasing because of a greater number of runners. Most running experts attribute the increase in rrunninginjuries to lack of attention to the basic