If you watch a high-level basketball game or any of the games in the March madness NCAA tournament, you’ll see many great players exhibiting phenomenal jumping ability. They seem to go 1-2 feet above their opponents and give the appearance of hanging in the air while they shoot. They are the envy of fans and […]
If you ask a typical sports nutritionist or dietitian if you should take nutritional supplements, the answer will probably be a negative. Most of them believe that a well-balanced diet is sufficient to satisfy an athlete’s needs and that athletes should be treated no differently from the general population. The same philosophy holds true for
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I often hear athletes talk about the “dumb” muscles. According to them, muscles do not have a mind of their own and only respond to the amount of weight that they must overcome in each exercise. The muscles are considered as objects to be worked so that they become bigger and stronger. To a limited
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The winter Olympic Games brought out many different articles related to how you can train like an Olympian. Many of the articles quoted former Olympic athletes to tell the average person how they can use the training exercises and methods of Olympians. Aside from some of the usual recommendations on how to train, as for
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What constitutes effective training for runners? This question is usually answered with more running at different speeds. This answer is evident if you look at the training programs of most athletes who run. It consists mainly of different kinds of running. There’s no questioning the fact that runners need different kinds of running such as
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