Many athletes who excel in basketball also excel in volleyball. One reason for this is that the training for basketball or volleyball has many similar features. Because of this, you can use some of the same exercises and training routines that are specific to volleyball for basketball, and vice versa. For example, both basketball and
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Because of the difficulty in distinguishing different level athletes and looking at sports performance in relation to age and level of maturation, I believe it may be worthwhile to examine what is known as the funnel effect. It is used to describe the progression from the early years of participation in sports through to the
There appears to be an increasing number of articles that deal with strengthening the glutes. In each of them there is little to no distinction made between the three “gluteus” muscles: gluteus maximus, gluteus medius and gluteus minimus. It is assumed that all glute exercises involve these three muscles and develop them equally. For example,
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If you closely examine the technique involved in execution of the lower body movements made by athletes in a variety of sports, you can see that they are very similar to the movements executed in running and running cutting actions. With, and even without, slight modifications in specialized strength and explosive running exercises, it is
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In looking for a few articles in the Soviet Sports Review (later named the Fitness and Sports Review International) I came across several great running articles. They not only reminded me how so little of this information has permeated US literature but how the Russians (former Soviets) were very practical and thorough in their research.
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