MAKE CHANGES EASIER If you have been executing a skill a certain way for a long period of time the skill motor pathway will be well ingrained in your nervous system and muscles. To make changes in your technique at this time, is usually extremely difficult and many times impossible if you do not put […]
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Will your training prevent injury? After reading an article on a professional baseball player, I couldn’t help but wonder what kind of conditioning or training he was doing. This particular player has only been able to play a minimum number of games the last three years. The rest of the time he had been injured
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Is diagnosis left to the athlete? It is not uncommon to read about high-level athletes, especially in sports such as baseball, basketball and football, who state that they must overcome physical shortcomings or that they do not have the physical talent that other athletes possess. They experience injuries that are not common to other athletes
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Are coaches holding back their athletes progress? Coaches and instructors, especially those in the private sector, have gotten to be very competitive. They need athletes to make money — and the more winning athletes they have, the more money they make and the more they are considered to be successful. However, I often wonder if
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What do we mean by basics? It is not uncommon to hear coaches speak of teaching the “basics”. Teams having problems say they are going back to the basics or talk about the need to teach the basics. As a result, one is left with the impression that basics are an integral part of the
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