According to various sources, you get an imbalance between the hip extensor muscles (gluteals and hamstrings) and the hip flexor muscles (iliopsoas, pectineus and rectus femoris of the quadriceps group) from running. According to these running specialists, weak gluteals and hamstrings do not allow you to “swing through” your stride. The hip flexors are then […]
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You can find many articles dealing with core training that are supposedly designed to improve athletic performance. However, I have not seen any follow-up studies indicating whether performance has indeed been improved. There are probably many reasons for this lack of information. Foremost is that checking to see if performance has indeed been improved may
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How do you know when you have a workout that produces changes that allow you to do more the next time you workout, i.e., run farther or run faster? Understand that when you workout and get a positive training effect, you create changes in the body that allow you to perform even more or better
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Of all the common injuries that athletes experience, the most frequently occurring one is to the fingers or hand. In spite of this, most scholastic, collegiate and professional athletes do not incorporate specific finger strengthening exercises into their programs. It is possible to find some athlete squeezing a ball, but this is as far as
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The answer to the question of whether football coaches can be better at evaluating players should be a strong, positive yes. However, practice indicates that the trend seems to be going in the opposite direction; coaches are doing worse at evaluating players especially future players. Coaches deal with the players on a regular basis and
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