It’s that time of year in football when coaches are being fired and hired. Coaches typically get fired from one team and then hired by another. Some of these coaches achieve great success with the new team while others can leave a successful program and end up with a losing season with a new team. […]
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If you are like most runners you probably get confused after reading about the many shoes that are available and their purported benefits. Because of this many runners simply take the advice of fellow runners who have experienced wearing some of the different shoes. But if you listen to the hype put out by the
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There are several major categories of research that apply to the sports world. Fairly common is the biomechanics of skills or movement patterns such as running and throwing. One type of research that is relatively new and practical is the biomechanics of sports technique. This type of the research differs from the biomechanics of a
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A trend that doesn’t appear to be abating in the fitness and athletic worlds, is core stability training. The core and stability training has taken many different forms. Most popular however, is to do a strength exercise on an unstable surface so that you must not only overcome the resistance, but balance yourself at the
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Always using the same grip in a strength exercise will not allow you to fully develop the target muscle. Best is to use a variety of grips to produce fuller and more varied development. For example, a pronated grip press-down targets mainly the medial head of the triceps. A supinated grip targets mainly the lateral
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