With the increased attention being focused on technique, many athletes are now becoming more interested in learning how they can become more knowledgeable about what is involved in their particular sport. However, there is also a large contingent of athletes and coaches who believe that more knowledge about the sport does not equate to better […]
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Many tennis players train for additional strength in order to improve their performance. Strength is needed and it plays a very important role.But the main physical qualities needed by tennis players are speed and quickness. Speed is not limited to only running; it is involved in movement of the limbs and body in different actions.
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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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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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In recent years there has been considerably more interest in the production of vertical forces to improve speed in running. What has not been talked about is how the vertical forces supposedly improve running speed and how vertical forces can be increased or decreased. If you have been running for many years, most likely you
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