Strength and conditioning coaches maintain that all athletes should continue weight training during the season for various reasons. Most prominent is that the athletes must maintain their already achieved levels of strength. I think everyone can agree with this objective. Maintenance of strength during the season is especially important for maintaining reliable execution of the […]
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The trend in most sports today is to develop greater levels of strength. This is probably due to the presence of strength and conditioning coaches on most athletic teams who believe that greater strength is the key to greater success on the field, court or ring. Can this however, be substantiated? To gain more strength,
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When you should drive off the rear leg to produce power in the swing is often debated. This applies to not only to the swing in golf but also to baseball, tennis and other sports in which you swing an implement to hit a ball or other object. According to some professional instructors you should
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It is great to see all the attention now being focused on hip rotation and the role that it plays in throwing and hitting actions. I have been emphasizing the role of hip rotation in many skills for over thirty years so it is especially nice to see that this important action is now being
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In the aim of preventing injuries many teams are now giving serious attention to the ability to predict injuries. They consider this to be the last frontier in terms of what can be done to analyze player performance. However, is this ability to predict injuries really the last frontier? I believe the ability to predict
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