Some of the major muscles of the thigh on both the anterior (the quadriceps femoris group), and posterior (the hamstring group) sides are two-jointed muscles. In essence, they have an action at the knee joint and an action at the hip joint. Thus to develop these muscles fully you must stretch and stabilize one end […]
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In the last few years, there has been increased interest in the Soviet system of training. Coaches are finding out that the Russians had many unique methods of training that helped them develop great Olympic performers and world record holders. We now there realize it was not because of drug use. The success of the
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If you read or listen to the analyses of why football teams lose on both the professional and collegiate levels, you most often hear some of the following reasons: there were too many missed tackles; too many turnovers; too many dropped passes; poor or lack of good blocking; receivers unable to get free of defenders;
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The belief that you can get athletes to overachieve is common on the collegiate level and even more so on the professional level. This belief is so ingrained that coaches believe that their job is to find the key to unlock the abilities of the athletes so that the athletes overachieve, or at a minimum,
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One of the distinguishing features of a high-level sprinter is the high knee position on pushoff. To practice getting high knees in running, coaches do drills in which the athlete raises the knees upward in a repetitive fashion. As result, the athlete learns to drive the knees upward during the pushoff. The high knees in
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