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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The relationships between strength, technique and game performance are somewhat complex. As a result there is often confusion as to the effects of strength training not only in relation to the athlete’s technique and level of performance, but also to his or her age and maturation level. Because of the many variables, the effects of
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Salaries of professional athletes keep increasing on a yearly basis. But yet, performances on the field by athletes have not been increasing at a proportionate rate – unless you believe that mediocrity equals high-level performance. Rather than looking at how well the athlete performs on the field, owners appear to be looking more at competing
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Strength, the ability to create and/or maintain force, is perhaps the most important physical quality for success in sports. The main reason for this is that strength is related to many other physical and mental qualities. For example: 1) Strength is needed to assume and maintain static and dynamic posture. In execution of sports skills,
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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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