It is often assumed that if a team is successful, as for example, when it wins a championship, it must have some athlete training secrets. This means that the team is doing something new and different in their methods, exercises or exercise execution. It is these new methods or exercises being used that makes the […]
Athlete training secrets Read More »
As a rule, athletes and bodybuilders do exercises in a way that creates isolation of the muscle or involves several muscles when doing compound exercises. The isolation is needed for maximum muscle growth and is considered good practice. It is also important to understand that a muscle does not work in isolation. The muscles work
Drills and skills appear to be closely related in the training of most athletes. Often overlooked however, is that drills don’t teach an athlete new skills. They can only reinforce what the athlete is already capable of doing. So why do we continue to use drills as the number one training and teaching method? How
In most sports the general trend is to increase the training intensity of the already high-intensity workouts. It appears that each year coaches strive to increase the intensity of the workouts. In addition, many of these high-intensity workouts are accompanied by a large volume of work. This type of training is done in the belief,
Use less training intensity Read More »
All throwing and many hitting and catching skills require some rotation of the arms. The rotation usually takes place in the shoulder, elbow and wrist joints although it can be isolated to one or two joints depending upon the type of throw or hit. For example, in baseball fielding when reaching out to the side
Specificity of rotator cuff exercises Read More »