When you exercise or play a sport, your breathing adjusts automatically to the effort that you are expending. This is generally taken for granted by most individuals since this occurs naturally. Because of this most people including athletes, do not feel the need for any supplementary training to improve their breathing. Fortunately, this kind of […]
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Most athletes do strength training to “get in shape” and to get stronger. This is especially evident on the collegiate and professional levels. However, it is also happening with increasing frequency on the high school level with both boys and girls. This is great to see as strength training and general conditioning create the foundation
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The squat is considered a key exercise for athletes as well as fitness buffs. There is no questioning the fact that the squat is a great exercise and it is considered to be the king of all exercises. However, in most gyms the primary goal when doing a squat is to see how much weight
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It is not uncommon to see the word square used in many different ways. You may read or hear that the ball should be square to your stance, that ball contact should be square, that the club should be square to the ball pathway, that your stance should be square to the line of flight
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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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