Much attention is being given to key movements in specific sports. Key movements typically refer to those moments that are responsible for making the movement successful. Most often the key movements are related to some aspect of skill execution. To fully understand the significance and importance of key movements it is necessary to look at […]
The rotator cuff muscles of the shoulder play a very important role in the prevention of shoulder injury and in the execution of overhead throwing and hitting actions. The four muscles of the rotator cuff are strategically placed so that they are very effective in holding the shoulder joint together. For example, the supraspinatus on
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The most common injury or problem experienced by many athletes as well as most sedentary people, pertains to the lower back. Every year studies show that over 85% of the population suffers or has suffered from back problems at least once during the year. When a low back problem happens to competing athletes it could
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Strength You get much greater strength development in the 1 x 20 RM strength training program than in any of the common high intensity strength training programs presently used by athletes. The reason for this lies in intensity and adaptation. The 1 x 20 strength training program has less intensity which is better suited for
For too many years strength training and skill learning have been considered as separate qualities that had to be performed apart from one another. In other words, you had to learn game skills (skill technique) by itself and gain strength in separate sessions. However, in a new program that I developed, it is now possible
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