Dealing with sports injuries is becoming a major concern for most teams. Injuries seem to be occurring with increasing frequency especially in certain sports as for example, baseball, basketball and football. To illustrate, at the conclusion of the past football season there were over 1,500 injuries sustained in the last week of play. Injuries to […]
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If you have an interest in how to throw overhead, or how you can improve your overhead throwing, you have probably seen articles or been told that overhead throwing is not a natural motion. To substantiate this claim you see some opinions expressed but no substantial factual information because overhead throwing is a natural movement.
When someone thinks of speed they think of how fast the athlete can run. However, a very important part of speed is acceleration which is related to increasing speed from a standstill. It is sometimes more important than the actual speed at the athlete attains. For example, in running 100 m it takes approximately 1/3
If you’re a serious endurance athlete (long-distance runner, cyclist, rower, skier, ice skater, etc.) you have come across information related to aerobic base training. In most of these sports the coaches want you to develop the aerobic base at the beginning of the off-season before starting on more intense training before and during the competitive
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It is important to develop greater strength in specific muscles for improved performance in your sport. However, by targeting specific muscles you often ignore other muscles that seem to be less important or that are not directly involved in execution of a particular skill. We oftenlimit ourselves to compound or multi-joint exercises. Such exercises are
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