Many golfers, baseball players, tennis players, and other athletes who must swing and hit an implement or throw a ball or implement for distance or force believe that rotation of the hips shifts weight onto the forward leg. As a result, they concentrate on body rotation to produce most of the power in the throw. […]
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When you have a weakness in your performance regardless of whether it is in relation to skill execution or some physical ability, think first about a technique to improve your abilities. The same holds true when coming off an injury. Determine if your technique was the main culprit in causing the injury and how you
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There is a great deal of information on strength weight training programs for beginners, made up mostly of high school athletes. Strongly recommended is that they start off slowly and gradually increase the intensity of their training programs. However, rather than adhering to this advice most programs have evolved into high-intensity strength training routines. Such
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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
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The ability to jump high is necessary not only in sports such as basketball and volleyball, but in almost all sports. For example,, this ability is needed by football receivers, tennis players for reaching and sometimes hitting an overhead, baseball and lacrosse players to catch a ball,, figure skaters in executing different stunts, and others.
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