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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When a player makes a leaping catch, hit or shot in various sports it is usually considered a unique skill, often acquired when playing some other sport in the early years. In other words, the ability to leap high is a talent that was learned or developed in another sport, not the sport in which
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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
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The number and severity of running injuries appears to be constant from year to year. Approximately 80% of all runners receive an injury during the year! In reality, the number may be increasing because of a greater number of runners. Most running experts attribute the increase in rrunninginjuries to lack of attention to the basic