Major league teams continually go to other countries looking for the best players. For example, some baseball teams are setting up centers in China, Ghana, Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica. If Ghana surprises you, it is because some of the MLB team’s representatives were impressed with their soccer team players. They believe that if they […]
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The lunge and side lunge are very important exercises in many sports, especially when these exercises are executed with Active Cords. The reason for this is that the Active Cords allow you to do the exercises in exactly the same manner as the joint actions occur in many skills. The lunge is a terrific exercise
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If you were allowed only one strength exercise to improve your running speed, which exercise would you use? This may be a tough question to answer but I believe if you compare or evaluate all the different exercises that are used, the knee drive will be your answer. If you evaluate the strength exercises that
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Someone asked me what I’d do if I won the lottery and got to equip a gym with everything I needed to make a world-record breaking athlete, what kind of gear would I get? Well, here you go: 1. Standing Calf (Heel) Raise Machine: This machine is important for all track and field athletes. The heel raise
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According to some of the top coaches you should have a stride rate of about 180 steps per minute. This recommendation is based on a study of long distance runners at the ’84 Olympics which showed that 95% of the Olympians running distances of 800 meters and up had a stride rate of 180 steps
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