According to various sources, you get an imbalance between the hip extensor muscles (gluteals and hamstrings) and the hip flexor muscles (iliopsoas, pectineus and rectus femoris of the quadriceps group) from running. According to these running specialists, weak gluteals and hamstrings do not allow you to “swing through” your stride. The hip flexors are then […]
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You can find many articles dealing with core training that are supposedly designed to improve athletic performance. However, I have not seen any follow-up studies indicating whether performance has indeed been improved. There are probably many reasons for this lack of information. Foremost is that checking to see if performance has indeed been improved may
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How do you know when you have a workout that produces changes that allow you to do more the next time you workout, i.e., run farther or run faster? Understand that when you workout and get a positive training effect, you create changes in the body that allow you to perform even more or better
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Strength, the ability to create and/or maintain force, is perhaps the most important physical quality for success in sports. The main reason for this is that strength is related to many other physical and mental qualities. For example: 1) Strength is needed to assume and maintain static and dynamic posture. In execution of sports skills,
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If you are like most runners you probably get confused after reading about the many shoes that are available and their purported benefits. Because of this many runners simply take the advice of fellow runners who have experienced wearing some of the different shoes. But if you listen to the hype put out by the
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