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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After watching the remaining games of the World Cup after the US lost, I kept thinking that things might have been different if the team’s pre-World Cup training regime was different. Understand that there were four-a-day workouts during a grueling training camp at Stanford. At the World Cup where you can see elite soccer at
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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As a rule, athletes and bodybuilders do exercises in a way that creates isolation of the muscle or involves several muscles when doing compound exercises. The isolation is needed for maximum muscle growth and is considered good practice. It is also important to understand that a muscle does not work in isolation. The muscles work
Drills and skills appear to be closely related in the training of most athletes. Often overlooked however, is that drills don’t teach an athlete new skills. They can only reinforce what the athlete is already capable of doing. So why do we continue to use drills as the number one training and teaching method? How