The winter Olympic Games brought out many different articles related to how you can train like an Olympian. Many of the articles quoted former Olympic athletes to tell the average person how they can use the training exercises and methods of Olympians. Aside from some of the usual recommendations on how to train, as for […]
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I am always interested in finding out how professional teams train, analyze and develop their players. When injured and rehabilitating, I always check to see what kind of progress the athletes are making and what the teams are doing to speed up or enhance the rehabilitation to get them back to playing as soon as
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HIT or high-intensity training means that you use heavy resistance in your exercises with short rest periods in between. An example of high-intensity of training is seen in Crossfit and other similar programs. According to the American College of Sports Medicine, HIT training is now the trend and will be the most popular form of
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The trend in most sports today is to develop greater levels of strength. This is probably due to the presence of strength and conditioning coaches on most athletic teams who believe that greater strength is the key to greater success on the field, court or ring. Can this however, be substantiated? To gain more strength,
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In the aim of preventing injuries many teams are now giving serious attention to the ability to predict injuries. They consider this to be the last frontier in terms of what can be done to analyze player performance. However, is this ability to predict injuries really the last frontier? I believe the ability to predict
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