Many athletes who excel in basketball also excel in volleyball. One reason for this is that the training for basketball or volleyball has many similar features. Because of this, you can use some of the same exercises and training routines that are specific to volleyball for basketball, and vice versa. For example, both basketball and
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A tidbit in the sports news today caught my attention. It brought out how the NFL’s new highest paid punter is already getting requests from parents to instruct their young (teenage) aspiring punters. Their requests are based on the belief that if you are a high-level athlete you automatically know everything about the sport and
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In my work with bodybuilders and athletes I am finding that all too often the workouts are finite and not transitional. In others words, the workouts that are used are the workouts that will continue to be used until there is an injury or some other problem. Usually there is a set number of exercises
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It is not uncommon to hear coaches say that they work with players on their mechanics. But they rarely if ever, spell out what they mean by mechanics or what the mechanics are. Sometimes the definitions that they do give for mechanics appear to be counter to the generally accepted understandings. For example, some coaches
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Salaries of professional athletes keep increasing on a yearly basis. But yet, performances on the field by athletes have not been increasing at a proportionate rate – unless you believe that mediocrity equals high-level performance. Rather than looking at how well the athlete performs on the field, owners appear to be looking more at competing
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