Ankle injuries continue to occur on all levels of sport, including the professional level. You can easily find players on the disabled list in many sports including major league baseball, football and basketball. Even superficial analysis of how the injury occurred will tell you that most of these injuries can be prevented. For example, a […]
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In the aim of improving athletic performance or to prevent injury or to enhance an athlete’s abilities, it is common to read that the muscles should be balanced. What this means is never fully explained but is taken for granted that somehow the muscles on both sides of a joint should be equal in strength.
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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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The relationships between strength, technique and game performance are somewhat complex. As a result there is often confusion as to the effects of strength training not only in relation to the athlete’s technique and level of performance, but also to his or her age and maturation level. Because of the many variables, the effects of
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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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