Most players and coaches agree that you should use your hips when hitting and throwing in sports that require force and power. This includes executing the groundstrokes in tennis, baseball batting, pitching, throwing a football, throwing from the outfield etc.. But how many players do this? In analyzing hundreds of players in a multitude 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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There are several major categories of research that apply to the sports world. Fairly common is the biomechanics of skills or movement patterns such as running and throwing. One type of research that is relatively new and practical is the biomechanics of sports technique. This type of the research differs from the biomechanics of a
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A trend that doesn’t appear to be abating in the fitness and athletic worlds, is core stability training. The core and stability training has taken many different forms. Most popular however, is to do a strength exercise on an unstable surface so that you must not only overcome the resistance, but balance yourself at the
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Always using the same grip in a strength exercise will not allow you to fully develop the target muscle. Best is to use a variety of grips to produce fuller and more varied development. For example, a pronated grip press-down targets mainly the medial head of the triceps. A supinated grip targets mainly the lateral
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