A recent article in Sports Illustrated featured three colleges as being state of the art in football. One of the schools had an extremely large weight room and the most impressive features (according to the article) was the wide array of exercise machines that they used and the $650,000 worth of weights. Another college was […]
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I am sure that all of you have heard about the kiss principle; keep it simple stupid. This should be a fundamental law when it comes to the training of athletes. But yet, not only is this principle ignored, but it appears that training programs and exercises are being made more complex. Why this is
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The most prevalent form of conditioning and learning the skills and strategy involved in a game is performing drills. As a result, many practices consist of doing drills. Further evidence of the popularity and use of drills is the sales of sports books dealing with sports drills. These books commonly far out-sell books dealing with skill
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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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Plyometrics is now one of the most popular modalities used in sports and to a great extent in rehabilitation. It is used in the name of developing greater strength, speed, quickness, agility and treatment of injuries to name just a few. It has gotten to the point where you rarely hear about jump exercises. It seems
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