It appears that the bridge exercise has been gaining in popularity in the last five to 10 years. This is both good and bad to see especially when it is recommended for all level athletes. The bridge is a good exercise many for beginners for strengthening of the lower back (erector spinae) muscles as […]
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According to many pros, tennis is an endurance sport and you should train for endurance to be at your best. Understand that many tennis matches go well over three hours and require a great number of repetitions, not only in hitting groundstrokes and serves but also in movement on the court. Thus, there’s no questioning
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According to many sources you get an imbalance between the gluteals and hamstring muscles (hip joint extensors) and the hip flexor muscles (iliopsoas, pectineus and rectus femoris of the quadriceps group) from running. According to these running specialists, weak gluteals do not allow you to “swing through” your stride. The hip flexors are then recruited
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It is not uncommon to find articles dealing with strength training for runners. What is surprising, is that many of them advocate strengthening only the upper body since, in the authors opinions, the lower body is already sufficiently strong from the running. This, however, is a fallacy. In the early stages of running, there
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Many recommendations for improving your run relate to improving your posture. In this regard we hear coaches tell a runner to be more upright. But how does one get more upright? You are often told to straighten up and to maintain your head and shoulders in alignment. This typically means that the head should
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