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The number of baseball injuries, especially early in the season, has increased greatly in the last few years. Every week you can read articles about how many team players are injured and fans complaining that if only the athletes weren’t injured, the team would be having a much better season. All baseball injuries are not […]

Books written on plyometrics and coaches who use plyometrics in the training of athletes do many different kinds of jumps under the umbrella name of plyometrics. Plyometrics involves jumping, but not all jumps are plyometric. For example, skipping rope, easy jumping and skipping, in which you get off the ground only a few inches, should

Agility, the ability to change direction while in motion, is a very important quality for many athletes, especially those in team and dual sports. To make such changes, you must have the ability to stop movement in one direction and initiate movement in another direction as quickly as possible. Such changes are known as cutting

Of the various forms of aerobic exercise, running is probably most popular. However, today walking, use of the stair climbers, rowers, stationary bikes, eliptical machines and other types of exercise equipment are giving running a serious challenge. One of the reasons for this is that running often leads to injuries of the support structures, especially

In spite of all of the evidence showing that static stretching is of little value, most people, including athletes, continue to participate in this activity. In static stretching, because you hold an end position of a particular range of motion for extended periods of time, it does little to enhance the viability of a joint