Physical preparation
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Just as there is Maslow’s pyramid and the food pyramid, coach Tony Holler has developed his own pyramid aimed at performance in situational sports. Tony Holler is a track and field coach and a football and basketball physical trainer. He works at Plainfield North High School. He is also a member of the Illinois Track…
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Strength training consists of following a program that increases an individual’s ability to produce muscular effort against resistance for the purpose of displacing it. This resistance is almost always external, like when we lift an Olympic bar, but it can also be internal resistance, like when we lift our body when performing a pull-up.
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Surely you have heard phrases like this from the mouths of many sports coaches: “If you start lifting weights you will get stronger, but you will sacrifice your flexibility and joint mobility.” And vice versa: “If your goal is to gain a lot of flexibility you have to avoid lifting weights so that it doesn’t…
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One way we can classify strengthening exercises is into multi-joint and single-joint. An exercise is considered multi-joint when several joints move during its execution, so that all muscle groups belonging to a kinetic chain are strengthened. In this way we can say that the entire body is strengthening at the same time since it intervenes…
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According to Kelly Baggett in his book “No-Bull Speed Development Manual”, if we look at the way athletes sprint, especially at the amateur level, we can broadly differentiate two types of sprinters: athletes who are faster than strong and athletes who are stronger than fast. Below we are going to explain the differences of this…
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Anyone who practices any sporting activity (track and field, artistic gymnastics, martial arts, tennis, team sports…), whether at a professional level or as an amateur, should include strength sessions in their planning for multiple reasons, including mainly all of these:
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