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Agility Training Drills
The following types of drills should be included in an agility training program: Line drills: Drills conducted in a linear fashion that incorporate change of direction, footwork, reaction time, acceleration, deceleration, stopping ability, conditioning, transitions between skills, and cutting ability.
Assessing Your Athlete
One problem that many trainers and coaches confront is how to effectively and efficiently evaluate human movement. To authentically evaluate movement, we must understand one main principle of training: The "test is the exercise and the exercise is the test" (Gray 2004).
Benefits of Training With Dumbbells
Training with dumbbells provides a variety of advantages. Some of the advantages are practical and some are physiological, but without a doubt, dumbbells will be a good addition to your training program.
How Can Tapering Improve Performance?
In high-level sport, small elevations in performance can have a significant impact on performance outcomes and can differentiate between winning and losing.
How to throw successful jabs
This section outlines the punches used in this programme. You will learn how to throw the jab, cross, hook and uppercut and some great exercises to make them the calorie-burning tools you want them to be. Let’s get started!
Integrating footwork skills into your stance and guard
Now that you have the tools and know-how to maintain a good guard and stance, we turn to the skill that the world-famous boxer, Muhammad Ali, was known for: footwork!
Moving from Simple to Complex Core Exercises
Start by training the four basic trunk movement patterns with dynamic or static exercises. Beginners would do well to include exercises that train single-plane basic movement patterns.
Plyometric Drills
Stability Ball Impact Lockouts | Purpose: To strengthen the core and improve the body’s ability to absorb impact. Procedure: Assume a hand-on-ball push-up position, keeping the core (abdominal muscles, lower back, and hips) tight (see figure a).
Sample Core Exercises
Lie faceup on the floor with your legs bent. Place the arms and hands across the chest. Your upper back should be slightly off the ground to maintain constant tension on the target muscles.
Sample Dumbbell Exercises: Lower Body
People sometimes have a tendency to emphasize the upper body in strength training programs because they often equate being strong and powerful with having big arms or a big chest. In reality, however, most sports are lower-body dominant.
Sample Dumbbell Exercises: Split Alternating-Feet One-Arm Jerk
Instructions 1. Stand with the feet about shoulder-width apart and rest a dumbbell on the right shoulder. 2. Sit back until you are at the depth of a vertical-jump attempt. Keep the heels on the floor.
Sample Dumbbell Exercises: Total Body
Total-body exercises, those using the major muscles groups in both the lower and upper body, are the weightlifting movements, better known as Olympic lifts.
Should Young Athletes Specialise Early?
Designing training programmes for single-sport athletes would require a phase of physical preparation prior to the onset of the competitive phase.
The Benefits of Core Exercise on Swimming
Fast swimming relies on an athlete’s ability to simultaneously generate propulsive force with the arms and legs while attempting to minimize the drag resistance experienced as she knifes through the water.
Three ultimate cardio booster workouts
The Total Knockout Fitness ultimate cardio booster workouts provide fun, simple ways of warming up, followed by intense, sweat-breaking main sessions and finishing off on a high with some stretching techniques to help you recover from your exercise session.
When is an Athlete Ready to Return to Action After an Injury?
One of the more difficult problems that the performance team faces is determining when an athlete is ready to return to action after injury. The athlete can be placed under enormous pressure from the owner, coach, fans and media to get out on the track, field or floor in record time.

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