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The 6 Worst Mistakes Football Players Make in the Off-Season
Size, strength, speed and power are absolutely essential for the game of football. So, football players need to focus their off-season training on improving these athletic attributes. Most football players have good intentions going into their summer off-season training, but sometimes they fail to achieve their goals. One poor decision or training mistake can completely derail your program and undermine all your hard work in the weight room.
How to Train as a Multi-Sport Athlete
Multi-sport athletes are on the go year round, making it difficult to specialize their training for each sport. If you play football, basketball and baseball (or any other three sports), you won’t have time to get into a sport-specific program. However, this doesn’t have to be a problem. The foundations of athleticism—strength, speed, power, stability and flexibility—cross over to nearly all sports.
Firm Footing: How Footwear Impacts Athletic Performance
Read More >> At some point or another within their careers, athletes fall prey to "paralysis by analysis." They become entangled within a nebula of minutia, scrupulously calculating each calorie or each second spent beyond a target heart range. And when you hear a guy like me talking about how important footwear is for athletes, you might write it off as something superfluous that doesn't demand your attention.
How to Build a New-School Basketball Warm-Up
Read More >> Like an insatiable forest fire, the metaphorical inferno of debate over dynamic and static stretching has raged on in coaching circles for far too long. Old-school coaches have long preached static stretching and a generic battery of calisthenics for their athletes prior to practice or competition.
What Is 'Load Management' and Why Does it Matter for Athletes?
Read More >> Fans, coaches and developing athletes throughout the world now have yet another term to tackle and decipher: load management. Throughout this NBA season, we have witnessed the deliberate shelving of some of the game's biggest superstars, including LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard, Anthony Davis and Joel Embiid. The reason? Load management. Recommending what appears to be some old-fashioned "rest and relaxation" is purported to improve athlete health and performance and prolong careers.
How to Increase Bench Press Weight: A 5-Step Guide and Training Program
If this has happened to you, you're not alone: After piling on an additional 5 to 10 pounds per week on your Bench Press, you suddenly find yourself stuck. The tips below will help you blast through this intermediate stage plateau and help you continue to increase your Bench Press.
5 Sports Health Tips to Extend Your Athletic Career
When Kobe Bryant announced that he was hanging up his sneakers for good, it got me thinking. His incomparable combination of athleticism, skill and sheer determination fueled his ascendancy to become one of the greatest ever to play the game of basketball. Although the new breed of basketball pundits—you know, those analytics guys with their PER metrics—are eager to point out Bryant's declining abilities, they ignore the fact that he's playing in his 20th season.
How to Bounce Back From a Bad Day at the Gym
Read More >> Journeys marked with PRs that give rise to the achievement of fitness goals are inevitably interspersed with pedestrian and, at times, disappointing workouts. Learn from MJ Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons Michael Jordan, arguably the greatest basketball players ever, boasted a 30.1 points-per-game scoring average, but he fell short of double-digits a few times during his career.
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