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Myth or Fact: Speed Training Is Sport-Specific
There is often confusion about whether speed training is sport-specific. It’s a natural question: does speed training need to be sport specific? After all, as a parent or coach, the goal is to help your athletes be faster come game
Essential Guide to Sport-Specific Training
Sport-specific training is a constant topic of discussion among athletes, parents, and coaches. For our team at Velocity, it comes up daily in settings from local performance centers to our coaches at Olympic training facilities. While some performance coaches scoff
3 Go To Exercises For Improving Lacrosse Speed
Every player and coach knows that speed kills. It’s an advantage that every player wants. Unfortunately, there is a lot of confusion when it comes to improving lacrosse speed. The first thing required to improve lacrosse speed is to understand
Curved Running In Sports
If you aren’t training curvilinear sprinting, you’re missing an important part of game speed. When you look around, you’ll start to notice there is a lot of curved running in sports. Most of us think of speed as straight-ahead running.
Load To Explode
It’s a common cue you might hear from a coach. “Load to explode!” That’s because it is fundamental to many sports movements and involves two of the six types of athletic strength. LOADING YOUR MUSCLES Loading is what you see
Warning: Hockey Players Need These 3 Types of Strength
The strength hockey players need to succeed is not always obvious to the casual observer. While lifting big weights like a heavy squat or bench press is impressive, strength is a lot more than just the matter on a barbell
7 Strength Training Movement Patterns Athletes Need To Master
There are seven strength training movement patterns all athletes need to master. To understand why you have to understand why athletes strength train in the first place.
Building a base of general strength is useful for almost every athlete. It’s even more helpful if all 7 of the fundamental movement patterns are being strengthened. These movement patterns reflect the big categories of athletic movement.
Improve Functional Strength To Prepare For The Return of Sports
Sports are returning after COVID-19 shutdowns, and athletes need to be preparing now, so they can get back and play at their best. While at home or waiting for sports return, you can improve some basics that can help prevent
Injury Risk From Returning To Sports Too Fast
Detraining during lockdowns and a quick reopening will increase injury risk The injury risk returning to sports after COVID-19 shutdowns is greater than most coaches realize. Preventing injuries has to be one of the highest priorities for coaches, teams, and
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