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Filed under: Endurance Training for Sports and Martial Arts, Exercises and Workouts, Flexibility and Stretching, Periodization, Principles of Sports Training, Sports Performance, Sports Psychology/Mental Toughness, Sports Technique, Strength Training for Sports and Martial Arts, Teaching Movement Skills for Sports and Martial Arts | Leave a Comment
Tags: Children and Sports Training, explosive power, maximal strength, mental toughness, sports psychology, sports techniques, stretching and flexibility
Weekly Schedule of Workouts
Workouts cause fatigue. Fatigue is necessary for making progress, but if a workout schedule is bad, the accumulating fatigue will stop an athlete’s progress. The whole article on optimizing the weekly schedule of workouts is at http://www.stadion.com/weekly-schedule-of-workouts/
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Tags: fatigue, sports training, Thomas Kurz, workout schedule
One reader wrote me an e-mail with questions: > I have owned your books Science of Sports Training and Stretching > Scientifically for many years as well as your DVD’s Secrets of > Stretching and Clinic on Stretching. Due to my own misunderstanding and > bad practices at martial arts schools I have attended I […]
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Tags: BJJ, conditioning program, endurance training, explosive strength, Flexibility, martial arts school, maximal strength, mma, periodization, power training, Science of Sports Training, strength, strength training, Thomas Kurz, workout
On Elegance and Single Workout
Elegance is [achieved by] selectiveness or restraint in the use of means—a good selection gets to the point with just the right means. In my opinion, the crucial element of a training program is a workout. Not an exercise and not a microcycle but a single workout. Why not an exercise—the basic building block of […]
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