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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
What Is the Best Fighting Art?
Do you do martial arts or combat sports? Do you have an answer to the eternal question: What is the best fighting art? If you do, read my new self-defense tip and post your answer as a comment to it at real-self-defense.com/self-defense-tip-124-what-is-the-best-fighting-art/
Filed under: Sports Performance, Sports Psychology/Mental Toughness, Teaching Movement Skills for Sports and Martial Arts | Leave a Comment
Someone brought to my attention The Epic Split featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme (see below). I viewed it and was duly impressed. Then I read comments on YouTube and on other sites, such as huffingtonpost.com and mashable.com. Most comments on this video are Ok, but inevitably there are some from nobodies looking for faults in the […]
Filed under: Flexibility and Stretching, Sports Performance | 4 Comments
Tags: hanging side split., Jean-Claude Van Damme, stretching and flexibility, Volvo Trucks
Here is info I forgot to post two weeks ago: Two “I told you so….” in recent articles from The Journal of Strength and Conditioning: 1. Effects of Static Stretching on Energy Cost and Running Endurance Performance Static stretching before an endurance event may lower endurance performance and increase the energy cost of running. Abstract […]
Filed under: Flexibility and Stretching, Sports Performance | 3 Comments
Tags: dynamic warm-up, endurance performance, sprinting, static stretching
“You can observe a lot by watching”—Yogi Berra Here are my thoughts on the dispute between proponents of separation of strength training from skill training vs proponents of integration of strength and skill training (i.e., progression of strength exercises from general to increasingly sport-specific with parallel technical training). Let’s begin with easily observable facts: At […]
Filed under: Sports Performance, Sports Technique, Strength Training for Sports and Martial Arts | 3 Comments
Tags: skill training, sport-specific strength exercises, strength training, super slow
