Power4sports

Train at the speed of your sport

I cannot tell you the number of athletes I have worked with who train incorrectly for the sport they have chosen to play. 

With the advances in strength and conditioning over the past 10 years any athlete must create a scientifically designed workout routine is put together to address the sport they play. 

That means if you are playing tennis basketball or football you do not have and a running routine that has you running in a straight line or distances of a half mile or mile,

You are not going to run in a straight line using a long flowing stride when you play these sports. Instead you are going to be making quick steps, costly changing direction, and pushing off your outside leg to go the other direction as quick as you can. In other words you'll be shuffling moving parallel to your opponent and the quicker you can then change directions and maintain your balance the more effective you will be. 

You are not just born with this movement you need. You must develop it in your workouts. Therefore your workouts must include agility drills where you are constantly changing directions over a short period of space. That means you may run 10 to 20 yards change directions, run another 20 yards, change directions again and run another 20 yards. Whatever the movement that your sport will require is how you should be running when you were practicing.

The three sports I mentioned require fast twitch muscles and explosive movement. Yes you still must have endurance but it be far better development running a series of sprints or you are starting and stopping just like you will be in your sport. 

I like to use cones and my training where we are running forwards sideways backwards and diagonally in between and around those cones. We strive each week to move faster and to have better balance as we do these agility drills. Let me assure you any professional athlete you admire has ran through these cones over 1 million times. 

So if you want to perform at your optimal level I suggest you do to.