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Recovery runs – Slow down to speed up

Occasionally slowing down your pace can actually make you run faster in the long-term. That means running at a pace that doesn’t tax your body. The most [...]

Indoor/Winter Track & Field

Competing this winter may be the ticket to fast times during the spring! The winter indoor season serves as a dress rehearsal for what’s to come outdoors. [...]

Plyometrics

Speed and strength are integral components of fitness found in varying degrees in virtually all athletic movements. Simply put the combination of speed and [...]

Training

Sports performance training is the physical and mental process of working toward specific athletic, performance or fitness goals through a regimented program. [...]

Conditioning

One of the misconceptions in the sports world is that a sports person gets in shape by just playing or taking part in his/her chosen sport. If a stationary [...]

Coordination

Coordination is the topic in this installment of the 5 Key Areas of Athletic Performance. Coordination is the ability to repeatedly execute a sequence of [...]

Flexibility – Mobility

What is flexibility? Flexibility, mobility and suppleness all mean the range of limb movement around joints. In any movement there are two groups of muscles [...]

What is Speed?

Speed, one of the 5 Key Areas of Athletic Performance, is the quickness of movement of a limb, whether this is the legs of a runner or the arm of the shot [...]