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Improve Your Cuts With the Pyramid Technique
Before a cutting movement, you must first train your body and mind to execute an explosive stop. Yes, it seems strange, but faster deceleration means a faster athlete. That stopping [...]
Exercise of the Week: Conditioning Gauntlet
The Conditioning Gauntlet is an end-of-practice conditioning drill that's appropriate for almost every sport. The goal is to completely tax your energy systems to condition your body. That way you'll [...]
Warm Up Your Shot Like Young Kobe
Before Kobe Bryant was drafted by the Lakers in 1996—the first guard to go straight to the pros out of high school—he met Dave Hopla, who would become his shooting [...]
Three Ways to Increase Reaction Time
Keep your cuts above the rest by performing these advanced reaction time exercises, which use cues to optimize your ability to change direction efficiently. Cognitive Reaction Time Exercises Four-Cone Color [...]
Fight Counter-Rotation With Rodney Martin
Did you know that when you run, the surface of the track releases energy that can affect your performance? It’s called counter-rotation, and it happens in the drive phase, when [...]
Kevin Durant's Balance Training
Despite being selected second overall in the 2007 NBA Draft, Kevin Durant knew he had plenty of room to improve. Early into his professional career, Kevin committed himself to adding [...]
Getting Game-Time Quick With Maryland Lacrosse
“There is a direct correlation between a lacrosse player’s ability to perform athletic movements in rapid succession and his on-field performance,” says Maryland lax S+C coach Michael Szemborski. The Terrapin [...]
Pro-Approved Tennis Drills
Regardless of surface, tennis agility means being able to accelerate, decelerate and change direction while maintaining proper balance and posture [all while trying to hit a fuzzy ball traveling at [...]
UNC’s Advice for Balancing Club Ball and Training Time
Multi-sport athletes are a vanishing breed, and soccer is one of the sports that is most responsible. For top tier players hoping to earn spots on college rosters, there is [...]
DB-Specific Quickness With Nnamdi Asomugha
Three years ago, even football fanatics knew Nnamdi Asomugha only as “the guy with the unpronounceable name.” But since his 2006 breakout campaign, which earned the Oakland Raiders CB a [...]