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Shoulder Stability Exercises
Perform one of the following exercises during each workout to strengthen the crucial stabilizing muscles in your shoulders. Physioball Walkout With Push-Up Assume push-up position with hips centered on physioball [...]
Los Angeles Angels Coach on Losing the False Step
False steps waste time. “Many athletes waste time by taking a small step back with their right foot, pivoting and then stepping with their left foot,” says Los Angeles Angels [...]
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 [...]
Increasing Your Range with Rice Baseball
The Rice University baseball squad has a second home field in Omaha, Neb., where the College World Series crowns a National Champion every year. Thanks in part to their stingy [...]
Quick Feet Series
Not all agility drills require cones, hurdles or speed ladders. For Christopher Noss, PGA Tour conditioning coach and trainer for Stewart Cink, an effective workout program starts “from the ground [...]
BC Hockey’s Pro Agility On Ice
Performing the Pro Agility On Ice helped improve the 2010 National Champion Boston College hockey team’s agility. According to BC’s strength and conditioning coach, Russ DeRosa, the drill works the [...]
Defending the Net
It’s no secret that goalkeepers need to move laterally as quickly as possible. If opponents fired shots directly into your lap, any Average Joe could man the net. Since that’s [...]
Dribbling Skills with the Creighton Bluejays
Imagine this: you’re on a fast break downfield when an onrushing opponent strips the ball from you. What just happened? Could it be that you were looking down while dribbling—instead [...]
Lateral Speed Exercise with Wake Forest Soccer
Running a 40 in less than 4.5 seconds is sick, but it doesn’t relate to how you move on the pitch. You need to change direction in the blink of [...]
Dribbling Drill for Basketball
By Scott Mackar Getting up and down the court with ease, like Mike Bibby does, is something every baller should work on. Al Biancani, owner of Biancani Fitness and Physical [...]