Athletic Movement Skills – Balance Your Strength Training
Athletic Movement Skills
Balance Your Strength Training
This video shows Martin Rooney discussing the need for athletic movements in your program. It is not enough to just perform strength training movements. You have to be able to express strength, power, agility, balance, coordination and optimal movement as well.
Sometimes your strength programs works against this goal because a lifter doesn’t perform mobility movements, a good warm-up, static stretching and they lose the ability to move freely.
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July 2nd, 2010 at 8:47 am
These are great points that Mr Rooney talks about. As a strength coach you can sometimes get caught focusing more on the lifts than actual athletic movements. We always want to build a well rounded athlete.
July 2nd, 2010 at 1:40 pm
This is one of the primary reasons why I don’t call myself a “strengh coach” anymore. I use athletic performance coach because of all the “skills” the must be developed within an athlete for optimal performance. Great stuff as always Smitty!
July 9th, 2010 at 10:52 am
I always tell the kids I train and their parents that I am trying to make their children better athletes, instead of a better football or soccer or baseball player. I find that the field work/outside work that my kids do really helps them in the gym. They are always motivated to work out on the field, no matter the weather. As always, thanks for all of the help Smitty!!
September 30th, 2010 at 11:11 am
These factors are the most important ones that most coaches are not aware of. I’m glad somebody had point it out here.
September 2nd, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Muscle Imbalances Revealed Review – Upper Body Program
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