Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Baseball Showcases: A Great Way to Waste Money and Get Injured | Eric Cressey | High Performance Training, Personal Training
Baseball Showcases: A Great Way to Waste Money and Get Injured | Eric Cressey | High Performance Training, Personal Training A good time of the year to re-post this article. Must read for all baseball parents.
Monday, February 3, 2014
Movement Proficiency: A Reserve of Movement Competency
It is important to build your training around a foundation of movement competency. This then serves as a reserve or cushion upon which your sport movements can operate.
In other words, if your reservoir of movement is vast then the movements within your particular sport can be done well and safely.
If, on the other hand, you have very limited movement proficiency then it is highly likely that at some point your sport will put a demand on you that your movement competency simply can't handle which will lead to injury.
This injury event can be due to long term repetitive trauma (overuse injury like shin splints for a runner or shoulder "soreness" for a throwing athlete) or it could be due to a traumatic, one time event (ACL injury).
The point of training is to make you more resilient from such insults. There is no training program that can absolutely guarantee that you won't get hurt. On the other hand, if your training program injures you that is an absolute, inexcusable mistake. If you do it to yourself, shame on you and use some common sense. If you are training with a coach and they do it to you, fire them.
So bottom line is your training should enable you to move through a variety of movements through full ranges of motion with no pain. If it doesn't then it should at least be heading you in that direction.
If it isn't doing that then time to re-evaluate and choose a different path.
Train hard and train smart!
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In other words, if your reservoir of movement is vast then the movements within your particular sport can be done well and safely.
If, on the other hand, you have very limited movement proficiency then it is highly likely that at some point your sport will put a demand on you that your movement competency simply can't handle which will lead to injury.
This injury event can be due to long term repetitive trauma (overuse injury like shin splints for a runner or shoulder "soreness" for a throwing athlete) or it could be due to a traumatic, one time event (ACL injury).
The point of training is to make you more resilient from such insults. There is no training program that can absolutely guarantee that you won't get hurt. On the other hand, if your training program injures you that is an absolute, inexcusable mistake. If you do it to yourself, shame on you and use some common sense. If you are training with a coach and they do it to you, fire them.
So bottom line is your training should enable you to move through a variety of movements through full ranges of motion with no pain. If it doesn't then it should at least be heading you in that direction.
If it isn't doing that then time to re-evaluate and choose a different path.
Train hard and train smart!
http://fitnesstogether.com/media for our website and all of our links.
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