Great Sports Performance Training does NOT include...(Part 2)

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Hello Everyone!

A great sports performance program should include exercises that are similar to the movements performed in a game. Therefore, great sports performance training does NOT include...machines. 

Machine Exercises:
• Restrict your range of motion into a set pattern
• Often have you sitting
• Do not teach you how to move better
• Do not require coordination
• Train muscles separately which never happens in sport
• Do not make you faster
• Do not teach you how to generate more power

The above list is not athletic. Machines are not athletic.

Machines are not athletic. Machines can't teach you to be athletic.

When searching for a great sports performance program, the program should have little to no machines. Machine exercises are best for rehabilitation and bodybuilding.

Great Sports Performance Exercises:
• Train you through unrestricted, natural sport movements
• Often have you on your feet
• Teach you how to move better
• Require coordination
• Train the body as a whole
• Make you faster
• Teach you how to generate more power

The above list is athletic. This list includes characteristics of great athletes.

When performing exercises for sports performance think of incorporating: Olympic Lifts, Calisthenics, Barbells, Dumbbells, Medicine Balls, Kettlebells, and Suspension exercises. Think of the movements you do, or want to do, in your sport and try to replicate/compliment them in your training like we do at Akron General Sports Performance.

Keep Training!
Coach Amanda Kephart and Akron General Sports Performance