4fitbodies.com » Off Season Training http://4fitbodies.com/fitnessgab Personal Training, Fitness Tips, Sports, Sports Fitness Mon, 14 May 2012 21:23:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Football – Training Tips http://4fitbodies.com/fitnessgab/football-%e2%80%93-training-tips/2007/06/24/ http://4fitbodies.com/fitnessgab/football-%e2%80%93-training-tips/2007/06/24/#comments Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:30:30 +0000 wendy http://4fitbodies.com/fitnessgab/football-%e2%80%93-training-tips/2007/06/24/ Football can be a grueling sport. It requires a serious training regimen in the off-season so that you are not injured when game-time comes.
It is critical for anyone considering playing football (or anyone who is struggling to avoid injury or improve their performance) to review their training.
All football positions require great stopping and starting skills. This means that your training regimen must consist of three things to help with this:
- Reactive Training to help you have more power and speed on your start.
- Stabilization Training to ensure stability so you are not injured.
- SAQ – Speed, Agility and Quickness. You should ensure that you work on sports-specific drills to improve.
Certain positions also have additional risks and training requirements that are specific to the position that you play. Are you a quarterback? You need to review stabilization training on elbow and shoulder joints. Are you a running back? You need to review strength and power training as well as stabilization training to support your explosive movements. These are only some examples, but most positions have their own demands in addition to the general demands of playing football.
Football players, especially children, need to review their hydration requirements as well. Due to the physical demands of training, as well as the season, many football players are taken to the hospital with severe dehydration. You should never feel dizzy or vomit from training. These are serious symptoms that require medical attention.
And while we are on the topic, anyone considering playing football should consult their doctor on their goals. Your doctor can give you a physical and determine any extra tests you may require to play safely. He can also point out critical physical issues that are unique to you that should be addressed in your training. An example of this would be if you are overweight, underweight, diabetic, etc. Good luck with your game!

]]> http://4fitbodies.com/fitnessgab/football-%e2%80%93-training-tips/2007/06/24/feed/ 0 Off Season training – Chapel Hill News Article Feb 2007 http://4fitbodies.com/fitnessgab/off-season-training/2007/02/25/ http://4fitbodies.com/fitnessgab/off-season-training/2007/02/25/#comments Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:31:54 +0000 wendy http://4fitbodies.com/fitnessgab/?p=55 Off Season Training – February 2007

David Hansey

NASM Certified Performance Enhancement Specialist

NASM Certified Sports Fitness Specialist

NASM Certified Personal Trainer

Most sports have an off-season. Even if you do not play an “organized” sport such as football, baseball or soccer, you can usually determine when your off-season is. For Golfers and Tennis Players, along with football, baseball and soccer players, it is RIGHT NOW. The off-season is not your time to kick back and put your feet up on the coffee table. In fact, cycling activity and inactivity can increase imbalances in your body as well as set you up for injury. Off season is the time to work on correcting your body’s imbalances as well as to work on strength and power. Is your golf swing still becoming a slice by the time you get to the back 9? Well, perhaps it is because you are not using your body correctly and compensating with your arms, which become tired and fail you later in the game.

If you have never followed a “workout plan”, now might be a perfect time to seek professional help to determine what you need to be working on. A movement assessment is a perfect way to determine your strengths and weaknesses. You may not realize that you are making compensations for weak or tight muscles. For example, you may bow your knees out when you bend them because certain muscles are too tight or you may roll your feet outward.

I can see some people saying that these limitations are not really that big of a deal. Well, consider this. That slice that we mentioned before in your golf swing is usually caused by weak muscles in the back and tight hamstrings. Both of these are EASY TO FIX. Most weak and tight muscles are easy to fix. But, until you identify them, your workout will probably not do anything to correct them. In fact, working out blind without knowing your unique strengths and weaknesses can cause injury (tennis elbow, golf elbow, back problems, knee pain or injury, etc).

Now that you have identified your unique strengths and weaknesses, you can work out an off-season training program. This program should consider correcting any weaknesses as well as take any goals you have into account. For example, are you tired and making mistakes in your game due to poor cardiovascular conditioning? Or do you need to change how you train. Are you missing shots in your tennis game? Then maybe some interval training or lateral training (both of which emulate the moves in tennis) would make more sense than steady training on a treadmill.

Regardless of your sport, the off-season is the time to make these assessments and train for improvement so when the time comes to play; you are stronger, faster, more accurate and less prone to injury. For more information on Sports Specific Training, call me at 404-514-1896 or visit my website at www.4fitbodies.com.

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