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Muscle Memory Is Real And Can Help Your Game 19 Aug 2013 | 11:12 pm
You’ll hear the same thing over and over on high school and college football fields this month. “We just have to get our reps in.” “Time to knock the rust off and find our rhythm.” “Its all about timi...
Go With The Flow - Part 2 9 Aug 2013 | 11:36 pm
Number-loving sports like baseball and basketball have plenty of individual statistics to measure a team and a player’s performance over time. Not so for the “beautiful game.” "In soccer there are r...
The Secret Ingredient to Sports Success: An Interview With David Epstein On The Sports Gene 3 Aug 2013 | 09:03 pm
Maybe its not all about practice. Since the youth sports world fell in love with the romantic notion that 10,000 hours of structured practice is the magic ingredient to world-class mastery in just ab...
Go With The Flow - Part 1 1 Aug 2013 | 01:45 am
Back in the mid-90s, Sun Microsystems, the creator of the Java programming language, coined the marketing slogan “The Network Is The Computer.” They were describing the Internet of twenty years ago, ...
Better Late Than Never For Young Athletes 19 Jul 2013 | 12:43 am
We’ve all seen the “early bloomers” in youth sports. Those kids who just seem more physically gifted at an young age allowing them to dominate their leagues. They fill up the rosters of the best tea...
Remind Your Brain That You Can Hit This Pitch 5 Jul 2013 | 09:35 pm
Baseball hitting strategy is usually taught as a logical, almost statistical thought process. Depending on the score of the game, runners on base, the number of outs and the current count, the batter ...
Medical Moneyball - The Rise Of Injury Analytics 26 Jun 2013 | 05:27 pm
What if? It’s a question that many of the world’s top teams asked in the last year when faced with ill-timed injuries to key players. What if Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls, Robert Griffin III of...
Preventing Burnout In Young Athletes 21 Jun 2013 | 05:42 pm
For many elite team coaches, the greater challenge in developing top young athletes is not improving the ones on your team, but rather finding the talented kids that got away from the sport. Keeping ...
Using Rate Of Perceived Exertion As A Training Metric 15 Jun 2013 | 01:16 am
Coaches invest hours devising training plans that will push their athletes just to the edge, but not over. Overtraining leads to burnout and injuries but going easy won’t get the right results. The ...
How To Train The Batter's Brain To Reduce Strikeouts 12 Jun 2013 | 01:19 am
It’s not getting any easier being a big league hitter. Consider that in 2003, only three pitchers lit up the radar gun at 95 mph or more on at least 700 of their pitches, according to the Wall Street...
