POSTSEASON RECORDS REVIEW OPPONENTS MEAC PIRATES COACHES PREVIEW HAMPTON strength and conditioning principals of athletic development 1. Ground Based Movements: Sports skills such as running, jumping or throwing are initiated by applying force against the ground. You need to select lifting exercises and conditioning drills that apply force with feet against the ground such as squat and hang clean, hang snatch or push jerk. The more forces your athletes can apply against the ground, then the faster they will run and more effective they will be in sports skills. Other exercises will do little to improve performance. 2. Train Movements, Not Individual Muscles: Our strength and conditioning program is based on exercises and drills involving multiple joint actions to improve athletic performance. Athletic skills such as running, jumping and throwing require multiple joint action times in the proper neuromuscular recruitment patterns. Otherwise, an individual has no coordination and lacks the ability to generate explosive force. Also, sport skills involve movements in the three planes of space simultaneously: saggital, frontal and transverse. Our strength program improves functional strength with exercises approximating these skills. Free weights allow movement in three dimensions simultaneously. This makes the transfer of strength and power easier to merge with the development of sport skills. Free weights require the assistance of stabilizing and fixating muscles. Machines have a path that is dictated where an individual does not have to stabilize the load over the duration of the lift, thus not allowing sufficient work to the stabilizer and fixator muscles. 28 2013 Hampton Football hamptonpirates.com
Hampton Football Media Guide 2013
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