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Home Magazine Issues March 2005 Postion-Specific Training

Postion-Specific Training

When you lose your keys, you’ve often left them in the last place you’d think to look. Coaches and trainers, in search for a competitive edge, do the same thing. Typically, they look outside for answers when the secret ingredients for a successful training program might already be right under their noses. In all my previous articles I mention the importance of making all your speed, agility and quickness drills to be sport-specific. In fact, I’ve even mentioned the importance of going as far as making your drills position-specific. In this article, I will again illustrate the importance in sport-specific and position-specific training; however, rather than concentrating on speed, agility and quickness, I will concentrate on weight training. Muscle development is obviously a vital part of any training program for any athlete of any sport. But which type of muscle, which type of

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