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Share Every week, ithlete will cover general questions on training and recovery, as well as specific best practices with Heart Rate Variability (HRV). If you have a general question or a specific question on how to use ithlete you can email ithlete.support@myithlete.com. Question 1: I seem to struggle in the trials and practice, even during [...]
Share Sten and I would like to thank all the beta testers who took the time to evaluate the latest fitness tester for iOS devices. You may recall we had a call-out for the iPhone, iPad and iPod FitnessMeter: Beta Testers Wanted. The company, Appmaker, also makes the iPhone sprintTimer – Photo Finish & Race [...]
Share This is Part 5 in the series called Plyometrics, Ground Contact Time, and Sprinting. Part 1 Plyometrics, Ground Contact Time, and Sprinting was simply to demonstrate the faster the movement, the shorter the ground contact time. Part 2 of this series covered How to Weight Train without Weights and it focused on speed strength. [...]
Share This article is guest blogged by Jacob Hiller of www.jumpmanual.com Do you need to be strong or are plyometrics enough? How strong is strong enough? But… – How strong is strong enough? – Can you be buff and jump higher? Getting strong is not only a pre requisite to patting your ego, it’s also [...]
Share This article is guest blogged by Joel Jamieson from www.improve-vertical.org Power is very commonly mistaken as strength, the ability to output force, or the ability to lift heavy weights. In reality, power is dependent on both velocity and force, and is usually referred to as explosive strength, an important aspect of athleticism and especially [...]
Share Next to the Olympics and the IAAF World Championships, the NCAA “March Madness” Basketball Tournament is my favorite event. It’s simple… all you have to do is go 6-0 (or 7-0 if you live in fantasy land) on 3 consecutive weekends to win the National Championships. So Go Hard or Go Home. It doesn’t [...]
Share Nike and Kobe Bryant today premiered an all-new trailer previewing the upcoming Black Mamba film and confirmed the films launch during the 2011 All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles. The Black Mamba, staring Kobe, Kanye West, Bruce Willis, Danny Trejo, is a Nike Basketball production, directed by Robert Rodriguez. The film brings Kobe’s alter ego, [...]
Share With all the talk about Football’s 40 yard dash, Basketball’s 75 feet 3/4 court sprint, and Baseball’s 60 yard dash, let’s take a look at some obscure world record or world best SHORT racing distances. Swimming has their version of the 50 meter “splash and dash”. Here are the world records or world best [...]
Share 50,000 athletes in Torino for the 2013 World Masters Games… just 3 YEARS away! TORINO-TURIN — Torino will be hosting the eighth edition of the World Masters Games, the summer games for sportspeople aged from 35 to 100+ years in August 2013. The event – called by Regione Piemonte, Provincia di Torino and Comune [...]
Share Anyone who watches Usain Bolt before any race will notice he is loose and confident before every race. In a big pressure race of the Olympics or World Championships, he’s playing and smiling to the crowd, while others are focused, staring at the finish line or staring at their belly buttons. Asafa Powell, who [...]
Share Next to the Olympics and World Championships, the NCAA “March Madness” Basketball Tournament is my favorite event. It’s simple… all you have to do is go 6-0 on 3 consecutive weekends to win the National Championships. So Go Hard or Go Home. It doesn’t matter if you are 27-0 or 18-12, just throw out [...]
Share One of the biggest fallacies in sprinting fast is the muscular legs and thighs in sprinters. I recall watching a meet and someone said “look at the size of Dwain Chambers’ quads!” I simply remind them to look Blanka Vlasic legs with her tiny calves… thus the power is in the hips. Even the [...]
Share Nike and Kobe Bryant today announced the debut of the Nike Zoom Kobe V, the brand’s lowest-profile and lightest basketball shoe to date. Bryant challenged Nike to make his signature shoe even lighter and lower than the Nike Zoom Kobe IV he debuted during his 2008-2009 championship season. Nike responded with the Nike Zoom [...]
Share After eight books, A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring is the one closest to John Wooden’s heart: a moving and inspirational guide to the power of mentorship. On October 14, 2009, John Wooden turns 99 years old. As active and vocal as ever, Wooden heads into his tenth decade eager to [...]
Share NIKE, Inc. today introduced the Nike Air Max LeBron VII, the latest and most innovative shoe in LeBron James’ signature line, at a global media summit in Akron, Ohio featuring James and performance footwear designer Jason Petrie. The Nike Air Max LeBron VII is designed to deliver maximum comfort and stability. It features an [...]
Share Low Level Laser Therapy is also known as Cold Laser Light Therapy, or Low Intensity Laser Therapy. This is not to be confused with the Far Infrared Radiation “heating healing” pads which treats another set of ailments. I’ll cover that in another article. Last year, I was fortunate and unfortunate to experience this alternative [...]
Share BEAVERTON, Ore. – LeBron James will debut the Nike Zoom Soldier III on the court tomorrow when Cleveland takes on Detroit. Designed with James’ playoffs needs in mind, the Nike Zoom Soldier III is the lightest shoe designed for James, to date, with this Nike Zoom Soldier series becoming LeBron’s perennial playoff footwear. “A [...]
Share BEAVERTON, Ore. — The new Nike Zoom MVP Trash Talk combines Nike’s commitment to Considered Design, marrying performance product and sustainability, with Phoenix Sun’s Steve Nash’s passion for the environment. The Nike Zoom MVP Trash Talk, which launches at retail on April 22, 2009, Earth Day, is a classic hoop shoe designed for athletic [...]
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