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We recently discussed various types of resistance to be used in training for the development of athletic success. Tomorrow, we will go over exercises with one other novel form of resistance - partner training. Since teamwork is imperative to training utilization upon athletic platforms, partner training is a practical addition to one’s program. Partner training uses the partner’s strength and bodyweight as a counteraction form of resistance, allowing the trainee to build a better form of strength. The exercises done here will increase the trainees ability to produce strength against another athlete, a useful asset which conducts on-field strength for use on the athletic platform.

In many situations, athletic trainees do not wish to utilize standard weight training resistance, as those used in weight rooms. Often times, weight training facilities may not be available, or users do not have availability to the necessary safety measures including spotters and training fixations. Weight plates and dumbbells are a good form of resistance, but at times they can be inpreferable and even inappropriate. Because of this, we will today overview some of the non-standard forms of training utilities, frequently more convenient than the more popularly used forms. Though these utilities are used less often, they enormously concentrate an athletic training program. In many circumstances, the body becomes accustomed to standard training utilities, refusing to advance in its strength development.

Coordination Drills

Most trainers put most bearing on strength, agility, power, and quickness. While all of these athletic qualities are imperative to superior athletic development, there are many athletic personas which many athletes display deficiency in, due to lack of related training.

Another one of these often forgotten traits of athleticism is coordination, which is especially important to young athletes. The development of coordination without your body must be strongly concentrated while you are younger. Being able to control parts of your body relatively to each other allows swift, athletic movements. Many athletes, especially those who are heavier or taller, fail to develop these traits, due to the difficult of controlling their movements with a larger body. The exercises we learn today will expand your coordination abilities, especially if done often and correctly.

Agility Ladder

The agility ladder, which we will discuss further later in the week, teaches you to coordinate your feet to process properly developed foot movement. The exercises teach your feet to follow your commands, building coordinated movements in a controlled manner.

Cup Drills

Cup Drills work on an athletes hand eye coordination. Two athletes should begin standing facing one another, with large cups or cones in hand. One athlete should toss a tennis ball to the other, not necessarily in an orderly fashion. The other athlete should catch the ball in his cup, as the first athlete throws another.

SPARQ REACT BALL

In accordance with yesterday’s discussion, I decided to introduce a training tool which will help develop reaction skills. This fun utility will allow you to build quick reactions, while maintaining athletic movements in a pleasurable environment. The SPARQ ball is created by SPARQ and supported by Nike, a largely used resource of training programs and accessories. Its primary utilization is based on its unexpected movements, forcing you to react quickly. If done at high velocity, this ball can work wonders for your reaction and also your hand-eye coordination.  A SPARQ Ball can be purchased at almost any athletic or bodybuilding store, largely endorsed by Dicks Sporting Goods. The SPARQ BALL drills build great athletic reaction for you.

What is SPARQ?
SPARQ, a Nike endorsed training organization, aims to enforce the best programs and activities for proper athletic development. SPARQ aims to improve every aspect of athleticism, buts its main focus is displayed in its acronym. SPARQ represents five athletic qualities - speed, power, agility, reaction, quickness. The training organization has helped many athletes to reach success, training players for sport specific superiority.

SPARQ also offers consumers with many fulfilling training accessories and workout programs. They have helped athletes and novice trainees around the world, allowing anyone the ability to train appropriately. SPARQ offers one of the nations most prestigious training programs, one which can be utilized by practically any committed athlete. For more information, go to sparqtraining.com, or check back for more daily SPARQ training activities.

Most trainers place most bearing on strength, agility, power, and quickness. While all of these athletic qualities are imperative to superior athletic development, there are many athletic persona which many athletes display deficiency in, due to lack of related training.One of these important athletic qualities is reaction. Many people don’t realize its significance, but it is utilized heavily in every sport. In football, an athlete must blast out of his stance at the motion of his opponent. A basketball player must react quickly to the movements of his opponent’s feet, while in complete control of the ball. Baseball players must react to a base runner’s sudden movements, able to control his running about the bases. Basically, every sport requires a strong sense of reaction skills. Today, we will learn some reaction drills which will help strengthen this sense via http://www.brianmac.co.uk/reaction.htm

These drills help you to learn to respond to both sound and movements. In different sports, athletes are required to move on a sound, such as a pistol for a sprinter. Others are required to move off of movement, such as a nose tackle awaiting the snap. These simple drills can aid you in developing your reaction muscles.

Another exercise I used to do back in football days involved using a tennis ball. I would get down in my stance as a partner holds a tennis ball. He could make sounds or movements randomly, as long as he did not move the ball. It helped me to develop focus onto a movement, which helped me greatly as a blitzing linebacker

I am very happy that this blog is beginning to advance, and even more ecstatic about the reader participation. I recently received a message from a reader, asking me if he could use his home dumbbell set to add difficulty to his plyometric training setup. I had not planned to touch on this till later in the month, but refuse to leave a readers question unanswered.

Weighted plyometrics are definitely a great addition to any athletic or strength training program, though they themselves should no be conducted using heavy weights. They give your body an added challenge of resistance, training your body to work harder, building up even more strength to use on the playing field. Training your body with weights trains your body to work harder even when the resistance is not present. Weighted plyometrics can be performed using dumbbells, weight plates, resistance bands, and many other types of collateral. Though some trainers require trainees to choose between weighted or unweighted, I strongly support incorporating both into your workout program. Varying between the two will train your body to incorporate the workout you have done more properly, especially when in an athletic environment.

Pushup Circuit

Many readers are in search of a method to train their arms, especially in the comfort of their personal abode. Most of those who seek such as workout lack the equipment necessary to massly train their upper body. Those athletes who are constricted to performing under such limitations normally rep out pushups, hoping that their effort in the exercise will overwhelmingly achieve their sought after success. While this is possible, most amateurs lack the experience or knowledge to se up a workout that will accomplish their strength goals. Here is good example of a pushup circuit, brought to you by Baseball Tips.com. This is great for those limited to working out in a home environment.

http://www.baseballtips.com/pushups.html

Stretching your muscles prior to lifting is quite important to successfully working out, while also ensuring your safe athletic development So far in the workout discussions, we have merely incorporated this imperative stage of proper workout technique. I decided that today I would list some stretches. I will further explain them later in the month. Do the ones, which you know how to do. Stay flexible so you are properly prepared for athletic training. Train hard and you will develop faster.

 Neck Stretch, Groin Stretch, Hamstring Stretch, Quadriceps Stretch, Calf Muscle Stretch, Shoulder Stretch, Triceps Stretch, Wrist Stretch, Jogging, Arm Circles, In place pull-ups, Touch your toes     

Today we will learn a valuable training activity, which will allow us to incorporate both upper and lower body strength, using a plyometric exercise variation. It is often useful to develop the ability to train both sets of body muscles during the same workout set. This exercise has developed into a plethora of variations, training activities that involve the similar utilized movements. Some people even assume that this exercise was the basis for the widely known football training up-downs. 

The exercise we will discuss is called a burpee. It will be very useful in your workout, especially if you are a football player. I am under belief that this exercise aided me in using my upper and lower body simultaneously, hitting while in a lineman stance.

1. Begin in a regular pushup-position.
2. Do one explosive pushup, using proper form and necessary skills.
3. Jump out of the pushup stance onto your feet, assuming the position of a parallel squat.
4. Explode out of your squat stance, performing a movement similar to the squat jump.
5. Lower yourself back into a squat, and move into a pushup position.
6. Repeat for highest reps possible.