 Why do athletes need to focus on strengthening their core?
A strong core is essential to every athlete because it allows your body to function properly. Your core stabilizes your body, allowing you to move in any direction as well as maintaining proper balance. It helps prevent falls and supports your body.
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Building lower body strength is important when it comes to building speed, but the most effective way to achieve maximum speed and velocity is to increase single leg strength. Single leg strength is required for explosive speed and acceleration. Sprinting is a single leg movement where each leg works individually to explode forward. Single leg strength also increases agility movements, strengthens the glutes and stabilizes hip abductors that are needed for deceleration. Single leg movements are crucial in becoming faster and more agile athletes. When training athletes, we use single leg exercises that imitate game situations. In games, athletes need to push off of one foot to move and change direction.  Training is both mentally and physically exhausting for all athletes. As athletes it is very important to come mentally prepared even when you are physically tired. Being mentally prepared for every training session will allow you to take advantage of every single session in the gym or on the field! When it’s time to train, consider these five tips to help you mentally prepare for performance training:
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