Sports Conditioning: Schedule Your Testing

I have completed my tests so what is next?

Talk with a expert to translate the results

Having completed your assessment, the most vital thing is to now integrate all this information and this is where a sports scientist or sports conditioning performance director comes into action. It is cool to have all the testing done and now the genuine value comes in interpretation of the results and what it means to you, and most significantly the execution of the results into your daily training program.

I have so many parents and coaches show me reports from testing they have finished and it all sounds great and the reports looks particularly inspiring with coloured graphs, bar charts etc but they do not have a clue what it implies, much less what to do about it or the right way to make the required enhancements to fix any areas of weakness. Also, it must be integrated and compliment their fitness and training programmes. It's also important the coach, the coach and all troubled really understand it in order to be well placed to apply the corrections needed.

If you don't have accessibility to someone that understands all of the results, be positively sure you understand all of your results and also what to do. Knowledge grants power. Raise questions of the person that did the testing on you and make sure you fully understand the results and what that implies and most critically what to do to boost that result. For instance, if you have poor shoulder stability, then you'd need to know what targeted exercises you can do to improve it.

Also you'll need some guidance on the best way to do it properly, how many repetitions and sets to do at what weights, for example. Knowing an exercise is simply a part of it. It is how many you do and how you do them that is also vital. I've seen lots of athletes so eager to enhance quickly and then finish up with an overuse injury! Don't let be you. Simply ask for direction.

Prevention is far better than cure

Some people feel it is no use correcting what's not a problem. That should have been the case 20 years ago but then we didn't have the knowledge, experience and knowledge we have today. Now, it is all about prevention and prevention is better than spending weeks and months on the sidelines, and rehabilitating from wounds that would have been stopped.

Pro athletes repeat the same movements millions of times over and over and over. Think about the swimmer, or the rower, or the long distance runner always repeating the same movement patterns with their each move. In time, the encircling muscles, joints, tendons and tissues may break down if there are any weaknesses or imbalances. More and more before, athletes demand more from their bodies.

Many sports are played at a quicker pace, and with the improvement in technology and gear, the strength, the power, speed and the endurance needed by athletes is now even larger than their fellow rivals in years gone by. Added to that, the increased harms, the pressures of the media, sponsors, coaches and other demands a sporting hero faces suggests that no stone can get left unturned.

Prevention is most definitely better than the cure! I cannot stress this point enough to coaches and players as I have seen too many sportsmen over time not putting in the tiny extra work needed to prevent injuries. It may only be 1 or 2 exercises but those little exercises are worth their weight in gold.

Having gathered all of the necessary info in detail, you may realize you have heaps of things to work on. And that is the truly exciting part.

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by: Ann Quinn
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