Medicine Ball Training

Many sports require activities that could arguably be described as explosive; a pitcher throwing a pitch in baseball, a player taking a slap shot in hockey and many other ones as well. While weight training is a good way to develop the muscles required for these types...

Kickboxing

Fans of kickboxing already know this is an exciting form of sports fighting. Combatants use kicks, punches, tosses and martial arts strikes against each other in this high energy, intense form of fighting. While watching kickboxers in action it becomes very clear that...

Circuit Training

Circuit training is an excellent way to improve one’s strength, mobility, and stamina. For those who do not know what circuit training is, it is a training format that consists of 6-10 exercises, strength exercises to be precise, in which the participant...

Video Games as Physical Activity

In 2006 video game sales were an estimated $7.4 billion, so it is safe to say that almost every home in the United States has at least a computer and/or some other video gaming unit. With this many gaming consoles children are spending more time indoors playing video...

Endurance Training

Endurance training is an effective training program to make athletes tougher than the toughest in terms of quality of output in the face of complete fatigue. The body should be able to force that extra mile out, even when it is at the very end of its capacity. This is...