Everyone wants to be bigger, faster, and stronger. Sports performance rehab can help you achieve your performance goals. Whether you are a competitive or recreational athlete, the performance exercises can help improve your game.
Any type of sports performance rehab program should be based on improving
overall neuromuscular control, and focus on improving agility, core stability
and balance/coordination. In the prevention and recovery sections, I focus
on these areas as well, but this section covers more advanced movements,
adding in total body activities to improve quickness, reaction time, and
cardiovascular endurance.
Sport specific exercises and drills can also be beneficial to improving
performance. But without a good foundation of mobility and neuromuscular
control, performance based programs cannot be as effective. Be sure that if
you are recovering from an injury that you progress through your rehab before you
worry about improving your performance.
Agility exercises in focus on quickness of movements, neuromuscular control, and integration of the core with the extremity. Plyometric exercises utilize the stretch reflex to incorporate neuromuscular control, and to integrate all of the muscles and joints together.
Core stability is vital to good athletic performance. Without it, you are more likely to suffer injury, and you cannot produce as much power, cannot move as quickly, and your balance and coordination will suffer. These core stability exercises incorporate total body movements to improve integration of the core muscles.
Building on the prevention and recovery balance activities, these exercises are more advanced, using total body motions to improve balance and functional performance.
With any type of rehabilitation or performance program, you need to be able
to tell if it is working. So, before you start, set some goals that you want
to achieve. Decide on two or three specific and measurable things that you
want to improve upon, and then work through the program, evaluating your
progress as you go. Setting specific, measurable goals will not only provide
motivation to continue with the program, but will also give you the satisfaction
of knowing that you are making a difference in your overall fitness.
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