Sports Performance Rehab

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.

Sports Performance Exercises

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

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 Exercises

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.

Balance / Coordination Exercises

Building on the prevention and recovery balance activities, these exercises are more advanced, using total body motions to improve balance and functional performance.

Goal Setting

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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