This is a continuation of my week of excellence devoted to Tiger. Enjoy!
This week’s edition of www.jeffcubos.com will be devoted to the Pursuit of Excellence. The first few posts will be dedicated to Tiger Woods, the epitome of sports performance. Here is an article from theage.com.au summarizing what makes Tiger Tiger. (click on the image) Enjoy!
*Going back into the archives for an oldie but a (relatively) goodie* High-Performance Sports Conditioning Bill Foran (editor) Champaign, IL Human Kinetics, 2001 367 pages High-Performance Sports Conditioning by Bill Foran (editor) was on of the first books aimed at providing a comprehensive insight into functional training. Recognizing that traditional sports conditioning provided limited contributions [...]
Here is a follow up to yesterday’s post. Two different “athletic” scenarios. How should their warm up routines differ? Should there be a difference in what each should do before training and before performance?
This is quite a touchy subject and while you may THINK you have a good idea on whether to stretch or not, guess again! By now (2009), most of you think stretching is bad. Some on the other hand, still use “stretching” and “warming up” synonymously (these people probably tug really hard on a slab [...]
The use of compression garments have increased in popularity in recent years thanks in part to Allen Iverson of the NBA, hockey players suffering from adduction-related groin pain, and speedo-clad, energy bar eating, multisport athletes called triathletes. Along with this increase in compression wear have been the recent emergence of what the urban dictionary would [...]
