Weekly Sports Performance tip - Anti rotational core training

As promised here is our continuation of core training...

When it comes to rotational training and improving sports performance and rotation core training we have had some really great break throughs.

As an industry we have realized it is important to train in the diagonal pattern as just about any sport deals with some kind of throwing, swinging, shooting pattern. Even running deals with rotating the body.

Running? Running doesn't involve rotation does it?

No, not really. It actually demands your body to prevent rotation and the athletes out there that run incredibly fast, are really good at not rotating their body!

That tells us that preventing rotation in running is part of the speed training puzzle right?

But what about increasing the ability to throw, shoot, and swing harder. what we have done in the past was simply grab a heavy object (medicine ball) and mimic our sporting motion.

Very good strategy. However, we are finding out now that just like our super fast sprinters, if we create the ability to prevent our trunks from rotating, will result in a better transfer of generating power through achieving better stability through the trunk.

So what we now do in the gym to increase throwing power, shooting & swing velocity, and even speed and agility is what I call anti-rotation training...

take a look at how we are achieving more powerful athletes through anti-rotation training at Optimal Performance;







JZ