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It seems for the past few years a “new” approach is being used by S&C coaches in that they claim the feet on the athletes body is the ALPHA & OMEGA. For the one reason being that it is the only point of contact the athlete has with the ground or athletic surface. I have decided to call these guys “The Foot clan” the original definition or origin of the foot clan is below:

“The Foot Clan is a fictional ninjutsu clan in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and all related medi...

In the world of strength & conditioning a lot of the S&C coaches out there uses the phrase "rate of force development" or for this text "RFD", because this is allegedly most important component that has to be improved in sport performance. Firstly let’s start with what is RFD?

It has been defined as the rate of rise of contractile force at the beginning of a muscle action (Aagaard et al., 2002). It has also been said that RFD is shown in the short and long components of the stretch shor...

Basically when it comes to problems with hamstring injuries pre-hab is better that re-hab. So if you are already sitting with a hamstring injury you need to see a physiotherapist as soon as possible after you have iced it as soon as possible after the injury.

Seeing as the rehabilitation process is not part of my discussion here i am not going into much detail of that. But a good physio will be able to help with that with various therapies including but not limited to dry needling, deep ti...

By Ignatius (Naat) Loubser

In the movie enter the dragon Bruce Lee is teaching a student and explains to him he needs to have “emotional content” in his kick, to which the student kicks with more aggressive anger... Very sternly he gets reprimanded by Bruce as he clearly said emotional content NOT anger. What I believe “emotional content” means is that you need to be able to move by being in the correct emotional state of mind and not a burst of uncontrolled emotion. Also to collec...

Ignatius Loubser BA(HMS), ETA-PT,NSCA-CSCS, NS-NLP, ACMC 

The one thing that always puzzled me is that a lot of people that I worked with knew exactly what they shouldn’t do and kept on doing exactly what they shouldn’t. Even when it came to my own training and eating habits and I am the “EXPERT”  and I couldn�...

Why do the same exercise routines cause greater or smaller effects in different athletes? Why is it that if an athlete were to copy a training routine of a famous athlete it will not create the same result for him/her as what it did for that famous athlete?

The secret is that one should only use the general underlying ideas of these programs and employ it in the correct manner for a specific athlete because not all athletes have the same physical development of the components below and this ...

The latest craze has swept the sport world and it promises more balance, energy, strength, speed, power and flexibility. And the best thing of all it is easy to use and non invasive!

Top professional sport people and celebrities are using it like Shaquille O’Neale, Robert Di Nero, David Beckham and Rubens Barrichello.

And just looking at tlibre of persons using this “technology” it has to work!

Upon looking at the supposed technology in the bands I discovered that each manufactur...