David Crawford on Sport-Specific Training: How Effective Is It?
What is sport-specific training and how has it evolved throughout the years? Keep reading as David Crawford provides a more detailed and in-depth explanation. The Traditional Way of Sport-Specific Training David Crawford shares that sport-specific training has been around for decades now. The only difference is that people back then didn’t have as much knowledge as athletes and coaches do now. After all, major breakthroughs in sports therapy didn’t happen until the end of the 20th century. The idea of sport-specific training back then was to strengthen the body through basic compound exercises. For example, your old basketball coach back in the 70s might have forced you to do hundreds of squats every day, right? Or maybe you wore a weighted vest all the time. Those were all done in an attempt to make your muscles stronger and become better at movements such as jumping and running. The Modern Way of Sport-Specific Training The idea of sport-specific training has completely evolv...