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Are We Injuring Our Athletes

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Our athletes have entrusted their careers and love of sport in the hands of the performance/strength coach that manages their training program.  My question is, are we doing more long term damage to our athletes bodies by training under heavy loads and maximum velocity all the time. OVERREACHING:
o·ver·reach (vr-rch)

1. To reach or extend over or beyond.
2. To miss by reaching too far or attempting too much: overreach a goal
3. To defeat (oneself) by going too far or by doing or trying to gain too much.
4. To get the better of, especially by deceitful cleverness; outwit. 
 
I fear we have trained our athletes and casued repetitive microstrain by constant heavy loads with out proper alignment or control.  Over my 10 year career I have seen a shift to add more physical therapy to the training program and I beleive the shift is well deserved.  Performance Therapy maybe the future of this profession and training may involved a higher percentage of low intensity exercise with a low percentage of high intensity exercise.  According to the NSCA report this would be the opposite of the current training trends.



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