DECELERATION
TRAINING AND INJURY PREVENTION
Despite greater
emphasis on weight training programs to
prepare athletes for sports activity, the
injury incidence rate remains unchanged
in most sports and is rising in others. Golf, women’s basketball and soccer, as well as men’s
soccer, have demonstrated increased
incidence of serious injury over the
last five years.
This progressive rise in sports
related injuries has led many experts to
reevaluate the methods used to prepare
athletes for competition.
HOW
INJURIES HAPPEN
Videotaped
analysis of how injuries occur has
revealed common “injury attributes”
across all sports. Injury events
generally involves the athlete
attempting to quickly decelerate force,
in more than one plane of movement,
using multiple joints, and using only
one limb.
Traditional weight training
regimens do not match these
requirements.
Traditional weight training is
dominated by slow movements, performed
on two legs, in on plane of motion and
often isolated to a single joint.
TRAINING
FOR INJURY PREVENTION
Based
on our understanding of how injuries
occur a shift toward a training system
that more accurately reflects the
athletes needs has begun.
This new approach emphasizes
training the ability to decelerate
forces in all planes of motion while
maintaining control on one limb.
The athlete trains at sports
specific speeds and under resistance
loads applicable to their sport.
This environment more closely
matches the athletic activity and will
result in fewer injuries and better
performance.
This “deceleration training”
is not meant to replace traditional
strength training but rather compliment
existing programs.
Traditional weight training
methods have produced bigger, stronger
and better performing athletes and its
place is assured.
We must now address the problems
of escalating injury rates with a new
approach to training.
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