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Vert Shock Vertical Jump Training Program Review Introduction to Vert Shock? Vert Shock is a vertical jump training system created by Adam Folker and Justin ‘Jus Fly’ Darlington. It is specifically designed to help athletes to enhance their vertical jump. The program assures to extend the vertical jump by 9 to 15 inches in the time frame of 8 weeks and then it is easy to dunk. It’s not just a magic solution or a fairy tale but a pretty bold statement, because the guys who created it, Adam…

Basketball is a high intensity sport that involves a player to have the speed and agility to get up and down the court as fast and as agile as possible. Strength and conditioning is a major key in the game of basketball. Strength and conditioning is the physical and physiological development of athletes for elite sport performance. Strength and conditioning also help athletes with injury prevention and proper mechanics within their sports performances. The two components that Donte is focusing…

you ask people their opinion on what the best rep range is for gaining muscle mass and what is the best for leaning out, I would be willing to bet that over 90 percent of the answers you receive would be: low reps for mass and high reps for cutting. If you've been in the gym mix for any length of time, you've probably heard the same. The problem is that this philosophy isn't necessarily accurate. Let's first tackle gaining muscle mass. If you were to lift heavy weights and perform low reps, you…

Why Athletes Take Steroids There are many reasons why people take steroids. Professionals, athletes, even students take steroids because they want to improve their health and develop their bodies. On the other hand, some people take steroids for their health or medical reasons. What are Steroids? Steroids have many uses. It is made by different manufacturers using different brand names. Steroids can treat and reduced inflammation because of systemic vasculitis (blood vessels are inflamed) and…

Is it important to understand the structure of our muscles? And if so how could this improve the results of our muscle exercise routine? One wise thing to do when deciding the muscles exercise technique we are going to adopt is to find out the type of structure a muscle is made of, muscles as we know are formed by either a slow-contract structure or a fast-contract structure, for example a muscle made of high level of slow-contracts structure reacts more favorably to high repetitions, so high…

Research Are sports performance enhancements worth doing for a better performance? My opinion would be no because they mess with your health and give you heart problems, it’s just better not to do it at all. Some people take the risk but like I said before it’s better not to do it. Not only does it damage your health it but it can also ruin your life and get you kicked out of the things you love them most. Sports performance enhancements can also bring the person’s and the people around them…

Ari Garcia /EID: ajg2762 May 04, 2017 Weight Training Risks and Benefits Involved During Weight Lifting Weight lifting is an exercise that is practiced all over the world today.. It is used by athletes, professional bodybuilders, and even the average person. The art of weightlifting has been used for as “long as humans have existed”[1] in one way or another, because it builds great strength and power in one’s body. Although the art of weightlifting might have been different in the past,…

Testosterone prescriptions are most commonly written by doctors for men with testosterone deficiencies caused by andropause or other conditions. Testosterone is a hormone produced by the body and deficiencies cause symptoms such as decreased sex drive, fatigue and moodiness. These symptoms can be caused by other conditions and even when testing shows that testosterone levels are lower than normal, testosterone supplementation does not always alleviate the symptoms and may inhibit the body's…

Last summer, I have taken the boxing training classes with a great coach Lee. At the first class, he told me about many basic knowledge and information about the boxing. We started with the most basic action: straight punch. We spent much time in the straight punch.He would set a challenging goal for me, for example, make 10 standard straight punch. It is a little harder for me because this task asked for both strength and speed. However, I did it with great effort. At the same time, he would…

During the civil war period and the First World War (WWI), physical education was expanded across the United States impacting fitness and being able to improve the structure and function for anything a man may be called upon to do (Powers & Howley, 2011). Dr. Dudley Allen Sargent (1849 – 1924) was an early innovator and considered to be ahead of his time in physical education. Hired by Harvard University in 1879 to set up physical training programs, Dr. Sargent developed types of physical…