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Combining A Strength And Power Program For Semi-Professional Footballers (Afl), Christopher Joyce
Combining A Strength And Power Program For Semi-Professional Footballers (Afl), Christopher Joyce
Christopher Joyce
Training for strength through heavy resistance training will improve an athlete's ability to maximise a force that can be exerted through means of muscular tension. Combining this with power training, an athlete's ability in increasing the rate of which a muscular force can be applied through velocity or time, with use of periodised programming, this article will discuss how to enhance an athlete's overall performance. Australian Football, being a sport of high physiological conditioning needs, this article will show combined strength / power programming will meet, and excel in the expected physiological needs these athletes require. This artcile presents combined …