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Archive for August, 2007

Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Remember as kids how we would use the chant, “Liar, liar, pants on fire”, when one of our buddies would get caught telling a big whopper? It was harmless yet still reinforced to the guilty party, “Don’t lie!” […]

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Woe is the Sprinting Deficient

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

So what is the key to reducing the number of lower extremity muscle strains during 2 a day football practices?
Conditioning!
What kind of conditioning?
Running Conditioning! More specific still sprinting conditioning!
This all sounds very simple and it is. But getting certain kids and coaches to buy in to this can be a daunting task. One […]

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