Working with athletes requires an understanding of different training methods, common stress patterns and injury rehabilitation for your particular sport.

Basically every sport and movement requires balance, strength, power, agility and also speed or endurance.

Each separate sport requires different levels of the above requirements, e.g.

• A sprinter wants 10 to 30 seconds of intense strength, power, balance, agility especially speed.

• The long distance runner requires 1.5 to 3 hours of agility, balance, strength, power, mostly endurance and gait repetition.

• Australian Rules football player needs 20 minutes of endurance with random spurts of whole body speed, power, strength and agility for up to 1.5 hours.

Eighty percent of your improvements happen in the first twenty percent of an extended training plan. Making the last twenty percent of those gains is a process that needs patience and a technical approach, taking into account the specifics of your particular sport, it is the one percent improvements that improves your sporting performance, extending your playing life.

Posture, joint control and range of movement (ROM) are three important components that improve you body’s chance to work at its optimum. The human body is designed for upright posture to produce efficient movement. This component is lost with a lot of training that I have witnessed by many personal trainers.

It is easy to force a movement with that patented shrug we all own, but that shrug will actually weaken a part of your body thus reduce your optimal training.

So try to focus on these three components it will reduce a majority of possible injuries and stand tall.