http://www.train2move.com/2009/07/14/squats-part-3/ Fitness, Training, Health & Conditioning Wed, 18 May 2011 20:58:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.train2move.com/2009/07/14/squats-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-3264 CollegeAthlete Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:43:57 +0000 http://www.train2move.com/?p=1381#comment-3264 This is a great post. I have had the experience of training in a very competitive college athletic program, and the thing I never saw, especially in the weight room, was an athletes evaluated, so that a training program could be built around them and their specific needs. It was always the system that had been "proven" to work, and every athlete was expected to follow it to the letter. Well, what about each athletes individual bodies and muscular systems? Although no one that I can think of suffered any squatting injuries, there were many, many hamstring pulls, quad pulls, shin splints, strains, sprains, which is commonplace at just about any college or high school nowdays. Are Coaches and Trainers so focused just on treating these injuries as they come, instead of asking why? Could it be that all the repetitive heavy lifting placed on such inefficient bodies are translating into more and more injuries on the field? This is a great post. I have had the experience of training in a very competitive college athletic program, and the thing I never saw, especially in the weight room, was an athletes evaluated, so that a training program could be built around them and their specific needs. It was always the system that had been “proven” to work, and every athlete was expected to follow it to the letter. Well, what about each athletes individual bodies and muscular systems? Although no one that I can think of suffered any squatting injuries, there were many, many hamstring pulls, quad pulls, shin splints, strains, sprains, which is commonplace at just about any college or high school nowdays. Are Coaches and Trainers so focused just on treating these injuries as they come, instead of asking why? Could it be that all the repetitive heavy lifting placed on such inefficient bodies are translating into more and more injuries on the field?

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