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Good morning. A new study points to the hip flexors and adductors for faster sprinting, a closer look at the new U.S. Soccer training center ahead of the world cup, and Raiders receiver Tre Tucker credits the strength staff for being his only constant. Let's get into it.
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🏈 Tre Tucker Says The Strength Staff Has Been His Only Constant In Vegas
Las Vegas Raiders receiver Tre Tucker is entering his fourth NFL season, and in that time he's played for four different head coaches and three different general managers. The franchise has cycled through six head coaches in six years overall.
Through all of it, head S&C coach AJ Neibel, head athletic trainer Chris Cortez, and their staffs have been the one constant for Tucker since the day he was drafted in 2023. Tucker told reporters this week that having that continuity, when nothing else in the building has stayed the same, has meant a lot to him as he develops as a pro. Read More
⚽️ Inside The USMNT's New Training Center Ahead of the World Cup
The USMNT is training out of the new Arthur M. Blank U.S. Soccer National Training Center south of Atlanta ahead of the World Cup. The setup includes a 10,000-square-foot high-performance gym built for strength and conditioning, sports science, and recovery work, with ŌURA on as a founding partner alongside Nike. There's also a 115,000-square-foot indoor turf training facility for year-round work, and a full-size futsal and power soccer court.
The training center's general manager Tom Norton said the goal is to pull performance, recovery, coaching, player development, and athlete care into the same daily environment instead of running them in silos. Read More
🏃 Want To Run Faster? Train Your Hips.
A new study in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering used full-body musculoskeletal modeling to figure out which muscles matter most for sprint speed, and the answer landed on the hips.
A 10% increase in hip strength produced a 2.59% bump in maximum sprinting speed, compared to 1.02% at the ankle and just 0.33% at the knee. Within the hip, the hip flexors (iliopsoas) and hip adductors (adductor longus and magnus) drove the biggest gains. The mechanism is step frequency. Past about 7 m/s step length stops growing and faster turnover is the only way to go faster, and the flexors and adductors are what swing the leg through quickly enough to make that happen. The authors also noted that strengthening the glutes, hamstrings, and vasti improves sprint speed only marginally. See More
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