Saturday, March 22, 2025
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US Sports Martial Arts: What Are the Best Cardio Drills for MMA? and Rodtang Didn’t Expect THIS From Takeru 😳 Kickboxing Full Fight
- By Owen Reilly
In MMA, Cardio is one of the most important factors that can decide the outcome of a fight. To many fighters, cardio is a part of a daily routine that is a mandatory part of their training. However, those with the best cardio at both the professional and amateur levels specifically train cardio that applies to MMA. Although jogging a few miles is great cardio in general, it may not be the most efficient and effective way to spend your time. In this blog, we review five of the best cardio drills that are specific to MMA.
Assault Bike Intervals
The assault bike provides fighters with an amazing cardio workout while also building muscle groups in the legs, arms, and back. It utilizes ‘air-based’ resistance meaning that the faster and harder you pedal, the more resistance the bike will provide. Furthermore, the exercise has a very low impact on your body compared to a high-impact exercise such as running. Three to five rounds of three to five minutes with a 30 to 60-second rest in between each round is a good routine that mirrors the timing and intensity of an actual MMA fight.
Jump-Rope
Using a jump rope to improve your cardio is another exercise that offers ‘MMA specific’ benefits for training and competing. Firstly, Jumping rope allows you to work on your footwork and agility skills while also improving your hand-eye coordination. This exercise, though considered to be high-impact, improves your explosiveness and strengthens your leg muscles. The portability and cheap cost of the jump rope also make this exercise widely available to those who train in mixed martial arts. Specific jump rope drills include high-knees, skipping, the side swing crossover, and the boxer step drill. Three to five rounds of three to five minutes with variations in the specific jump rope drill you are doing should provide an adequate workout for those training and competing.
Hill Sprints and Stair Runs
Stair runs and hill sprints, similar to the jump rope, improve your cardio, footwork, and agility. These two similar exercises offer more examples of a high-intensity, high-impact workout that greatly increases your leg and core strength. The added mental fortitude gained from repeatedly running hills or stairs will also help you when fighting through fatigue in competition or practice. Doing these exercises in intervals will also further increase your body's ability to recover after short intense bursts of energy. 20-30 seconds of sprinting coupled with 30-60 seconds of rest throughout five to twelve rounds will greatly improve your body's anaerobic ability.
Swimming
Swimming is a full-body, low-impact, aerobic workout that improves both your endurance and strength. Swimming also increases your lung capacity and ability to control your breathing, both of which, are crucial in a competitive fight. The various styles of swimming also allow you to target specific muscle groups based on your needs. Swimming can also be used as a form of active recovery from the damage acquired in training while still building on your endurance and strength. Whether you are swimming long distances, for speed, or merely treading water, swimming offers a kind of resistance training that is unique in the sense that you are working nearly your entire body.
Shark-Tank Drills
Shark-Tank Drills include having one individual fight against multiple opponents in a specified amount of time. The constant stream of opponents greatly improves endurance and elevates your ability to fight through adversity. These drills perfectly mirror the intensity and level of cardio necessary for competitions. It also allows you to work on actual MMA techniques while fatigued. This drill is, however, very high-impact and puts immense stress on the body. Despite this, the benefits of improved cardio, the chance to refine your techniques, and the opportunity to fortify your mental strength make shark-tank drills an incredibly useful tool when preparing for competition.
Each of these drills provide the high-intensity, explosive experience that you will undergo when training and competing. With almost every fighter continuously working on their cardio, training intelligently is crucial, and adhering to these workouts will provide you with a slight edge over your opponents. For more tips and technical training, check out the link below to see the wide variety of courses that Coachtube has to offer:
Friday, March 21, 2025
US Sports Volleyball: The Complete Exercise Program for the Female Volleyball Player and Orlando Valkyries VS San Diego Mojo HIGHLIGHTS
A variety of exercises that are designed to help physically developed women volleyball players at any level of fitness
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"Regarded as one of the top volleyball minds in the country, Brian Gimmillaro will have administrative oversight of both the beach and indoor volleyball programs at Long Beach State. Honored in 2008 with induction into the AVCA Hall of Fame, Gimmillaro has led his Alma Mater to three NCAA Championships and eight Final Four appearances in women's volleyball, and will help usher in a new era as the leader of an emerging sport in sand volleyball.
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Long Beach State has a tremendous tradition of producing fine beach volleyball players that have found great success worldwide.
That list would certainly include Misty May-Treanor, arguably the greatest women's beach volleyball player in the world. May-Treanor is the all-time tournament wins leader in both professional and international competition, and with her partner Kerri Walsh, will be attempting to win a third straight Olympic Gold medal in London in 2012 after reaching the sport's pinnacle at both the Athens Olympics in 2004 and the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
May-Treanor's journey started at Long Beach State, where as a two-time National Player of the Year, she led the 49ers to the first perfect record in NCAA history on the way to a National Championship in 1998, Gimmillaro's third title.
Many other players have starred in beach volleyball after working under Gimmillaro's tutelage as well. Jenn Snyder and Brittany Hochevar are both among the nation's top money winners in professional beach volleyball. Alicia (Mills) Polzin was a member of Gimmillaro's first NCAA championship team in 1989, and has competed in beach volleyball for over 20 years.
Gimmillaro has been consistently one of the best coaches in the indoor game as well. He ranks 14th in Division I history with 789 career wins, and ranks in the Top 10 among active coaches in both total wins and winning percentage at the Division I level.
Gimmillaro graduated from Long Beach State in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. Gimmillaro has two children, a son, Stefan, and daughter, Lauren."
Thursday, March 20, 2025
US Sports Softball: How to Create Runs on the Softball Basepaths and #2 Texas vs #3 Florida 2025 Highlights
- By Grant Young
Because the bases in softball are 60 feet away from each other, there’s a common misconception that softball baserunning isn’t as important a part of the game as hitting, fielding, or pitching.
Yet, any coach who believes that’s true is doing themselves a disservice when it comes to maximizing their own team’s potential.
A softball team’s ability to run the bases well can spell the difference between winning and losing. And because softball is a game of inches, learning how to teach and practice the fine details of baserunning (such as being able to slide effectively, crafting ways to score from third base, and communication between coaches and baserunners (and between baserunners and other baserunners)) could steal your team some wins throughout the course of a season; especially in the postseason, when the margin between teams is often minuscule.
And Wade Womack knows this better than just about anyone else.
Coach Womack has been a head coach of various high school women’s softball programs for over two decades and has been running the Dripping Springs High School’s softball program in Dripping Springs, Texas, for over 10 years alone. Coach Womack has guided two teams to the State Tournament at Medina Valley and won the State Championship in 2007.
This past 2024 softball season, Coach Womack’s Dripping Springs team won the 6A District 26 Championship. Head coach Wade Womack was named the district’s Coach of the Year.
Coach Womack believes that the secret to his sustained success has been the advantage his teams have over opponents on the basepaths. He imparted a few of his best baserunning lessons and insights in his ‘Creating Havoc on the Basebaths & Other Philosophies’ course from the Texas High School Coaches Association. This course is a gold mine for any softball coach who wants to turn their team’s baserunning into a lethal winning weapon.
15 Ways a Runner Can Score From Third
While Coach Womack noted that there are probably some ways a runner can score on third that he missed, the fact that there are 15 is pretty astounding. In fact, we’ll note that Coach Womack missed a balk, so there are at least 16 ways a runner can score from third.
But Coach Womack’s 15 ways are: base hit (including single, double, and a triple), sacrifice fly, passed ball, wild pitch, obstruction, suicide squeeze, safety squeeze, fielder’s choice, straight steal of home, delayed steal of home, error off a batted ball, catcher overthrows pitcher after the pitch, catcher throws ball away on attempted pickoff, 1st and 3rd base strategies/set plays, and bases loaded walk/hit by pitch.
And the reason Coach Womack brings these up are to highlight the importance of getting runners over to third base. Especially for a team that is more focused on creating contact and playing small ball as opposed to driving the ball out of the yard, a main focus of yours should be getting runners over to third base at all costs.
Especially in the game’s lower levels, where mistakes among fielders and pitchers are more common, getting a runner to third base is nearly as good as scoring them outright.
4 Bag Fly Ball Base Running and Communication Drill
In his course, Coach Womack details a drill that he likes to use to instill proper base running techniques and outfield communication among his players. He calls it the 4 bag fly ball base running and communication drill.
It begins with players starting at all four bases. From there, the drill starts with the runner at home running out a ground ball to first then turning inside after hitting the bag, in order to assess whether one of the middle infielders is being lazy and allowing an opportunity to steal second.
After that, the runner who started on first will simulate a fly ball getting hit, where they get halfway to second base and watch to see whether or not the ball is caught.
After that rep, the runners at second will practice tagging up and heading to third. When the ball is hit or thrown into the outfield, the runner will watch the ball with their drive foot always pointing to the next bag. As soon as the ball is caught, the runner should tag up and go for third.
And the runner at third base will tag up and advance in the same way when it’s their turn.
In addition, Coach Womack notes that while doing this drill, he’s hitting the fly balls between outfielders in two positions (ideally center and right field), and having them practice communication with one another.
Sliding
Coach Womack notes that learning how to slide properly is not only a crucial part of being a good team on the base paths, but it’s also integral to keeping your players safe.
One of Coach Womack’s rules is that players are not to slide head first into home plate under any circumstance. He also notes that coaches should be instructing players to slide to the outside of every bag, in order to best avoid the tag during a throw.
The one exception to this is if the runner is sliding into second base and the second baseman is coming toward the bag to cover. In this situation, the runner will likely want to slide toward the inside of second base in order to be as far away from that tag as possible.
Another reason to slide to the outside of home plate is because, even if the catcher is obstructing the bag, that call rarely gets made (especially at the high school level).
Incorporating these tools from Coach Womack is a great way to improve your team’s baserunning and begun running your way to wins.
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
US Sports Golf: Three Ways to Make More Difficult Putts and SCOTTI3: THE PLAYERS Championship 3-Peat Pursuit
- By Grant Young
Putting in golf can be incredibly frustrating. The delicate nature of judging the green, coupled with the pressure to execute a flawless stroke, often leads to intense frustration when putts don't go as planned. Even the smallest mishaps in alignment or speed can result in a missed putt, making it a source of frustration for golfers at all levels.
Putting is difficult for several reasons. Firstly, reading the greens accurately to determine the break and speed of the putt is a highly challenging task. Additionally, maintaining a smooth and consistent putting stroke, especially under pressure, is crucial for success. The smallest error in alignment or pace can result in the ball missing the hole, making it a mentally and physically demanding aspect of the game. And because putting can seem so hopeless for even the most seasoned golfers, the failure to perform on the putting green can ruin an otherwise great day at the course.
There are plenty of putting lessons online where you can glean some solid tips on how to improve various aspects of your game. But there is only one Geoff Mangum.
Coach Geoff Mangum has spent over 25 years researching and studying everything there is to know about putting. He is recognized as the world's top expert in how the brain and vision work when targeting and making movements in putting. His unique approach combines traditional knowledge with modern science.
Mangum is one of the top putting coaches in the world and has a very successful website called puttingzone.com, where Mangum has been investigating the science of how the brain and body operate to perform the “skills” of putting for the first (and still the only time) in golf history, revolutionizing the game that has long only taught ad hoc tips and drills mostly for stroke alone, but without teaching how perceptions form and guide movements and how “brains do ‘physics’ predicting and executing reading, aiming, stroke, and touch”.
Coach Mangum’s ‘Reading Greens and Making Putts’ course discloses many tips that only someone who has dedicated their life to putting can glean. Regardless of where on your golf journey you are right now, the following bits of advice from Coach Mangum are guaranteed to improve your game on the green.
Lag Putting
Knowing how to execute a proper lag putt on the green can make a major difference on a scorecard. For anyone who doesn’t know, A lag putt in golf is a long putt that a golfer attempts to get close to the cup but doesn't expect to make. The goal is to get the ball within a 3-foot circle around the cup when making the putt.
Coach Mangum has a rule of thumb to improve a golfer’s lag putts. He recommends that the distance should always be to the fall line on the high side of the hole, which should make for a relatively accurate target to aim for when making the lag putt.
For the rule of thumb, Coach Mangum first wants golfers to imagine the general average slope grade of the section of the green you’re putting on, which will get you some general percentage (for a rather steep green, it would be about 4%).
Then you will want to count the number of military paces there is between where you ball in and the hole. Finally, you will want to multiply that number by the percentage you took earlier and will use that answer to find out how many inches you want to aim up the fall line from the center of the hole.
While this is going to involve a lot of guesswork if you’re able to estimate nearly enough of all of these figures and execute the putt to that new target, Coach Mangum is convinced you’ll produce a putt you’re proud of.
Difficult Putts
When it comes to having to make a difficult put on a steep surface, the first read you will want to make as it pertains to making the putt is the surface flatness of where the actual hole is located. Once you have a good idea of that, that will provide a solid baseline of where to angle a putt.
After doing so, you will want to figure out where the green’s contour lines are. Contour lines show the green's topography and slope, which can help golfers determine their putting line because of how they indicate the slope’s severity.
Essentially, you’ll be looking for a line where the steepness of the green changes. Once you do so, you’ll figure out that the fall line (an imaginary line that runs through the center of the cup and indicates the direction of a straight downhill putt) is going to be exactly perpendicular to that contour line. This will help you line up where you should be aiming your difficult putt.
Closing Comments
While there are numerous calculations and reads that Coach Mangum referenced that can be beneficial to improving your putting, his bottom line is that putting well is always going to come down to touch.
What he means by this is that having a consistent delivery speed (the firmness with which you’re connecting your putter to the ball) when putting is what truly differentiates between good and great golfers.
While
some of this is natural, any golfer can hone their touch by consciously
thinking about it while playing and spending a put of time on the
putting greens. In other words, the best way to become a better putter is to actually go out and practice your putting.
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
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US Sports Hockey. Which Hockey Position Should I Play? | Hockey Positions Guide and NHL Highlights Kings vs. Wild
- By Jackson Chlebowy
For young hockey players just getting started, it can be exciting and overwhelming trying to choose where they want to play. To pick the best hockey position for you or your child, you/they have to understand their strengths and weaknesses on the ice. Each position requires a specific skill set that young players need to develop if they want to be successful hockey players. Every position plays a crucial role in the success of the team, and knowing which position best suits you/your child’s strengths, skills and instincts can make a huge difference in their development and enjoyment of the game.
Goaltender
The goaltender's job is simple, yet extremely difficult. Stop the puck from going in the net. This is not a position for the faint of heart as this player has to be prepared to stand in front of hard shots and fend off crashing forwards. Playing Goalie in hockey requires immense skill, concentration, and mental toughness. The best of the best have incredible hand-eye coordination, agility, flexibility, and composure under pressure.
A good goaltender can’t ever get caught up on mistakes or goals scored against them. Goals are going to happen, but a poor mental or emotional reaction to getting scored on can cause a snowball effect leading to more goals and mistakes.
Being a taller player may also be beneficial when playing goaltender. Having extra size and length can make it easier to cover the goal, but should not be a determining factor in choosing the position. Regardless of size, a goalie has to be agile, quick, and cerebral if they want to be successful at any level.
Necessary skills:
- Quick reflexes and hand-eye coordination
- Strong lateral movement and agility
- Mental toughness and concentration
Defense
Defensemen are the spine of your team's defensive structure. Their primary job is to defend their net and prevent the other team from getting scoring chances. This means shadowing attacking players, battling for the puck in the corners, and collecting and clearing pucks out of the zone. In today's game, there are a couple of different types of defensemen (Offensive defensemen, defensive defensemen, or some combination of the 2).
One thing that all defensemen have in common is they are tough. Whether it be battling along the wall, standing in the shooting lanes, or protecting your net, playing defense requires physicality and aggression. That being said defensemen also need to be some of the smartest players on the ice. D-men need to be aware of their surroundings, constantly scanning the ice looking for attacking players, passing lanes, and opportunities to disrupt the play.
Along with their defensive responsibilities, defensemen have to be quick decision-makers and accurate passers. The breakout relies heavily on the first pass, which often comes from a defenseman. To play the position, players have to be competent puck movers and able to handle constant pressure from forecheckers when handling the puck.
More offensive-minded defensemen should have passing, skating, and shooting skills more closely associated with wingers and centers. As a defenceman, they still have to take care of their defensive responsibilities. Offensive defensemen might be more aggressive in the offensive zone and can because of their strong skating abilities, and anticipation skills. A good offensive defenseman has to make smart decisions, or else they could give up odd-man opportunities.
Necessary skills:
- Strong skating ability (forward and backward)
- Defensive awareness and positioning
- Physicality
- Puck handling and passing skills
Winger
Wingers play along the perimeter of the ice and are often responsible for generating offense for your team. As players get older, they will better define what type of forward they are (Sniper, Playmaker, Power Forward) but for now, they should focus on practicing skills required by all of those archetypes. Skills like puck handling, shooting, passing, vision, physicality, and most importantly, skating ability.
Because wingers are mainly in charge of generating offense, they should be strong skaters with good puck-handling skills. They should have good vision and senses, able to find dangerous passing opportunities, and soft areas of the ice to attack.
Because Wingers are offensively focused, they tend to have fewer defensive responsibilities. They often play along the wall or up near the opponent's defensemen, so they should be prepared to disrupt shooting lanes and block shots. Wingers are also integral in generating pressure on the forecheck. They need to be willing to battle and chase their opponents around for the puck looking to create turnovers.
Necessary skills:
- Fast and powerful skating
- Superior puckhandling skills
- Accurate shot
- Playmaking vision and anticipation
Center
The center is one of the hardest-working players on the ice. Centers are in charge of taking faceoffs as well as patrolling the middle of the ice in both the offensive and defensive zones. A good center is the last forward to leave the Dzone and the first forward back on the backcheck. This role takes endurance and lots of hard work. In the defensive zone, centers are responsible for the slot, as well as supporting their defensemen in the corners. On offense, centers need to be intelligent, finding open ice, drawing defenders away, and setting up their teammates with good vision. Young players wanting to play center should have strong work ethic, passing and puckhandling skills, and quick and safe decision making.
Necessary skills:
- Stamina and work ethic
- Face-off ability
- Hockey IQ and ability to read plays
- Passing vision and puck support
Choosing Your Best Fit
Each hockey position requires a truly unique skill set. For young players who are new to hockey, the best way to pick what position they want to play is by trying them all! Coaches and parents should encourage every player to experiment and develop their all-around skills before picking a position. Another great way to decide what position to play is by watching the NHL. Watching the best of the best will help identify skills and habits that will give you or your child the best chance of succeeding in those roles. Once you find your position, commit to developing your skills. Finally, Don't forget to have fun! That's what playing hockey is all about.
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