RUNNING AND JUMPING SPORTS
Most sports involve a small number of modalities used in each of the four categories; however, running and jumping, at least the fundamentals of their exercises, are activities that are at the core of the majority of sports.
Athletes are given gifts of size and the ability to learn and understand at certain speeds. But all athletes need to be taught how to sprint with efficiency. Athletes need to taught how to jump with ease and power, too.
We explain this in more detail during our seminars.
Running
A form of locomotion that allows humans to move rapidly on foot, the movement is characterized by repetitive aerial and ground phases.
If only given one activity to help create an amazing athlete, sprinting would be it. The body has to be strong to sprint. It has to be mobile and simultaneously stable. It has to be coordinated, and that coordination mixed with power creates an efficiency that is universal throughout all sports.
Jumping
A form of locomotion or movement in which humans propel themselves into the air, vertically or horizontally or some angle between, in a ballistic manner and with the intent to perform an athletic movement.
Jumping is power. It is our first power. We reach full extension of the ankles, knees and hips in an explosive manner that begets everything from serving a tennis ball to kicking a football to hitting a volleyball and doing a tumbling run.
PRIMARY SPORT EXAMPLES
Running/Jumping athletes include: Track and Field Sprinters, Middle distance and Long distance runners as well as Heptathletes, Decathletes, Pentathletes, Long Jumpers, Triple Jumpers and High Jumpers, Hurdlers, Marathoners, Speed Walkers
American Football Tail Backs and Defensive Backs, Rugby Backs, Soccer Defensive Players, Cross Country Skiers, Snow Shoers, Mountain Climbers, Speed Skaters - short and long track, Cyclists, Race Walkers, Triathletes