{"id":309,"date":"2009-07-24T11:36:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T18:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.brianschiff.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2009-07-24T11:36:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T18:36:31","slug":"lower-body-reaching-progressions-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brianschiff.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Lower Body Reaching Progressions (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As fall sports near, many athletes are taking to the field again.\u00a0 We have been busy training soccer, field hockey, football\u00a0and lacrosse athletes this summer.\u00a0 I am doing a speed clinic for a local varsity female field hockey team in 2 weeks.\u00a0 One of the things I always educate coaches and players\u00a0on is single leg reaching progressions.<\/p>\n<p>Why?\u00a0 Because they can be implemented on the field quickly and easily without equipment.\u00a0 In addition, they address balance and strengthening together.\u00a0 Most athletes I see need hip strengthening anyway, and these drills will provide dynamic strength work for them.\u00a0 This will inevitably decrease injury potential.<\/p>\n<p>I have included a series of single leg reaches that you can easily implement in your training protocols as well.\u00a0 If you are not using these, please consider adding them immediately.\u00a0 You may be surprised to find that even your best athletes may struggle with some of these or have poor balance\/stability.\u00a0 Any athletes with hypermobility will benefit from the stability training and likely see fewer ankle and knee injuries.<\/p>\n<p>I will show you a series of lower leg reaches today as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Anterior reach<\/li>\n<li>Posterior reach<\/li>\n<li>Anterior to posterior reach<\/li>\n<li>Lateral reach<\/li>\n<li>Diagonal cross-over reach<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><div id=\"viddlervideo-21766-ca3e9bfd\" class=\"viddlervideo\"><p><a href=\"#viddlervideo-21766-ca3e9bfd\" onclick=\"loadViddlerVideo('21766','ca3e9bfd','player',437,370);\" title=\"Click to play this video.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"437\" height=\"370\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn-thumbs.viddler.com\/e2\/thumbnail_2_ca3e9bfd.jpg\" alt=\"Video thumbnail.\" \/><\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"#viddlervideo-21766-ca3e9bfd\" onclick=\"loadViddlerVideo('21766','ca3e9bfd','player',437,370);\" return false;\">Click to play this video.<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned, as I will share my single leg upper body reaching progression in the next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As fall sports near, many athletes are taking to the field again.\u00a0 We have been busy training soccer, field hockey, football\u00a0and lacrosse athletes this summer.\u00a0 I am doing a speed clinic for a local varsity female field hockey team in 2 weeks.\u00a0 One of the things I always educate coaches and players\u00a0on is single leg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,31,5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-injury-prevention","category-knee","category-sports-performance","category-training"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - 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