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Improving Your Sports Performance

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Channel: KUTV 2 News Salt Lake City · 2013 · News & Politics

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By Carla Roberts(KUTV) Young athletes want to excel at any sport they do. There are rigorous training programs to help them improve their speed, endurance and agility. These workouts are intense and to give you an idea of just how tough they can be, we had our own Adam Mikulich go through an hour long workout with an athletic trainer at The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital, or TOSH.     Now Adam is a pretty seasoned athlete. He recently ran Ragnar and also hikes and he is an avid fly fisherman. Before the workout, trainer Michael Everett showed different movements to help Adam warm-up. When we teach kids a warm-up, it is not just when the body is warm. We are trying to teach them to do things functionally correct, said Everett. If you are going to do a warm-up, why not warm-up in such a way that you are actually going to be a better runner or a better athlete.    After the warm-up, Michael has Adam go through a workout that involves running on a treadmill and plyometrics. Plyometrics is one of those words that people go what are pylometrics?. And we always say it is jumping around. But the best description I can give of it is that we are trying to decrease someones ground reaction time, said Everett.     Young athletes can enroll in the sports training program at TOSH. Trainers will customize programs to help athletes improve on their weaknesses. According to the TOSH website, the program will also help:- Agility and cutting speed- Recovery Rates- Vertical Jump- Hitting, kicking and throwing velocity and accuracy- Confidence and self-esteem.For more information on the program, visit: http://intermountainhealthcare.org/hospitals/tosh/services/sportsmedicine/Sports Training/Pages/home.aspxYou can follow Adam Mikulich on Twitter: @AdamMikulich And you can follow Adam on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/AdamMikulichKUTV?fref=ts(Copyright 2013 Sinclair Broadcasting Group)

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