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Let me ask you some questions. How did Tiger Woods ever play his last hole as hard as his first? How is it that Michael Jordan could consider returning to the NBA, and play successfully, at an age when most professional athletes are stuck in their seats after their pension checks? Three words.

Superior fitness.

Compare two athletes in any sport. Given equal talent and skill, the player with superior physical conditioning will win every time.

If you're serious about your sport, you need to know and live by these seven principles that I call the 7 Secrets to Developing the athlete

1. Identify the capabilities of the ideal athlete in your sport. The best way to open this part of the process is the image of the top sportsman in your sport. Ask yourself what they have abilities that make them better at what they do. Abilities are things like flexibility, strength, endurance, strength, reaction time and balance, coordination, speed, and agility.Don 't confuse the capabilities that are specific skills in selected sports. For example, a basketball player should be able to dribble running up the court. It is a skill sport-specific, not capacity. Capabilities are what underlie each skill. Now, look at each ability more closely. Consider the extreme of each ability and rate of this level of capacity of a 10 on a scale of zero to 10. For example, if you look at the flexibility, which are the most flexible athletes in the world?

Gymnasts! While gymnasts need a number to 10 degree of flexibility for successful performance. Olympic lifters would be 10 for power. push power would be 10 for strength and so on for each ability. Then take your sport and compare it to the extreme. Let's use the stock as an example. Is lacrosse require the same level of flexibility as gymnastics? Of course not! But the stock does require some fairly significant amount of flexibility of the spine, shoulders and hips.

So while it may not require a level of 10 in terms of flexibility, we can estimate the ideal level of flexibility as a 7 or 8 out of 10. At this stage, do not worry try to be accurate when determining the ideal capacity of a lacrosse player (or any other athlete for that matter) that your best estimate will not vary much from ideal unless you really have no understanding of a lacrosse player has (or your specific sport). Repeat this process for each opportunity to create your ideal athlete, in this case a lacrosse player.

When you're finished, you should have a table that looks like this. Keep in mind that the results will be different for different sports.

Optimal capacity for lacrosse, Strength - Power 6 - 8 Speed - 8 Coordination - 8 Endurance - 8 beats reaction - 8 Flexibility - 7 Agility - 8 Total Score - 61

2. Realistically assess your current capabilities. Here is the hardest part. Now you must be honest with yourself. It is time to compare your current capabilities with those of each extreme. You may or may not be as strong as a power reliever. It does not matter. Be honest! You gain nothing by overestimating or intentionally underestimate your own abilities.In fact, overestimation or underestimation of your abilities to promote the complete failure of your sports conditioning program. When you wrote your abilities, you should end up with a table that looks like this.

Your current capacity the capacity of your Strength Score - Power 6 - 6 Speed - 5 Coordination - 8 Endurance - 3 Response time - flexibility 5-5 Agility - 5 Total score - 43

Identify your weak points compared to the ideal. This part is easy. Just put your skills against what you determined to be ideal for your sport. Then just highlight the capabilities that fall below your estimate.