Sports Performance

We tend to think that being good in any sport is a combination of natural ability, training, practice and good coaching.  And that is true.  But many other factors come into play especially in this day and age of sophisticated technology and medical advances.  Just look at how massive the nutritional industry is today. 

But of all the factors involved in human sports performance one of the most important  and certainly one of the most overlooked is – Biomechanical structural analysis; i.e.  evaluating athletes structural abnormalities.   If we simply take the premise that we do not live in a perfect world than it is not hard to understand that we are not perfect either.  Yes, everyone (“Weekend Warriors and world class athletes alike) has structural abnormalities to some extent and these not only decrease our performance but increase our risks of injuries.  And this affects us in every sport.

The great Sam Sneed may not have realized just how pertinent to all sports his statement was when he said, “All good golf begins at the waist.  All great golf begins at the foot.”  The human foot is the foundation of our entire skeletal system and as such, “How it goes, so goes our performance.”  A flattened foot (pronation) for example will make us run slower, have less agility, make us unable to optimize our strength, create balance issues and make us much more prone to injury. 

Finding structural abnormalities and optimizing them (not just eliminating them) is “The Missing Link” in human sports performance!  No one can ever reach their optimal potential without correcting those abnormalities.