Rhythm in sport: adapted rhythmic training to optimize timing and enhance performance in athletes

Precise timing, the ability to control exactly when something should be done, integrates physical characteristics like strength, power, and technique into highly skilled sporting actions. Despite timing's indispensability to peak athletic performance, there exist few timing-specific training methods. The authors present a new training approach which adapts exercises from drummers, the elite timing experts, to athletes. This progressive series of rhythmic exercises cultivates a detailed, ‘top down’ cognitive framework of time which promises to enhance movement precision and efficiency.

Source: Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport - October 12, 2023 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: J. Matt McCrary, Michael Gould Tags: Short Report Source Type: research