Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...season, however, only represents the time when the athletes have the greatest commitment to their teams. The off-season is just as time consuming if the athlete is also devoted to their sport...
...down to how hard [an athlete] wants to work at it in the off-season, which will pay off during the season," says Dominik Sardo, Harvard's strength and conditioning coach, who structures most of the varsity team's training regimens in collaboration with the coaches of the particular sport. "People who work hard earn the right to win. They get everything the hard way...and that's true for any sport...
Sardo explains that a serious athlete tries to gain as much strength and conditioning as he possibly can during the off-season to become better at his sport and to prevent injuries during the competitive season. When designing an off-season program, Sardo takes into account the sport, the physical demands of the sport, and the type of athleticism involved in the sport...
...Different sports require different demands...but individually each sport is working just as hard proportionally to other sports," says Sardo...
...training goes, weight-lifting, sprinting, long-distance running, plyometrics and sport-specific ball drills are the fundamentals tools in most athletes' off-season arsenal...