How Strong Is Your Female Athlete?

14 Jan How Strong Is Your Female Athlete?

If you’ve gotten The Strong Female Athlete book, chances are, you’ve gotten to page 39 where it takes you through a series of physical tests to see how in shape your female athletes are.

The truth is, most girls are over-trained and under-prepared, meaning, they do too much sport specific work and not enough strength training.

This is disastrous because when sport specific load is greater than tissue durability, that equals injury. Female athletes need to have resilient bodies that can withstand the violent actions of their sport.

To get started with the bare minimum physical tests everyone should nail down, give these a try and see how you do:

Lunge Hold Test

Perform on each leg, and hold until you lose balance, or posture falls forward and hands go on the knees.

What it evaluates: trunk stability, single leg strength

Max Crawl

Put a cone on your mid to low back and crawl with the knees off the ground for as long as possible. Stop the timer once the cone falls off or knees touch the ground.

What it evaluates: trunk stability, total body strength, coordination, core strength

Max Hang

Hang from a bar as long as possible.

What it evaluates: grip and shoulder strength, posture (longer hang times associated with longevity)

SL Deadlift Bodyweight

Perform as many as you can each side until you lose balance or posture rounds.

What it evaluates: balance, trunk stability, hamstring muscular endurance

Pull-up Hold Test

Perform with chin over bar. Stop timer when chin comes below bar.

What it evaluates: upper and core strength

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