When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020, trainer and skills coach Tim Martin was out on a tennis court four days a week in Dallas, demonstrating different drills with no one else there. It was just him and his laptop as he conducted workouts through Zoom. His client was 5,000 miles away in Paris with a pair of AirPods in, listening intently to Martin’s instructions and then almost immediately implementing them correctly. Then-16-year-old Victor Wembanyama was like no one Martin had ever… Source link
Read More »Angels trainer says Mike Trout will likely have to manage back condition for ‘the rest of his career’
Mike Trout‘s status as the best MLB player of his generation remains intact, but injuries have become a concern for the Los Angeles Angels star. Now, he apparently has something he’ll have to deal with for a while. Angels head athletic trainer Mike Frostad told The Athletic’s Sam Blum that Trout, who has been out since July 12 with a back issue, has been diagnosed with a condition called costovertebral dysfunction at T5 that could be a long-term issue. From The Athletic: “I think we have to… Source link
Read More »Trainer banned for giving horse a racist name
Horse trainer Eric Guillot has been banned by the New York Racing Association and 1/ST Racing for changing the name of one of his horses to a racial slur, which was directed at a Black TVG analyst. Guillot, who has made $13 million over his career from horses he trained, tweeted on Jan. 1 that the three-year-old colt he was running at Aqueduct Racetrack was being given a new name “in honor of a TVG analyst,” and followed that with a Black fist emoji. He revealed in a follow-up tweet that… Source link
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