“The best nutritional ergogenics are only as good as the training plan.” In 2014 Rick Brunner joined us to discuss his research and writing on nutritional support for improving performance in explosive athletes. Rick was able to take trips to the USSR in the 80s and Russia in the 90’s to get a behind the…
In this 2 part series Rice Owls Basketball Strength Coach Sean Brown shares with us his program that he utilized through the 2017-18 season with his team. Part One is an overview of the program, while Part Two is the program in it entirety, the results achieved, and Coach Brown’s evaluation (both pro and con) of…
Power development is one of the most sought after training adaptations. In order to understand how to develop power, one has to first understand the physics behind power and how power expression is quite contextual. Power = Force x Velocity Power is the ability to express force at a given velocity. The interesting thing about human movement…
“We talk about all these, don’t start to early in sport specific training, be multi dimensional in your training for sports before you specialize. Really, it’s not different in strength and conditioning. I don’t think any of us, when we first started, necessarily were looking at it from the stand point of being a one…
“Ya know, there were a lot of us who were the dumb guys who did that and thought we were untouchable and unbreakable and that we could grind 5 days like that. Ya know, and pull those legitimate 80-90 hour weeks without stopping. We’ve all done it, it’s cool, especially when you’re young and there’s…
“Desire to create resistance to lactate in training is a dead end in training” In 2014 we had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Viktor Seluyanov to The Seminar. Dr. Seluyanov had been a man that many of the top coaches in the country had been referencing due to the development of his theoretical training principles….
“Stress demands rest, and rest supports stress.” – Stulberg and Magness Peak Performance was one of the easiest books I have ever read. While there are plenty of research and literature references Stulberg and Magness fall back on, this book reads like a memoir. This aspect is what I liked most about this book; the…
“Everything we do is completely individualized.” Most strength & conditioning coaches, myself included, have probably spoken some variation of this line at some point in their career in an attempt to better sell and increase the value of their program. Over my few years in the field, I’ve struggled to determine what “individualizing” a program…
