“Sometimes even if you put everything in place right athletes don’t do what they’re supposed to do and hopefully learn from those mistakes.” In Joel’s fourth presentation at The Seminar, he gives us a glimpse into how he prepared one of the best pound for pound fighters in the history of the UFC. This talk…
“Microdosing may not be the complete answer to training, but I do feel that it represents a need for coaches to be exceptionally more precise in their administration of stress to athletes.”- D. Hansen The term microdosing is exactly what it sounds like, providing a small dose over and over to hopefully elicit a beneficial…
The importance of weight training can often be over-looked or not viewed as an essential component of training. Additionally, we are still waiting for strength training in the early stages to be appropriately implemented on a wide-spread scale. What does this mean for the collegiate strength and conditioning coach, though? The combination of these two…
“We are seeing more and more and more how the research is really supportive of the fact that negative language can really perpetuate pain and persistent pain.” After a brief introduction Dr. Zach Gabor dives right into how he’s interrupting the latest work on pain science. Dr. Zach is a big advocate when it comes…
“Science is a way of thinking and it’s an approach to answering and solving a problem. It doesn’t necessarily matter if the scientists on your campus study exactly the research questions you have, but they may bring new insights and new lenses that can really support the things you’re doing and better help you better…
“Here’s the questions, we have all this knowledge, and books, and articles, and seminars, but it’s only theory, it’s only theory. How can you apply this to this individual athlete? It’s a big question always. There are a lot of interesting things, but tonight when you’re out on the track or out on the field,…
Coach Dietz was kind enough to sit down and discuss his latest article “Single Leg vs Double Leg Training: Addressing the Controversy” with me this week. In this discussion Coach Dietz talks about why he decided on this topic, how his oscillatory method fits in and how using Track and Field and Swimming athletes help…
“In the strength and conditioning world we have to realize that everybody’s volume and intensity tolerance is slightly different, and we just got to get better at just recognizing that, and understanding that if we keep hammering away at some people they’re not going to recover they’re going to get hurt, they’re not going to…
