Probably the most often mentioned goal of any strength and conditioning program, amongst other common training targets, is injury prevention. Obviously, injury prevention is very important. If an athlete is injured, they may not be able to play to their full potential, if at all. But does this mean we have to program specific, injury…
Agility in sports is typically a response to what is seen. Agility is a rapid, whole-body change of direction or speed in response to a stimulus. That stimulus can be an opponent, a teammate, a ball, or a position on the field. Agility is a distinct quality underpinned by physical qualities such as deceleration (eccentric…
The 2015 Seminar saw the return of many past presenters, and the first we will discuss is Dr. Ben Peterson’s talk “Using Data to Improve Metabolic Specificity and Conditioning for Team Sport Athletes”. Ben went through a review of his 2013 talk, Effect of Aerobic Capacity on Repeated Sprint Performance, and added his recent finding…
2015 Seminar Presentation Schedule
In this edition of the Central Virginia Sport Performance Podcast University of Kentucky’s High Performance Coach discusses monitoring, student athlete education, longer term athlete development, and his topic for The Seminar. Erik is truly the trail blazer in The USA when it comes to the high performance model starting the program at FSU before heading…
I told all in attendance that I would screen shot my talk and post it. Well, it took a little longer than I would have liked to get it up here because I did something wrong with the initial screen shot. Thank you to BSMPG and Art Horne for having me and allowing me to…
In this edition of the Central Virginia Sport Performance Podcast 2015 Presenter and Baylor University’s Director of Applied Performance Andrew Althoff discusses his role as Applied Performance Director. His unique perspective based on his background and the culture of the department bring to light some key points that anyone look at different measureables can take…
Today I take great pride in introducing our final presenter for The 2015 Seminar, University of Houston’s Cross Country Coach Steve Magness. Coach Magness is the author of THE book on running, operates an amazing internet educational source (http://www.scienceofrunning.com), and is a PhD candidate. His extensive background in coaching and research, combined with his desire…
