Sam Gardner from The USOC sits down to discuss his role in California with Paralympians. He starts out sharing his role and discussing what different types of athlete’s he gets to work with. Next, we go through each of the four different groups of Paralympians he works with, vision impaired, amputees, spinal injuries, and CP
All too often athelte’s have issues or doubts with what is going on in training. Today, Lousiville Cardinals Assistant Strength Coach Chris Hays shares with how he handles this. Chris touches upon how it has helped with buy in, and building relationships. He talks about sharing the justification behind aspects of programming, training at different
“A specialized strength exercise duplicates a specific joint action, or joints, as seen in the execution of a sports skill during competition.” For the first time that we are aware of Dr. Yessis breaks down the specialized exercises he has developed when it comes to sprinting and acceleration in his first CVCASPS presentation. He starts
What is conditioning? What are we responsible for? What are we doing? What is it that the coach is asking us to do? All of these are questions that a new coach has said, or thought at some point. Do not feel like you are alone in the search for these answers. Merriam-Webster defines it
Today we are joined by Stanford University’s, and Strong By Science’s Max Schmarzo to discuss the world of applied sports science. Max starts out by sharing with us what his role is at Stanford, and how he got there. Next, he gives a step by step walk through on the process off how they develop
USA Swimming’s Keenan Robinson joins us for this week’s edition of My Thoughts Monday. Keenan shares a quote from Michael Brooks of Kings Aquatic Club, “if they’re broke at 12 they’ll be broke at 16” and breaks down his thoughts on this. He shares how he sees this connects to technique work in the weight
“Chinese technique is another secret weapon. It means Chinese players emphasis the small techniques, and excel at these techniques and have the best basics.” Dr. Mianfang Raun joined us from Ningbo University to discuss the system utilized in China for developing highly successful athletes. Dr. Raun starts out sharing with how the system was set
“In all successful sprint programs the main focus is on fast sprinting across different distances and intensities over much of the year.”- H. Andersson Strength coaches looking to develop a sprint program or work on speed training for their respective teams should read this chapter. Andersson does a fantastic job of going through the different
