Drew’s Review: “Based on the literature, there appears to be no single causative factor in RSA” –Dr. B. Peterson The Manual (CVASP, 2016) chapter 8 is a great review of all things repeat sprint ability (RSA) or as Dr. Peterson identifies as repeat sprint exercise (RSE) for team sports. This was a great topic for
This is a bit of a different edition of The Podcast. Today we bring back the video interview from University of Wisconsin’s Jim Snider leading into The 2015 Seminar. In the talk Jim discusses the exact programming he’s using with his athlete’s at that time to help best prepare them for the work he had
This is a bit of a different edition of The Podcast. Today we bring back the video interview from University of Iowa’s Landon Evans leading into The 2015 Seminar. Landon discusses the progression that was occurring at Iowa building a sports performance group to help improve their athlete-centered model. Along with bringing back this talk
Many of you reading this have seen my presentations on YouTube (Case Study 1, Case Study 2, Boston) where I talk about how we program, and why we do things. The simple idea of constantly progressing and moving forward to help improve performance of the athlete is something that I have stood by for a long
Drew’s Review: “In high level sports, things that are left uncontrolled and up to chance increase the risk of injury, overtraining, and underperforming-all of which can lead to a strength coach getting fired.” –Dr. B. Mann Velocity based training! Bryan Mann! I’m sure these two statements have become commonplace in your weight room. Yes, chapter
In this episode of The Podcast I sit down and discuss training with fly wheels, in particular the kBox with ETSU PHD candidates John Wagle and Kevin Carroll. We start out discussing what fly wheel training is and how it works, which leads us to what they are looking at with the fly wheel in
For those of you who know me, I’m a bit different with how I handle things in the weight room. We could talk about the 1×20 forever, but I think the main thing we should discuss is the autonomy I give to the student athletes. If we look at a lot of the lifts/exercises we
Drew’s Review: “This program is geared towards increasing the level of physical preparedness of middle-level basketball players with the goal of increasing the speed of game displacements, vertical jump height, and power of chest and overhead ball passes.” –Dr. N. Verkhoshansky The Manual (CVASP, 2016) chapter 6, as the quote I used to describe it,
