In today’s edition of The Podcast, I sit down and talk Functional Movement Screen with Charlie Weingroff. Charlie shares with us the why’s of the FMS, and some key factors that determine why he feel’s it is so important. He then touches upon some issues coaches have with it, and why those may be just
Drew’s Review: “The main task is to develop differentiated and specific programs for fast twitch and slow twitch dominant athletes.” –H. Kraaijenhof Chapter 5 of The Manual (CVASP, 2016), focuses on the idea of muscle fiber type specific training and how it should be one of the tools utilized by a strength coach to get
In today’s episode of The Podcast we have The Movement Miyagi himself Shawn Myszka on to discuss how he evaluates his athlete’s and looks at movement in competition to help improve their performance. We start out looking at how he handles his athlete’s in season. We then touch upon what common sports problems are, how to
When we went through our initial meetings the head coach of this team stated how important “fitness” was to the success of the team, so let’s discuss how we are training that first. Three days a week we are doing some conditioning work, and we are following the MAS protocol covered by Dr. Dan Baker
Drew’s Review: “Practice does not make perfect, practice makes permanent” –J. Moyer Continuing my review of The Manual (CVASP, 2016); chapter four, written by Jeff Moyer (Owner/Dynamic Correspondence Sports Training), is as the title suggests about motor learning and how it can be taught to achieve the desired skills needed in sports. Chapter 4 is
Today we introduce the sixth presenter for The 2017 Seminar, USA Swimming’s High Performance Director, Keenan Robinson. Keenan has worked with swimmers from North Baltimore Aquatics Club, University of Michigan and Team Wolverine, Arizona State, and USA Swimming along side with all time great, Coach Bob Bowman. The success they’ve had has been immense, with their athlete’s Olympic medal totals approaching
In today’s edition of The Podcast GYM Ferris owner Jim Ferris sits down to discuss training. Jim beings with telling us the origin of The Shield. We then discuss the assessment, and how he approaches the training of other coaches’ athlete’s (college and pro’s on break). We then get into his programming and how he
In #1 I told you why I’m doing this, and in #2 I told you how we got here, now let’s talk about why we are going to evaluate what we are going to evaluate. The sport coach split the primary objectives into two categories: more fit and athletic. We then defined them with the
