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…
REVIEW: “It seems paradoxical that in our modern world where knowledge is theoretically increasing, we are failing miserably when it comes to protecting the health of our athletes.” –Y. Johnson The third chapter of The Manual (CVASP, 2016), written by Yosef Johnson (Owner/Ultimate Athlete Concepts), highlights the causes; and provides solutions to the most…
Today we introduce our fourth presenter for The 2017 Seminar, Bartholomew Strength’s Brett Bartholomew. If you haven’t had a chance to hear Brett speak before you are in for a treat. Brett is one of the most passionate people in the world of high performance, and his ability to connect with athlete’s and coaches in…
We are joined by GWS Giants Athletic Performance Coach Lachlan Wilmot. In the discussion Lachlan shares with us the uniqueness of AFL, and how that impacts his training of the athletes. We then touch upon how he progresses the players from being drafted at around 18, all the way to veteran status. He finishes by…
