This week’s “Friday with the Docs” is an absolute treat from Dr. Mainfang Ruan. Dr. Ruan has graciously offered us his dissertation, and today we are posting the first three chapters of his great work. We have spoken quite a bit about special exercises on this site, and Dr. Ruan’s research revolves around the stretch…
In today’s post Yosef Johnson of Ultimate Athlete Concepts asks some great questions about why we are implementing specific means in training and what the goal of physical preperation of athletes is actually attempting to achieve. What is the main aim of a strength/performance coach? Is it to help prevent injury? Should one adhere to the Hippocratic Oath i.e….
In today’s post we have a fragment of Dr. Issuin’s “Block Periodization:A Breakthrough in Sports Training” with the concent of Yosef Johnson of Ultimate Athlete Concepts and at the request of Dr. Issurin himself. I highly recommend this text to be part of your training library if it is not already. Thank you to…
In today’s friday with the Doc’s Dr. Yessis examines Dr. Weyand’s research and brings about two great questions: Where does the vertical force go, and how does it move us forward? Have the right conclusions been drawn regarding Usain Bolt? Over the last few weeks much attention has been given to analysis…
With the introduction of Natalia Verkhoshansky as a presenter at the 2012 Seminar, I think that it is a great time to talk about a book that she had a great part in producing. That, of course, would be “Special Strength Training Manual for Coaches.” I can honestly say that this book might be number…
I just finished reading an article by a man many of us refer to as Kiefer on EliteFTS (you can check it out here, if you haven’t I highly recommend you do). In this article “Logic Does Not Apply III: A Calorie is a Calorie” Kiefer talks about how a calorie isn’t simply calorie, and…
The inception of the Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar has granted me the great fortune of meeting some of the brightest minds in the field of physical preparation. One of those individuals is Dr. Michael Yessis. Doc has truly opened my eyes and changed my worldview of the physical preparation of athletes. Today, I’d like…
JD: Danny, thanks for taking the time to do this interview. I guess the first thing we would need is for you to introduce yourself and tell us a bit about how you got into the profession. DR: Thanks for having me J. It’s a bit funny actually: I never really knew this profession “existed”…
