Today’s My Thoughts Monday is a Hakan Andersson’s recount of his trip to RVA for The 2017 Seminar. On 21-22 July I was invited to lecture at the University of Richmond’s wonderfully beautiful campus. For the seventh consecutive year the University and coach Jay DeMayo hosted the Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar. The target group…
It seems that every month or so there is an article, commentary, or an event that gains traction on the “bigger” news outlets and sends shockwaves through world of strength and conditioning. There was “The Killing Season” a few weeks back, and last fall the comments made about Chris Doyle at Iowa not being “worth…
Seven or so weeks ago I started this talking about how this was all driven off of a discussion I had with the head coach for a specific team. That we needed to make sure, as strength coaches, that we were using the same language as our head coach, and that we had the same…
In the initial meeting with the head coach of this team we are discussing, one of the things that she brought up was the issue the athlete’s have with their feet being outside of their base of support when trying to do specific skills. Now, we can discuss if that is a technique issue that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
