“Early on the general exercises are going to have more transfer. Later on we have to become more specific, BUT, that doesn’t mean, again,that the general exercises aren’t still useful.” 2017 Seminar Presenter and Michigan Tech’s Head Strength and Conditioning Coach Matt Thome joins us to discuss the idea of specificity. Having learned directly from Dr….
All too often athelte’s have issues or doubts with what is going on in training. Today, Lousiville Cardinals Assistant Strength Coach Chris Hays shares with how he handles this. Chris touches upon how it has helped with buy in, and building relationships. He talks about sharing the justification behind aspects of programming, training at different…
USA Swimming’s Keenan Robinson joins us for this week’s edition of My Thoughts Monday. Keenan shares a quote from Michael Brooks of Kings Aquatic Club, “if they’re broke at 12 they’ll be broke at 16” and breaks down his thoughts on this. He shares how he sees this connects to technique work in the weight…
In this edition of My Thoughts Monday Devan McConnell shares with us how his hockey guys handle things on game day. Devan shares with us some examples as to what training the guys do on game day and the reasoning behind it, both from the scientific/practical side along with how it fits in with the…
In this week’s edition of My Thoughts Monday, Jay DeMayo shares with us some recent experiences with career ending injury, and how he handled the situation. This is something that we need to talk about more as a profession, because if we are going to say that we are here for the athlete’s then we…
“We have to stop and think and be realistic with ourselves about how many times we are actually dealing with freaks who are both completely advanced trained and elite level athletes.” In today’s edition of My Thoughts Monday Dr. Bryan Mann discusses preparedness with us, and gives advices to coaches on how and when…
In our second edition of My Thoughts Monday, CVASP found and Richmond Basketball Strength Coach Jay DeMayo shares his thoughts on the importance of teaching athlete’s the technique in cutting jboth prior to moving to advanced exercises and in return to play protocols. Have something to contribute? We want to know! DropBox us your My…
In the first episode of My Thoughts Monday, Jay DeMayo from The University of Richmond shares his thoughts on the language we use as Strength Coaches and why it’s important that we use the same verbiage. Have something to contribute? We want to know! DropBox us your My Thoughts Monday to [email protected] and get your…
