“Presence, Get it done, Stats.” –Bob Alejo Chapter 2, the shortest chapter of The Manual Vol.2 (CVASP, 2017), was written by Bob Alejo (Director of Sport Science- Power Lift). There isn’t any filler or useless information in this chapter and the message smacks you in the face from the get go. I appreciated this chapter…
“We can know everything about an athlete’s body, yet we have no idea what’s going on inside their heads. Your athlete needs to know that you care and that you are available.” – Coach Daniel Noble There has certainly been a lot of buzz surrounding this book, and after reading Conscious Coaching I can see…
“If more time was spent on improving skill execution of the athletes that they have, especially in the off-season, they would save considerable amounts of money and time.” –Dr. Michael Yessis The Manual Vol.2 (CVASP, 2017), made its illustrious debut at this year’s CVASP Seminar; and starts off with a chapter from Dr. Michael Yessis….
“It is a requisite to first develop general strength and only afterward- specialize.” -A. P. Bondarchuk With a title such as this you can expect some serious stuff to be laid out within its content, and I was not disappointed. The Olympian Manual is suited for coaches or athletes in the speed strength realm, which…
“The day our knowledge of the cosmos ceases to expand, we risk regressing to the childish view that the universe figuratively and literally revolves around us.” -N. D. Tyson Have you ever looked at the night time sky and wondered what is out there or what is it that you are actually seeing? Astrophysics for…
If innate body type differences that are hidden from our naked eyes, like fiber type proportions, are not accounted for, some athletes are sacrificed to the idea that the same hard training works for everyone.” –D. Epstein This is one of my favorite books, and one of the easiest to read. What I like most…
“Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with trees up close but from outside, from the empty meadow, you see its true limits.” –C. Whitehead The Underground Railroad, even though it was fiction, was hard to read. Slavery in this country is a polarizing issue,…
“The key to improved sport performance is producing more force in less time.” – C. Dietz and B. Peterson As a strength coach; I am sure you have come across or heard about this book one way or another. Triphasic Training was a book I had wanted to read for a while and I am…
