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This is why athletes of all sports, levels & ages hire @woodfordssc 👊💪 We are athlete centred ✔️ RESULTS driven ✔️ @coachmaxcons is head of sport science @ @woodfordssc & our online coach with our athletes & does a fantastic job ⭐️ Find out why so many athletes hire us for performance, injury reduction & rehab - return to perform 🔥 #changingthegame

I had an interesting conversation with a coach who was watching my master class. He wondered if velocity-based training is also useful for the recreational athlete. The article below summarizes this well: "Velocity-based resistance training might be more effective than percentage-based training in maximal strength improvement, in which velocity-based resistance training is more suitable for athletes in season, while percentage-based training is more suitable for the general sports population." Also interested in my masterclass about VBT? Check https://lnkd.in/eep75Yr8 #velocitybasedtraining #strengthtraining #peakvelocity #maximalstrength

Want to start using ASEA to enhance your athletic performance? Kr. Kaufman addresses the benefits here https://lnkd.in/dJcm_eR6

My simplified, overarching athlete development philosophy: 1 - Increase the amount of force an athlete is capable of producing (squat, hinge, lunge, push, pull). 2 - Improve the athlete’s ability to produce said force quickly (sprints, jumps, med ball throws and/or oly lifts). I’ve got them listed as 1, 2, but these things are done concurrently. #strengthandconditioning #strengthandconditioningcoach

When working with athletes, and many pieces of the puzzle in athlete development being involved, this can become a difficult area to manage. However it is important, if all involved with the development of the athlete and team can have the same unified focus, this becomes increasingly simple to navigate. The best way to go about this is to have a unified approach of keeping athletes injury free. If we, as strength and conditioning coaches, sport scientists, rehabilitation professionals, and sport coaches, can all have a unified approach of keeping all the athletes injury free as our main priority, this will lead to more time of play for the athlete and less time missed due to injury. Yes injury is never fully avoidable, and yes the result of competition should be important in sport, however the main focus needs to always be on the athlete and always be on keeping that athlete injury free.

My simplified, overarching athlete development philosophy: 1 - Increase the amount of force an athlete is capable of producing (squat, hinge, lunge, push, pull). 2 - Improve the athlete’s ability to produce said force quickly (sprints, jumps, med ball throws and/or oly lifts). I’ve got them listed as 1, 2, but these things are done concurrently. #strengthandconditioning #strengthandconditioningcoach

🔍 Solving the REAL problems leads to REAL progress, Professor Dave Collins reminds us. 🏅Develop FASTER players, with a team who have coached athletes to 56 Olympic Medals in Speed Sports. ➡️ https://loom.ly/qD5f6rE

Here’s a contrast pairing that some of our more advanced athletes are doing, as part of our Athlete Development Program, to develop power and elasticity: • A1 - Trap bar jumps (non-CMJ) • A2 - Depth jump into continuous hurdle jumps Do any other S&C coaches use the same, or similar exercise pairings? #strengthandconditioning #strengthandconditioningcoach

Do you use force plates for athlete monitoring? Have you looked at Reactive Strength Index (modified) as a KPI for athlete readiness? Than blog is for you! I analyzed over 4700 jumps from D1 men's college basketball and found these trends... #forceplate #sportsperformance #highperformance #strengthandconditioning #sportscience #athletictraining https://lnkd.in/g6xK_Fyv

Check out my latest blog on using mRSI from countermovement jump to assess athlete readiness.