Getting Stronger With Your Athletes

When you’ve coached for 20+ years, create content, and work to mentor young coaches, you tend to answer a lot of questions.

But one of the questions I’ve been asked the most recently is this:

What has changed about your programming in the past 2-3 years?

Or maybe along those same lines:

How have you continued to evolve your training and coaching in recent years?

So in today’s solo podcast, that’s exactly what we’re going to talk about – 6 things I’m focusing on in my programming and coaching right now!

Ask Yourself: Are they using strategies to compensate or work around previous injuries?

This week on the Physical Prep Podcast:

• Why my core philosophy or “Big Rocks” when it comes to programming and coaching have not (and probably will not) change.
• The role isometrics play in my programming, as well as the differences between overcoming and yielding ISO’s.
• Isolation work: Friend or foe? Should you be blowing up calves, quads and hamstrings if necessary?
• Why internal rotation is such a key measure, and how to unlock it with your clients and athletes.
• How a seminar with Lee Taft and Nick Winkelman in 2012 initiated my journey to becoming a better speed and movement coach.
• The role force development plays in a program, and why athletes shouldn’t just be focusing on maximal strength to enhance athletic performance.
• Why the foot is such a critical structure, and why I’m placing a bigger emphasis on barefoot and gait training in my programs.

Books and Links Referenced:

• Podcasts:
  • Dr. Keith Baar on Building Bulletproof Tendons
  • Lee Taft Physical Prep Podcasts
  • Bill Hartman Physical Prep Podcasts
• Tools and Gear:
  • Exerfly
  • Monkey Foot
  • SmartTools Blood Flow Restriction

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This week’s episode of the Physical Preparation Podcast is brought to you by Exerfly.

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Standard free weight training is great for the early preparatory phases, but as athletes develop there’s more to it than just getting stronger at all costs.

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