From the Ground Up Athletic Performance Podcast Jason Feairheller Episode 46 " Developing multidirectional speed and power, Force and quality contacts, Importance of SL training, Specificity in the weight room for Variable stimulus"
On this episode, I sat down with Jason Feairheller to discuss how to develop dynamic movers and how to properly integrate agilities into training. Jason shares how agilities and Change of Direction training differ and how one involves a cognitive component. In order to have a well developed profile of movement options and stability in movement both need to be present in programming. Jason shares something that really informs his program selection and overall progress, his main consideration is how he can help athletes as much as possible in their competitive stages. Training all patterns of movement will allow for individuals to have a more robust profile of movement to pull from when required. Jason shares the common patterns we will see in mostly every sport, lateral shuffle, plyo step, hip retraction, etc.
It's easy to get hung up and specialize on one thing especially when you examine athletes deficiencies in light of certain movement constraints. Jason shares when you observe in adequate forms of movement doing more agilities isn't simply the answer, you have to think about what is the missing link stopping athletes from reaching their highest level of skill? Jason shares how he preaches towards a model while also building dynamic movers through constraint led approaches and self organization. Another major focus of our discussion focused on how individuals are able to interact with the ground, force and how individuals manipulate force flowed throughout the conversation. Jason shares that he considers Single leg plyometric means to be extremely important as all changes of directions in sporting movements will occur off of a single leg. I also like how Jason shared that all agilities are able to inform his exercise selection for athletes.
We discuss the development of habits and skills, habits are a position of stability (attractors) the more we dig the well of habit the more we find ourselves sinking into them and they may be harder to get out of. Jason shares how he does little work that is completely rehearsed skills work can be layered at varying degrees of perception and also the required skill of a movement can be layered over time. Jason shares his considerations for programming plyometrics and he discusses how he builds his workouts through the progression of a certain skill such as max V, Power, Accel, etc. these themes inform many different aspects of programming choices for a given session. We end out conversation by talking about his considerations for the weight room, he shares that he utilizes Olympic weightlifting means in many of his settings. We discuss how one can blend specificity in their programming choices and the rationale for doing so, Jason shares how many of the methods featured in many of Frans Bosch's work can be useful for variability and coordinative exploration.