I’m always amazed by the claims various boot camps, personal trainers, and companies make to emphatically advertise that their approach is the best to “lose weight”,” improve performance”, “get you six-pack abs”, etc….I’m sure you get the picture. They provide testimonials and images to support their claim and suggest that if you do their program you too will experience similar results. But here is the TRUTH! No program is superior to another program in all contexts. Careful consideration to the following factors will determine if a program will “optimally” work for each context / situation. Failure to appreciate these factors
Read more →Many strength and conditioning coaches and health care professionals spend a great deal of time focusing on exercise selection. According to many great heath care professionals, exercises are neither good nor bad, they depend on the context they are prescribed and execution. What are your thoughts?
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Athletic Development Rounds January 27 Itinerary Why do we care about understanding training methods? Overview of training variables that are manipulated by training methods. Are training methods more or less important than exercise selection? Overview and comparison of blocked vs. daily undulating periodization What does the study by Painter, Haff, Ramsey, McBride, Triplett, Sands, Lamont1, Stone, Stone tell us about Blocked vs. DUP training method? What are the flaws about this study? What are the implications of this study for you! Why do we care about understanding training methods? Better awareness of what is out there, which help
Read more →In our athletic development programs we work with a lot of highly skilled athletes and just as many uncoordinated youth, hoping to one day become highly skilled athletes. No matter what level they are at, they are constantly being introduced to new movements, drills, and exercises that we feel will help them get better at their given sport. When teaching an athlete to perform a given task, there are a lot of different factors that go into the success you’ll have in getting the desired result. A Deeper Understanding of the Activity One of the best things you can
Read more →ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENT ROUNDS AT FITS Athletic Development Rounds at FITS are a weekly meeting by our staff and interns to discuss items regarding athletic development – training, strength, conditioning, vertical jump, integration into sport, injury prevention etc. (the list is really endless). We’re going to share what we discuss on our blog. So here it is I hope you enjoy. Please feel free to make any comments below. We always welcome discussion. Theme: Monitoring for what – performance, injury prevention, training status? Between power and ground contact time, which variable is more important to monitor and why? What
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