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Overview of Exercise Classification and Implementation into Athletic Training
By Domen Bremec on 21/06/2022Here is a presentation I have made on an important issue that is relevant to both novice and more experienced coaches and practitioners in the sports science and training world.
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Heart Rate Variability: Physiology and Applications
By Marco Altini on 22/04/2022Understanding athlete's recovery needs are key to ensuring that the training stimulus is properly planned and assimilated. Given the unique characteristics of each individual, the ability to potentially measure an athlete’s response to training can be key to tailoring training to their characteristics.
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To Sprint or Not to Sprint in Soccer: That’s the Question!
By Efthymios Kyprianou on 04/12/2021In this presentation, Efthymios is demonstrating the importance of Max Sprinting Speed (MSS) in soccer; how to measure it, how to periodize it, and how we can train it.
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Applying Agile and Robust Planning Strategies to Speed Development in Team and Field Sports
By Nathan Kiely on 18/10/2021Field sports are punctuated by high-intensity efforts - the moments that matter most, happen at speed - therefore, S&C coaches should be highly concerned with speed development. To find out more, check out this article by Nathan Kiely.
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Systemizing and Planning the Warm-Up
By Scott Kuehn on 14/09/2021You spend a lot of time warming your athletes up, rather than just tick a box on making them sweaty. Learn how Scott Kuehn systemizes and progresses his warm-ups to address a variety of athletic qualities and competencies.
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Conceptualizing Philosophy in Strength & Conditioning: The Barbell Strategy and Risk
By Adriano Arguedas Soley on 14/02/2021In this article, Adriano outlines Taleb’s Barbell Strategy for Risk in Financial Investment and details how high-performance sport programs may benefit from categorizing the risk potential of individual training elements to safeguard sustainability and promote aggressive growth.
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Fight Camp Planning – a Big Picture Approach
By Lukas Pezenka on 21/12/2020There are different camps when it comes to the best periodization model. Some coaches prefer block periodization, others have achieved great success with linear models. In this article, Lukas Pezenka outlines a narrative-based framework that he used with one of his MMA athletes at the Austrian 2020 nationals.
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Narrative Approach to Training
By William Wayland on 19/11/2020The training process is often compressed into talk of physiology, stress, biomechanics, and science. These technically are framing devices for one thing, ‘change.’ With any training cycle, technically being about manifesting favorable change in an athlete. Athletes, often do not think like this. They think in the narrative that plants them as the hero of their own story.
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My View on Olympic Weightlifting for Athletic Development in Team Sports
By Yoeri Pegel on 04/11/2020Part of the beauty of the Olympic lifts is that they allow the athletes to get ballistic intent in, without actually becoming projectiles themselves. Read more on the subject in the following article.
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The Integrative Approach to Strength and Conditioning
By Adriano Arguedas Soley on 21/07/2020On reading both early and contemporary research, books and case observations, as well as when attending conference presentations, lectures and consultancies, one is amazed by the diversity of models, theories, philosophies, rationales and approaches to address similar problems.