A lack of speed is one of the most common limiting factors holding back athletes in all sports.
As a result, speed training is one of the most essential elements of a
training program, but still one of the most poorly understood,
particularly in hockey.
Identifying the athlete’s limiting factor to speed development is important.
Exercise selection is important.
Programming appropriate rest is important.
Integrating all of these factors, among others, is essential to optimizing speed development and transfer from off-ice training to on-ice speed. We dive into all of this in the podcast!
If you want to learn more about how to use assessments to identify limiting factors in your athletes’ performance, check out our new Optimizing Adaptation & Performance video series, which is available at a huge discount until Friday!
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Hear from NHL S&C Coach Mike Potenza
Mike Potenza, who is in his 14th year as
Director of S&C for the San Jose Sharks, recently did an interview
for Robbie Bourke’s ‘All Things Strength & Wellness’ podcast.
Optimizing Adaptation & Performance, the new health and sport performance video series I did with Mike Potenza and Jim LaValle features over 7.5 hours of content tying together the most effective strategies in assessments, program design, sports science, and nutrition/supplementation.
Until this Friday (11/1) at midnight EST, you can save $50 off your access to the entire Optimizing Adaptation & Performance package!
Optimizing Adaptation & Performance features over 7.5 hours of video and PDFs from all of the presentations from a a seminar I did last Summer with James LaValle and Mike Potenza at Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning.
There’s more health and performance information available now than ever before, and it’s become increasingly difficult to sift through all of the marketing hype to find the most effective solutions.
When Mike, James and I originally talked about putting this seminar together, our goal was simple – share our most effective research- and experience-supported solutions to help optimize an athletes health, training adaptation, and game-day performance.
With that in mind, the presentations cover a wide array of topics, including:
In-season program
design
Multi-stage
reconditioning of injured athletes
Workload
monitoring and developing effective reports for coaches
The most
effective recovery strategies for different types of training/sport stress
Using
testing as a diagnostic process to design more effective programs
Hormonal
implications of overtraining/under recovery
Training, nutrition,
and supplementation strategies to optimize mitochondrial development, and
muscular hypertrophy/strength
How health
of the gut, brain, and immune system influence each other, and nutrition and
supplementation strategies to optimize all three
Proven Strategies for Better Results
On a personal note, I’m really excited to share this information for a couple reasons.
First, this information is powerful– it can have a profound impact on the health, performance, consistency, and durability of athletes in every sport.
Mike, James and
I have worked in every setting – professional and collegiate sports, private
sports training facilities, general fitness clients, etc. – and there are
strategies shared in the OAP videos that can be applied in all of these environments.
Increase your “Range”
Second, I strongly believe in the importance of having a range of solutions for different problems.
Athletes and
training clients don’t always respond to the same strategies in the same way,
and between individual preferences and logistical constraints, if you only have
one tool – it’s likely you’ll run into situations where you can’t use it.
By spanning assessment,
sports science, recovery interventions, program design, and nutrition/supplementation,
OAP provides complimentary solutions to help facilitate the optimal response,
despite different situational constraints.
For example, athletes
at all levels suffer from depleted energy at some point throughout the season. This
can result from:
Insufficient
or inappropriate preparation
Detraining
throughout the season
Excessive
workload
Misguided
dietary strategy
Suboptimal
sleep
Inadequate
or poor use of recovery strategies
Depending on
the situation, some of these areas may be more realistic to improve than others,
so having a process to identify what is contributing to the athlete’s lack of
energy and solutions to address each limiting factor will allow you to always
make an impact.
Optimizing Adaptation & Performance discusses each of the above points in detail, and provides different strategies to address the same problem.
Save $50
The videos of each presentation, along with PDFs of the slides, are now available through a protected “member” section of the OAP website.
Until this Friday (11/1) at midnight EST, you can save $50 off your access to the entire Optimizing Adaptation & Performance package!
