James LaValle, Mike Potenza and I sought to create a learning environment that we simply didn’t see anywhere else in the industry.
We wanted to show practitioners how different components of a comprehensive health and performance plan can be integrated to deliver optimal results.
Program design and delivery, sports science, and nutrition/supplementation shouldn’t live in their own silos. They should be orchestrated together to identify the athletes’ primary limiting factor to success and to help find the best possible solution.
A more diverse knowledge base and skill set allows you to help more people, and deliver better results, faster.
We continue to receive outstanding feedback from professionals working in both private and team settings, and I know you’ll benefit from the content as well.
In fact, we’re so confident you’ll be blown away by the value of the information that we’re offering a 60-day “no questions asked” 100% money back guarantee!
Simply – you can access all of the videos and accompanying presentation slides for a full 60-days, and if you don’t feel like the information is making a significant impact on your programming and overall performance strategies, email me and I’ll immediately process a full refund.
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3 Keys for a Successful Return from Injury (NHL Reconditioning Model)
Mike Potenza (San Jose Sharks) recently shared an article on 3 powerful strategies he’s used to successfully return his players from injury.
Unfortunately, it’s still extremely common for athletes to be told to rest for several weeks until the injury “heals”, and then receive a green light to fully return to sport.
While time may allow for the injury to heal, the inactivity associated with rest will cause the athlete to significantly detrain.
Just as we wouldn’t recommend that an athlete sits on the couch all
off-season and then transitions into competition, the recommendation of
simply resting sets the athlete up for failure.
Simply, the athlete returns slower, weaker, and with less endurance.
The methods and progressions Mike outlines have been key to his success in helping his athletes, not just return to sport, but return to the same level of elite performance they achieved prior to the injury.
The goal is never to just have the athlete in the line-up; the goal is to have the athlete prepared to make an impact.
And while Mike has spent the last 14 years working in the NHL, the
methods he discusses apply to athletes in all sports, including
“tactical” athletes.
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.
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The Myth of In-Season Maintenance
Today I’m excited to share another guest article from Mike Potenza, which he wrote for Mike Robertson’s site this week.
How athletes address their in-season training can have a profound impact on their speed, power, strength, and overall energy throughout the season.
This is particularly important as a failed in-season plan will lead to maximal detraining late in the season, when athletes are expected to perform at their best.
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.
Mike dedicated an entire presentation to diving into his in-season training model, benchmarking strategies, and practical examples!
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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.
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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.
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