Athletic Lab Audio Inventory

Coach Matt Hunter explains the differences in training change of direction ability vs. Agility and how to start/progress training.

Coach John Evans picks Coach Mike Young's brain about how limb length matters in sprinting.

In episode 16 of the Sport Performance Podcast, Ivan talks with Dr. Shona Halson of the Australian Institute of Sport about Sleep quality, quantity, and other recovery methods for athletes. Here is the full list of the topics covered in this episode:

- Background, education, and experience
- Sleep quantity vs quality
- Best methods to assess sleep outside the lab
- Full vs partial sleep deprivation
- Nutrition influence on sleep quality and quantity
- Recovery strategies for athletes while traveling
- Water immersion
- Inter-individual variability
- External vs internal load monitoring
- Where to find Shona

Agility training is commonly mistaken simply as scripted cone drills and lateral changes in direction when, in fact, it's much more than that.

Coaches Mike Young, Matt Hunter, and Greg Gustin discuss the mistakes coaches are making and how to make sure your agility sessions are covering all aspects of agility.

The Vertimax is a popular, albeit very expensive tool used by many Strength and Conditioning Coaches. In this episode of Discussions in the Lab, we are talking about the facts and fallacies of Training. In Part 1, learn why you\u2019ll never see a Vertimax inside Athletic Lab and why our athletes still jump high and run fast.

Competing is important for both goal oriented and process oriented athletics and can be a fun and rewarding experience for fitness or CrossFit enthusiasts as well. If you enjoy doing the Olympic lifts in your training (Snatch and Clean and Jerk) then you should be competing in the sport of Weightlifting!

John did a quick interview with Chinese Women\u2019s Volleyball strength coach Rett Larson on preparing them for the Rio Olympics and ultimately winning Gold.

Unstable Surface Training is often mistaken for functional, or even sport specific training. Yet almost all sports are played on a solid, stable surface. So what is the value in this type of training and is there ever a place for it? Greg, John, and Matt have the answer in this final part of our Discussions in the Lab Episode 10

Velocity Based Training: SPP Episode #15 with Dr. Bryan Mann

Dr. Paul Comfort is the president of UKSCA and professor at University of Salford - Manchester, UK

In this episode:

- Background, experience and education
- Isometrics (testing and training application)
- Dynamic Strength Index (DSI)
- Scaling ratio methods while assessing and comparing athletes
- Weightlifting movements in sports
- \u201cOptimal load\u201c for peak power production
- Periodisation of pulling derivates
- Information about Paul's \u201cAdvanced Strength and Conditioning\u201c book
- Where can people find and get in touch with Paul

Part 1 of our 3 part "Mythbusters" style Discussions in the Lab looks at how Speed Ladders (or agility Ladders) are being used Incorrectly and how to use them the RIGHT way.

In this episode, Matt discusses some of the more atypical athletes he is currently training. A Dog Agility Racing athlete and two BMX athletes are not your usual basketball, football, soccer, or even CrossFit athlete....but does that really change how you train them? Matt takes you through how he gathers information relevant to assessing and training these athletes and offers advice to coaches who may be hesitant to train an athlete that participates in a sport they are unfamiliar with.

In this episode Mike, Drake, and Greg are back talking about CrossFit, this time having a little fun. They were challenged with a 15-minute "EMOM" (Every Minute on the Minute) of questions. 5 Questions, each getting a minute to answer.

In this episode....

1. Background
2. Publishing papers on Cluster training
3. What is the mechanism by which Cluster Training overcomes fatigue?
4. A case for traditional training methods for hypertrophy
5. Standardizing the language in Cluster training publications
6. Can you differentiate and describe protocols that have been used as a cluster in scientific community?
7. Which protocol do you recommend?
8. Acute effects on strength, power, and hypertrophy using clusters? Data on chronic effects?
9. What is the most appropriate time of training year to use clusters?
10. Time efficiency and other possible drawbacks of cluster sets
11. Reporting variables of training such as average and peak power and velocities
12. Would you totally abolish traditional structures?
13. Future research on clusters
14. How to connect with James Tufano

Bob Alejo is a 35-year strength and conditioning and administrative veteran at the collegiate, professional, and Olympic levels. Currently the Director of Sports Science for Power Lift, Coach Alejo has directed strength and conditioning collegiately at CSU Chico, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and North Carolina State University (Assistant AD). Professionally, he served 12 years as the Director of the Oakland A’s (during the “Moneyball” era) and twice as a member of the U.S. Olympic team: Beijing in 2008 with a gold medal in Men’s Beach Volleyball, and London in 2012 (simplifaster.com)

Photo courtesy of Anna Hiatt (annahiatt.com)

John, Drake, and Greg talk about common weaknesses seen in beginners and how to address them, followed by weaknesses and challenges in more advanced populations. Finally, the coaches talk about where in training it is appropriate to work on correcting weaknesses.

Bob Alejo recently stopped by for a guest lecture with our interns and staff. Bob spoke about his philosophy on Power Cleans and whether or not it is necessary to catch a clean or just utilize pulling variations. Very interesting topic and somewhat of a hot debate for many coaches in the industry.

Mike, Drake, and Greg discuss how we program our Performance Fitness (CrossFit) program from the general population pursuing a healthy lifestyle to the athlete looking to compete in the sport of CrossFit.

Drake Webster, Matt Hunter, and Mike Young talk about how to still get quality training done when your athlete has an injury.

John Evans talks about quanitifying the intensity of plyometrics

Coach Matt Hunter discusses why a Sprinter would put an importance on Pull-Ups in his/her training.

So you've administered the YoYo test to your athlete and got a score, but how do you use that score to program your training? Coach Greg recently took to anchor to touch on a few key things to think about so you're not just testing the YoYo for no reason.

Episode 2 of "Discussions in the Lab" is up on YouTube NOW. Matt Hunter, Greg Gustin, and John Evans talk about how to prioritize your training when time with your athlete(s) is limited.

In this first episode of "Discussions in the Lab", Mike Young, Greg Gustin, and John Evans discuss a track athlete that is a stud in training but can't replicate those performances when it really counts, in competition. Find out why this may be the case and how to begin to fix it.

Episode 11 features James Baker. James is a Physical Education teacher and Strength Coach for St. Peter's High School in Gloucester, UK. At St. Peter's James developed the Elite Performance Pathway (EPP), a system focusing on the development of youth athletes in the school system and developing strength, speed, power, and agility from the ground up. James also owns Proformance, a performance company focusing on sport training and high level educational content for sport scientists and coaches.

Dan is the Head Jumps and Multi-Event Coach at Altis in Phoenix, Arizona. Dan has coached multiple Olympic medalists including 100m Olympic champion and world record holder Donovan Bailey, with his most recent medalist coming in 2012 with long jumper Greg Rutherford. Dan has also coached at famed collegiate programs including LSU, University of Texas, and the University of Florida.

Part 2 of a two-part series on all things sprinting with Mike Young. Part 2 discusses ways to apply the current research on sprinting on the track and in the weight room. Discussions include general guidelines on sprint volume and rest, how to autoregulate the sprint session based on speed decrement, the importance of max strength and elastic qualities, why we need the ability to produce both concentric and eccentric forces and how to train those qualities, and ways to reduce overuse injuries

Dan Baker is a strength and power coach, researcher, and educator. Dan has a PhD in sport science specializing in velocity based training, and strength and power training. Dan was the strength coach for the Brisbane Broncos for nearly 20 years and won league titles in 1997, 1998, 2000, and 2006. Dan also serves as the president of the Australian Strength and Conditioning Association. This podcast will discuss many aspects of velocity based training protocols and his experiences with the technology over the course 20 plus years.

Keith Scruggs is a PhD student and Performance Coach at the University of South Carolina. Keith earned his Master's from East Tennessee State University working under Dr. Mike and Dr. Meg Stone. Keith has also served as a Performance Coach at the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center working with the Bobsled and Skeleton athletes.

Ryan Horn is Director of Performance for the Wake Forest University Men's Basketball Team. He's in his third year with the team and spent previous years coaching at Tulsa, VCU, Robert Morris, and Liberty University.

This episode covers challenges as collegiate strength coach, managing fatigue at home and on the road as well as managing detraining throughout the year. We discuss aspects of his return to play and return to performance continuum and lastly if and how to implement plyometrics for basketball players.

Mladen Jovanovic is a Performance Coach and Sport Scientist for Port Adelaide FC of the AFL. Previously Mladen has worked with soccer, volleyball, tennis, and basketball. In this episode we will cover team strategies and cultures with regards to soccer and the AFL, Agile Periodization methods compared to other, traditional, methods, and big-picture thinking. Lastly, we'll cover the team sport setting and how injuries and fatigue effect planning and training and some approaches to readjusting training.