Cross Training and Running Athletes? Since late 2019 I have worked in Endurance Cycling in china. So this has added to my opinions re cross training with athletes. I used cross training extensively when I was in the AFL and since when managing running ath…lnkd.in/ev_6S996

Throwback to my AFL days as a high performance manager (1994-2007) , and then when managing Advanced Athletes Performance (2011-2017). I always mentored, developed, appointed staff to work evenly across all the spectrum of coaching (loosely let’s say fitn…lnkd.in/gXnNNr37

Throwback to my AFL days as a high performance manager (1994-2007) , and then when managing Advanced Athletes Performance (2011-2017). I always mentored, developed, appointed staff to work evenly across all the spectrum of coaching (loosely let’s say fitn…lnkd.in/gnR9Skf8

Would love to have listened to Adam Centofanti talk on his approach to fitness in soccer and the MLS. Adam has had a wealth of experience chasing his dreams as a player in Italy and Australia. Then working with different sports at Advanced Athletes Perfor…lnkd.in/gP9_hFZr

If you had asked me in early 2019 if I would have ever published in a Chinese Sports Science Journal, I would have said no chance. 😁. Well wrote this last year and got published this week. I have been with cycling in China since late 2019. I was fascinat…lnkd.in/gGVzVAhG

In 2021 after the Tokyo Olympics, the Shanghai Institute Sport asked me to write an article for a Chinese Journal on Team Pursuit Cycling. Before 2019 I could not clearly articulate what an Omnium or Madison race entailed nor knew…lnkd.in/e9XAsqBR lnkd.in/ePMvkN_t

Interesting that with many injuries stats not lower. Despite exponential increase knowledge. IMO often the "umma amma" approach to RTP & "let's see how it goes/ticks boxes" is a problem. Instead of after diagnosis/initial rehab sticking to plan & working back from planned RTP.

Jarrod Egan has a wealth of experience. He started with me in the AFL in 2000 at the Geelong Cats. Before that he had done a stint at AIS. He also was a very good track and field athlete. He then worked at the Kangaroos AFL as HPM. Followed by stints in c…lnkd.in/g-JWkWW6

I worked alongside Graham Turner PhD at the NTIS in 2017. Together with Tadek Rudz we published in the NSCA journal (Strength and Conditioning Coaching Practice and Positive Youth Athletic Development: Context-Specific Application of the Developmental Re…lnkd.in/gex9QQ3P

Champion Mentality🥇

Lauren Bertolacci. Head Coach Switzerland Women’s Volleyball at Euro Volley. She is only female head coach in tournament. 97 coaches (assistants etc) in tournament. Only 11 females. In national league NUC Volleyball has dominated the National league multiple titles for 4 years.

The amount of rest you prescribe in workouts, can hugely change the type of training stimulus received. Be deliberate with your choices. Examples below from sprint training recommendations.

Note 1500m runner Jye Edwards, 20cm airborne before one of >2000 multiple-bodywt plyometric footstrike forces through the Achilles in a track session. It's worth considering the risk/benefit ratio before adding plyometic stress to the Achilles in a middle-distance gym program.

A Trump supporter was seated next to an older woman on an airplane and he turned to her and said, “Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.” The old woman, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total

The (relative) importance of training volume and intensity: why there are no shortcuts in endurance sports? A short thread 🧵 👇

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There are few advantages to aging beyond your 20s, from a physiological POV. But if we live long enough, we CAN learn from our youthful overexuberance. I think the biggest mistakes high achievers make is undervaluing and under-exploiting the power of REST. It happens across 4

Rush posts dosing speed MD-2. Thought adaptation to eccentric exercise > 36 hours? Priming I get. And get the link between RBE and adaptation to eccentric exercise. Interesting how this review says “significant gap” w eccentric exercise adaptations. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC65…

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MAS is an intensity measure for conditioning prescription. It is not a HIIT session Nathan Heaney sportsmith.co/articles/maxim… via Sportsmith