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Science behind this?

How much of what you do in training is experience and how much is science? I am always trying to figure out why things work. I know some training methods work and produce results but I always want to know why it works. That does not mean I don’t do it until I find out why. If we waited for scientific validation especially peer-reviewed articles we would never get anything done. If we had listened to the scientists we…

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Added by Vern Gambetta on December 11, 2010 at 9:39am — 1 Comment

Injuries in Sport

It seems that when you read the sport page today it is a medical report rather than a report of game or match performance. It seems paradoxical that with all the advances in athletic development, sports medicine, and sport science that we are seeing the type of injuries, number of injuries and the severity of the injures that are occurring. Certainly it is a great concern to all involved. The human and economic cost are…

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Added by Vern Gambetta on December 10, 2010 at 6:07am — 3 Comments

What is Training?

Training is the application of a training stimulus and the body’s adaptive response to that stimulus. The response can be a positive or negative adaptive response. To do everything possible to insure a positive adaptive response use the Stimulus Threshold ™ concept. Rather than seeking a maximum load in training the goal is to find the optimum training load necessary to elicit an adaptive response. This load is very individual and is based on the individual’s ability to recover. The Stimulus… Continue

Added by Vern Gambetta on December 9, 2010 at 8:36am — No Comments

Merry Christmas and best wishes

Coaches, friends and colleagues,
I hope that everyone has enjoyed a great season / semester. Wishing all of you some quality family time during the break and good luck in your bowl game. I hope to see everyone in Dallas at the NSCA coaches conference.

Merry Christmas and best wishes to you all.

Jon

Added by Jon Jost on December 8, 2010 at 9:03am — No Comments

Closed versus Open Chain

The terms open and closed chain have gained popularity both in the coaching and the scientific literature. The conventional definitions of open chain as the distal segment of a limb free in space and closed chain as the distal segment fixed on the ground lead us to believe that each are discrete and separate events. In fact movement is ultimately the timing of the opening and closing of the chain. Gait is a great example of this. The stance leg is in contact (briefly!) with the ground,… Continue

Added by Vern Gambetta on December 8, 2010 at 8:58am — No Comments

NSCA Bulletin Version 32.12 (December 2010)

For those interested, the latest NSCA bulletin has been published: Version 32.12, concerning the month of December 2010. Among other topics, new in this bulletin you will find:
  • 2011 Coaches Conference preview
  • Education Recognition Program
  • An interview with Steve Ettinger
  • Recertification deadline information
  • And more....
To view and/or download the bulletin,…
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Added by David Harris on December 7, 2010 at 11:27pm — No Comments

THE SERAPE" EFFECT

A key concept to understand in regard to core function is the “Serape Effect.” This concept was articulated by Logan and McKinney in their book “Kinesiology” over fifty years ago. The serape is a Mexican garment that is draped loosely over the shoulders and is crossed in front of the body. The concept serves to reinforce the concept of the muscles of the core as a connector. They identified the serape muscles as the rhomboids, serratus anterior, external obliques and internal obliques. These… Continue

Added by Vern Gambetta on December 7, 2010 at 7:09am — No Comments

TRAINING THE ENERGY SYSTEMS

When the concept of training the energy systems was first articulated in the book “Interval Training” by Fox and Mathews circa 1974 this was major breakthrough in training. It was presented in such a manner that concepts and ideas that had been the exclusive domain of the scientist in the lab were articulated in terms and a context that coaches and practitioners could apply. Unfortunately as the concepts gained in popularity it seems we have deviated from some simple scientific… Continue

Added by Vern Gambetta on December 6, 2010 at 6:56am — No Comments

A Little Physiology

A Little Physiology



Mike Gittleson was the Director of Strength & Conditioning at the University of Michigan for 30 years and and was a part of 15 Football Championships in that time. He explains, that learning is a life long

process.



At the age of 53 I had to retake the course Molecular Biology of the Cell. One of my former students, and a doctoral candidate who… Continue

Added by Ralph Cornwell Jr on December 5, 2010 at 3:37pm — No Comments

Train Fast!

There is an excellent feature article in today’s New York Times magazine section on University of Oregon Football called Speed Freak Football by Michael Sokolove www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/magazine/05Football-t.html?ref=sports It got me thinking of training for and at “game speed” in a myriad of sports. In many ways it is quite simple - to play fast you have to train fast. Train for the game you play with an… Continue

Added by Vern Gambetta on December 5, 2010 at 7:30am — No Comments

A Coaching Philosophy

In 1969 in a Foundations of Coaching class at UCSB, the professor, Dr Art Gallon, constantly stressed to us the need for a coaching philosophy and it importance as a foundation for everything we would do as coaches. As look back to that course I realize that his sole objective was for us to leave that course with the foundations of our philosophy established. A coaching philosophy is the coaches guiding light. It is the cornerstone upon which everything else is built. Without a sound philosophy… Continue

Added by Vern Gambetta on December 4, 2010 at 8:44am — No Comments

Kevin McNair VHS Speed Tape

Years ago, in the 80's, a track coach named Kevin McNair did an excellent VHS tape on speed development. Unfortunately a Google search gave me the bad news that Coach McNair had passed away in 2008. I am looking for the VHS tape as I am trying to convert some of the great 80's stuff to digital format. Does anyone have one I could buy or borrow?

Added by Michael on December 3, 2010 at 1:34pm — No Comments

Plan Recovery!

Plan Recovery!!!
Inter workout – Built the training cycle with rest and active rest days included, plan them advance, be proactive, not reactive.
Intra workout – Design “active rest” training modules that are compatible with the main objective of the workout

Added by Vern Gambetta on December 3, 2010 at 7:48am — No Comments

Learning From the Past

You can learn from the past or you can live in the past. Certainly living in the past is not productive. For some reason today there seems to be an aversion to learning from the past. Too many young coaches today have no idea of the evolution and history of training. There is so little that is new in training, what people think is new is often some method that was used before that has been repackaged under a different name. (Kettlebells, indian clubs, and so called suspension training are three… Continue

Added by Vern Gambetta on December 2, 2010 at 8:55am — No Comments

Thoughts on Training Monitoring

I always try to decide on what I want to know, what is nice to know and what I absolutely need to know. It is import to understand that this can vary from sport to sport and a team or individual sport. What I can monitor is highly dependent on the resources I have available. Do I have the help to gather and interpret the data? The information I monitor must be meaningful – Can I use it to impact performance, adjust training or am I just gathering random numbers. What equipment do I need? How… Continue

Added by Vern Gambetta on December 1, 2010 at 7:51am — No Comments

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