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“For instance, in lifting a weight in any movement, the athlete usually rotates or tilts slightly to one side and the bar fails to travel parallel to the frontal, sagittal or transverse plane. This natural asymmetry must be taken into account when the coach is analysing technique. In doing so, it is necessary to observe and record the trajectory of the bar from both ides of the body and only then compare it with the ideal trajectory for that movement.”
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There is no substitute for “Specific Physical Preparation”. This is practicing the specific skills and demands of your sport. In order to be proficient in your sport you must practice it religiously. Specificity in training addresses limiting factors and will be a primary player in enhancing overall performance provided the athlete is practicing their sport congruent to their training in the weightroom. We’ve established each athlete needs a solid strength foundation built and understanding of posture and position no matter what the sport is. Once that has been addressed, more specific limiting factors must be addressed through specificity in your programming. Siff laid out 10 respective traits to be addressed through specificity: Type of muscle contraction, movement pattern, region of movement, velocity of movement, force of contraction, muscle fibre recruitment, metabolism, biochemical adaptation, flexibility, and fatigue. It is important to know the demands of the sport we are training an athlete for in order to have an eye for their limiting factors while working with them in the weightroom. Also, I am a big believer in ACTUALLY GETTING OUT TO SEE YOUR FUCKING ATHLETES PLAY THEIR SPORT! Sorry I am a little passionate about this, I think if you are working with an athlete it is your duty to go see them compete in there respective arena so you can see their approach to the game and their limiting factors. After addressing these things we can address limiting factors through specific movements in the weightroom.
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Holy shit @carlcase I was going to bring this exact passage up as well. We have more of a connection than just our love for shoes. I am sure @menacedolan can give us very good insight here but let me give my two cents. Think about a pitcher in baseball or an outside hitter in volleyball, they are going to have a pretty big asymmetry due to the use of one side over the other. This is something that is a need for the performance of their sport and attempts to fix this could actually have a negative impact on their performance. Now a question I have comes from the following paragraph, talking about natural asymmetries in bar position of lifting. For example, when I back squat I have a slight tilt of the bar and it gets slightly more pronounced the heavier it gets. How important is it to fix this tilt and is it causing damage?
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https://footballbeyondthestats.wordpress.com/2016/02/06/the-current-state-of-movement-mastery-in-the-nfl/ here is the article I mentioned at the end of class
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I feel like I can’t really disagree with any of these so far. I’ll try to spark some discussion though. @tonyfu you and myself said something interesting that we both could discuss further. We said given all other things equal the stronger athlete will come out on top. I suppose we could say that about any components, given all things equal (which in this case includes strength) the athlete with more speed would win, or agility, or insert arbitrary performance measure here. So I guess what we are saying is a “duh” statement. I am not changing my definition because what I am about to say still fits within it. We all find our own style of play and we need to enhance our abilities through training (lifting weights) to reach our full potential. An example of what I am talking about would be Mayweather vs. Alvarez a couple years ago. Alvarez tried to rely on his far superior “strength” and punching power, however, he couldn’t touch Mayweather while he danced and tagged him with jabs all night. Mayweather’s superior speed, skill, agility, etc…made him a far better boxer. My point in all of this is we don’t just lift weights to improve strength, we do it to improve all things related to our performance goals. I know we know this but I wanted to clarify.
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@benkuch I like it. I am trying to pick what you said apart but I feel we are saying the same thing in two different ways. Considering we are talking about athletes, when you say performance I can only assume that means the performance transfer to their sport and not just an increase in performance in the weight room unless lifting weights is their sport. And since you want the performance to positively increase this would by default make an athlete more “successful” (the term I used in my definition) at their sport. So ipso facto we essentially have the same answer to this question. Unless you see otherwise, then I am all ears (and I have large ears).
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@mcquilkin I am assuming you meant “Lever” class and not “Level”, correct?
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Why do athletes lift weights? My answer is as follows: To be able to successfully accomplish the challenges our sport demands of us.
Let’s break that down.
To successfully accomplish, the opposite would be if you fail the task at hand. After assessment was this failure a result of your training? Were you strong enough, fast enough, explosive enough, or did you train at all? Assess your failures and address them in the weight room, if it was a failure of skill you need to ask if your physical preparedness affected your skill execution and what can be done to address such break downs.
Challenges. This is whatever physical requirements are involved in our sport. In basketball can you be explosive with your first step, can you jump high enough to rebound, can you hold your ground and not let your man back you down? These are all things that can be trained and reinforced by lifting weights.
What are some direct benefits lifting weights can provide to an athlete and why should they lift?
A very simple study example provided by Zatsiorsky on page 21 highlights why strength training is important, and I believe an equally simple study could be preformed with athletes in any sport. To paraphrase, a swim coach wanted to find validity in dryland strength training for her athletes. After finding the that the maximal force an athlete could produce correlated significantly to swimming velocity, her assumption that it would be worthwhile spending time and effort to enhance this maximal force production through training. (Zatsiorsky, V. 1995.)
Hatfield states, “since strength determines the extent of force you are able to apply, and leverage determines the effectiveness of your application of force, it is important for you to become as strong as possible.” Let’s say two wrestlers of the same anatomical dimensions are going at it and ALL skill, understanding of leverage mechanics, equipment are totally the same. Who is going to win? Simply put the stronger athlete, which is developed by lifting weights. We lift weights to win!
Siff’s “Two Factor Model of Training” states the long-term fitness after-effect and short term fatigue after-effect interact to produce physical preparedness. (p.88) An athlete must have a level of physical preparedness to even play a sport. With a high combination of sport skill and physical preparedness (which can directly relate to enhancing sport skill) the athlete will undoubtedly be better at there sport.
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@menacedolan exactly why I did that for our noobs. Also, had my intern count my “oks” in class today. 1 “ok” in a 1-hour class lol.
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My gaawwwd, I said it 58 times in 6:30 min. That’s embarrasing, gonna have to not think about the assignment so much and just coach in a natural state.
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@conorwlynch I almost stted that exact same thing. After I watched my video I can’t belive how many times I said “OK”. I have seen video and recorded myself coaching before and never heard it that much. Good call though!
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@conorwlynch I like your style bro….except those shorts are too short I see your knee caps!
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One caveat, I hope you can trust the writing on the board was not intended as a “cheat sheet” for me to instruct. This is the 3rd day of a brand new group of “on-rampers” to our gym. I wanted them to see the bullet points and write them in the notebooks we provide to them after their class.
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@menacedolan I will say a caveat to that is a skill coach. I some times double as a skill coach with my basketball guys and not only their s&c coach. If you consider a skill coach to be a sport coach even if they aren’t the coach of the team then we are on the same page.
