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Monday at 1230 please
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For the first 10 years of my career I was only an observer of the S&C world, fighting hard to keep them out of my scope of practice and well within their own. I was responsible for the rehabilitation of athletic injuries and was only focused on the injury at hand. I include the coaches in the athletes activity, limitations, and hope there were no other issues. As I evolved as an athletic trainer, I realized that the time off of participation was an opportunity to utilize decreased participation demands and a window to develop overall strength and conditioning. An opportunity to work together with another coach and have another set of eyes with a different skill set to help. It also revealed to me that I could be doing more myself. I took this as a chance to expand my knowledge base and improve my education, tool kit, and marketability. Not only that, the most important was the best care for my athletes. I wanted them to be better than they were before injury.
Too many coaches are just OK with doing what they think is best, not what is best for the athlete. Instead of keeping their eyes wide open to all of the information out there, doing the research, trying and failing and making an extensive database of what not to do, they just keep going through the motions of what they know. Not looking for what is best for their athletes. When you start putting those you care for/train/work with first, you strive to give what is best. It goes back to the Jesuit HS education I got to be a “man for others”. Too many coaches are self centered and close minded.
I also think that coaches and ATC’s get into the pattern of only looking for areas of continuing education that already fall in line with what they already know and believe in. Instead of taking the opportunity to think outside the box, they stay comfortable with what they know. They are afraid to shake the foundation, because there is the possibility that they were wrong. Everyone fails and is wrong, take the time to apologize and learn.
A huge barrier is the abundance of people that the athletes have influencing them. The sport coach, the weights coach (sometimes the same person), position coaches, parents, club coaches, personal trainers, etc. Too many cooks in the kitchen!!! Parents think that more is better, instead of better is better. The ever evolving quest for the special sauce. To the coach, its their job to have a successful team, to the club coaches outside of the school the same rings true, but the club coaches and the personal trainers are also looking at business and income, and the parents are all over the map with what they subject their athletes to. In these situations, rarely is it looked at as an opportunity to collaborate with other professionals, but instead its a turf war of what the other entities are taking away from each other. I made it a mission to get on the club coaches and personal trainer’s radar, so go introduce yourself and let them know your credentials and philosophy ASAP. While you might not see eye to eye, allow your knowledge and openness to drive the experience into a positive relationship. Tour their gym, have them to yours, build a relationship of open communication and check the feelings at the door.
That is the final barrier to discuss. Feelings. Too many times feelings are hurt and minds and ears shut down. It is ok to disagree, it is not a personal attack. It is a difference in knowledge base, philosophies, and sometimes personal opinion. All of these are not your problem, the athlete is. Even when things are dangerous and potentially catastrophic, do what you can to help the athlete, and keep your feelings out of it. Battle the bullshit with knowledge and experience. Be diligent and relentless with your approach. Realize the difference between being emotional and passionate. The relationships with the athletes and other professionals will be stronger because of it. If the others choose to not be receptive to what you teach/coach/believe, fuck em. Stay in your lane and keep striving to be the best. People will notice and get on board.
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Volume and intensity are the two ever changing variables when developing an athlete’s base level of strength. Through the PA Amateur Program, volume and intensity are linearly increased from workout to workout. The PA AP is developed using the SAID principle, and the adaptations are building a bigger, stronger and more powerful athlete. “The variability of training programs during micro-and mesocycles is realized through changes in training load (not exercise complexes). One stable complex of exercises should be performed through a mesocycle to elicit an adaptation,” (Zatsiorsky. p.108). Siff elaborates, “in programming training, it is important to determine the optimal duration of loading of any primary emphasis, as well as a suitable rate of increase of the relevant performance indicators,” (Siff. p355). By linearly progressing the weights both volume and intensity are utilized. “Volume on its own does not determine the specificity of the training influence of the loading on the body and the characteristics of the body’s adaptive reactions…when programming training the influence of the volume can be determined correctly only if one also takes into consideration the magnitude of the loading, its duration and intensity,” (Siff. p.356). Volume will translate into overall work capacity, whereas “intensity of the loading determines the strength and specificity of its effect on the body or the difficulty of the training. The intensity regulates the traing potential of the given means, the frequency of their use and the intervals between repeated means or training sessions with large training potential, as well as the ratio of the volume of the loading divided by the time taken to reach the maximum loads in a given stage,” (Siff. p.357). Different stages in the PA AP will come when the athlete has to reset their lifts or at the end of training cycles where weights are lowered. “During periods of strenuous training, athletes cannot achieve the best performance results. They need an interval of relatively easy exercise to realize the effect of previous difficult training sessions. The adaptation occurs or is manifested during unloading rather than loading periods,” (Zatsiorsky. p.108). Here the intensity level will allow an opportunity to develop other aspects of strength (speed for instance) or allow for the delayed transformation and delayed transmutation of the strength developed.
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I did the reset off the first 3 weeks and brain farted the math. Lovely. Reset 3 weeks.
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READ! READ! READ!
Dive head first into reading assignments the day you get them and pay attention to the assignment and discussion questions as you read. It will make your assignments easier to reference and allow for better retention. Allow an hour a day minimum strictly for reading. After you are finished reading the class assignments, get on PAHQ and read everything you can there as well. Be a sponge and soak up everything you can.
You are among like minded individuals who have already bought into PA and all it entails. Share freely and openly all the info and knowledge you can, they will do the same. You are in this together, be a team ASAP. Be open and honest with content and cognition. Ask questions. Be present for others.
Practice what you learn, the more you do it the better your comprehension and application of the information.
RELAX! This is what you wanted, enjoi every second of the experience.
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When speaking with teenage athletes, the excuses and barriers are endless!!
*I don’t have time to make breakfast so I just grab something on the way out the door.
Please go to bed earlier and get up earlier to start your day with a good big breakfast.
*I eat whatever is served at the cafeteria.
Please make your lunch for a week and see how your performance and how you feel improves.
*Teachers won’t let me eat in class.
Please have the teacher contact me, I will work it out. You need to pick foods that are not disruptive to the class.
*I don’t like vegetables.
Grow the fuck up and find some that you like.
Speaking with the parents is a mixed bag. A lot of the moms go crazy when I discuss adding fat to their athlete’s diets. I then discuss the current and past research on good fats vs. bad fats, the caloric expenditure of burning fat , the benefits of more fats in their diets as well, and when all else fails, kick them over to Robb Wolff and Dr. Ken Ford’s pages. Dads seem to want to know what supplements their boys should be on to gain mass. I start by having them switch to whole milk with every meal, and double the serving sizes of all aspects of their meals. One chicken breast becomes two, two becomes four, double the veggies and add rice or fruit when more carbs are needed and they have had their fill of veggies. Put grass fed butter on everything. Please visit PAHQ website for JW’s Wagon Wheel recipe as well.
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Hobbs, slow down on the “most idiotc” aspect. Where in your gym does the most injury occur? Why are there specific articles about the high incidence of injury with jumping? It is all or nothing with plyometrics, you cannot bail out. When this happens the inherent risk skyrockets. At any point during any bar exercise, there is an out by dropping the bar or dumping the weight away from the body. When you leave the ground in any aspect of plyometrics you have no choice but to fininsh and therefore increase the possibility of injury due to internal and external forces that vary in control with the amateur athlete.
dude, you got a little……yeah something right……just a little smudge of fudge there….below your eyes but above your lip…..yeah just the tip…of your nose
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Safety concerns with plyometrics involve the ease of injury in the lower extremity with improper take off and more importantly landing. Valgus forces at the knee can cause a list of injuries to ligaments and cartilage within the synovial tibiofemoral joint and the stability of the patellofemoral joint as well. Looking at just the PF joint and working from the hip down, neuromuscular imbalances place high levels of stress on the quadriceps mm’ group when an athlete lacks the coordination to decelerate and eccentrically load the hamstrings. This knees forward landing recruits the quadriceps as the main deceleration mechanism and places high levels of stress on both the quadriceps tendon above the tibiofemoral jt and the patellar tendon below. Jumper’s knee or an inflammation of the patellar tendon is easily acquired with this landing mechanism. Staying at the patella-femoral joint, any internal or external rotation at the femur upon take-off or landing changes the line of pull of the quadriceps m’ and can allow the patella to sublux or dislocate from the patella-femoral groove. Even slight variations in lateral movement of the patella can set the athlete up for contusions to the articular surfaces, damage to this cartilage, or possible fracture and loose bodies within the joint itself. Improper mechanics of the PF joint can also lead to a softening of the articular cartilage on the posterior patella, chondromalacia patella. In the most severe and drastic of cases a complete shattering of the patella can occur when chronic stress reaches its threshold on bone irritation, the contractile force of take-off or landing improperly will shatter the patella, see KU BB player Roderick Stewart
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Correct assessment, instruction, and reassessment of proper hamstring involvement is key in avoiding issues at the PF joint. Starting with the teaching and realization in the athlete of the Universal Athletic Position, addressing any mobility and flexibility issues in the hip musculature and knee joint with our DB/Spidey/SeeSaw complexes, paying attention to the growth pattern of the athlete, any predisposed congenital anomalies (ie Osgood-Shatters), introduction and focus on posterior chain dominance and working form through the LP to ensure working stability of the PF joint and surrounding musculature.
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Thank you everyone for the definitions and applications of quickness and reactive ability. Quickness will be trained as SST and reactive ability will be developed through SAID and specialization.
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I thought we did this with a Specific Adaptation, not a general one. I also think that the volume increases with each increase in intensity. While we maintain a steady state when looking at rep schemes, 15 reps with 5 more pounds than the week before increases the overall volume of work done. Thoughts?
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Does intensity have to be dictated as the load? Can you increase intensity when the load decreases by increasing the speed of the lift?
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Ben, all the machine guns this weekend has you turnt up! You know you’ll chow whatever box comes your way!! Ask Hobbs!
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DBAP, there is no blood, no open fracture, no chunk of hardwood missing when the athlete’s openly fractured and dislocated ankle gouges a groove into the hardwood, no L shaped leg as he plants to jump and lands out of bounds. Just a nice ball peen hammer to the kneecap from interior forces.
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Putting Hobbs on blast with Siff
“The initial acceleration from rest, for example, is determined primarily by stride length through a high level of explosive and maximal strength of the propulsive muscles”
When you use the plyo step, your stride length is negative, lacking or absent of length (common theme w Hobbs). The plyo step is now heretofore named “the Hobbs negative step”.
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When does she cry??
