Today has a been a great day of talks and some very enlightening information from our presenters! Here is a short breakdown of everything that we have gotten in the presentations:
Training Principles and Theory: Dr. Stone talked about what principles and concepts govern our understanding and our application of training to athletes. There are a number of physiological considerations, especially with regard to adaptation that we have to take into account to maximize the potential improvement that our athletes are able to make.
General Concepts of Modern Periodization: Dr. Hornsby summarized the history and development of our use of periodization as a concept of training. He traced this into our current understanding of more optimal training planning, into the phase potentiation/block periodization commonly used today.
Periodization for Football: Meg and Dr. Stone elaborated on how important strength and proper planning of training is to high level performance in football. Ben followed this up with extensive information about how to fit conditioning into the whole picture.
Lessons from Rugby: Clive spent a great deal of time speaking about his experiences integrating sport science and strength and conditioning. He gave some very interesting information about how performance monitoring is able to direct and shape the training of his rugby squad. Top man!
Speed Training: Dr. DeWeese broke our understanding of optimal sprinting into only a few things- apply vertical force quickly, train short to long, and when you have newer/out of shape athletes, you can encourage great technique by training on a slight incline. He also hammered home the point that you should increase stride length organically through increasing strength and rate of force development, not by forcing it via other methods!
And finally: The roundtable, where some great questions and answers were exchanged. Here is a couple that were covered: "How do you structure drills for athletes that come back from breaks out of shape? How do you apply data collected from GPS units? How can we build a strong relationship with sport coaches? With Usain Bolt being so much taller than his competition, at what point does height become detrimental?"
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