Posts Tagged ‘speed’
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Filed under: Continuing Education, coaching
The Learnings of A Nomad
by Carson Boddicker on Mar 16th, 2009
My friends call me “The Nomad” and with good reason. You see, in my lifetime I've been lucky enough to bounce around to homes all over the globe. I think my current total of “homes” is hovering somewhere around eleven or twelve. I have been lucky enough to meet some incredible people, see some incredible things, and experience the incredible diversity of the world. I have also been able to learn a great deal in that time for which...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Continuing Education, Podcasts
BP Podcast #3: Mike Young
by Carson Boddicker on Mar 13th, 2009
This week we had a quick lesson from Dr. Mike Young on the disconnect between speed and power athletes and endurance athletes. We also discussed what can be learned from the group and how it can be added to training. Give it a listen! Links: www.EliteTrack.com www.HPCSport.com Have a great afternoon. I am off to California. If you are in the Orange County area and want to talk shop in the next week, send me an e-mail! Car...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Anatomy and Physiology, corrective exercise, injuries
Compensation
by Carson Boddicker on Mar 12th, 2009
It has been said before. The body is an incredibly skilled compensator. If your glutes shut off, your body will over recruit adductor magnus and hamstrings in extension as well as a little help in external rotation from the biceps femoris. Sure, we all know that, but I was particularly fascinated today when listening to a lecture on cardio-pulmonary physiology. The speaker was discussing the respiratory muscles and their general functio...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Running, strength training
Good training is good training
by Carson Boddicker on Mar 12th, 2009
I was having a conversation recently with another strength coach, and during the conversation the similarities between programs came up. He said, "You know, any way you look at it a squat is a squat. We train the same things that USC does...It's all about taking the same tools and applying to your group of athletes." Further, in Eric Cressey's Interview of Kevein Needle it was said that "good training is good training." I couldn't agree m...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Running, plyometrics, strength training
Jumping Circuits
by Carson Boddicker on Mar 4th, 2009
Yesterday I mentioned the inclusion of jump circuits on recovery days. Before someone gets the wrong idea and starts to add in high intensity reactive work, I had better clarify. The jumping circuits are a series of jumps, hops, and bounds done for relatively high reps with incomplete recovery between sets. The exercises and total volume should be dictated by relative preparedness of the athlete and time of year. Initially, the bulk o...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: plyometrics
The final touch of power…
by Carson Boddicker on Mar 3rd, 2009
Phase IV Plyometrics: After having completed several sessions of Phase III, the athlete is ready for the next step. The athlete is now prepared to do higher intensity reactive plyometrics like repeated vertical jumps, hurdle jumps, power skips and bounds, repeated long jumps, etc. In this time, I still prescribe jumps that are mostly ground to ground contacts. I've found drop jumps to be too advanced of a progression right now for runners a...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Running, Uncategorized
The Arms Controversy
by Carson Boddicker on Mar 3rd, 2009
We've all been there before...entering that last 100m and starting to lock up. It's about that point where one will likely here "BIG ARMS" or "PUMP YOUR ARMS" or something similar from a coach in the crowd. The theory is that big arm action drives leg action, and you'll be able to finish stronger. It's reasonably well accepted that driving your elbows back and through will improve your finishing speed, but it is factual? A recent study in t...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Running
Moving With Powerful Intent
by Carson Boddicker on Mar 2nd, 2009
This morning I grabbed a book off of my shelf that I haven't read for a while--Core Performance: Endurance. As I selected a random page, I was greeted with the title "Running with Purpose," and what followed was an interesting discussion of taking a runner, who just goes through the motions, to an athlete who moves with powerful intent. I believe that it presents an excellent concept from which all runners can learn. Just like a basketball pla...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Program Design, Running
S.A.I.D. What?
by Carson Boddicker on Feb 26th, 2009
The Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demand (S.A.I.D.) Principle is one that coaches and athletes must take into account in planning their training. Quite simply, the principle states that the body will adapt to the specific load to which it is exposed. Thus, a person doing tempo runs adapts to the stress of the tempo run, a person doing 200 meter reps at 26 seconds each adapts to running at a speed of 26 seconds per 200, and a person doing a l...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Running, plyometrics
Plyometric Progress: Reduction before Production…
by Carson Boddicker on Feb 25th, 2009
Plyometrics are a good thing...when done right. You see, there was a time in my life that I liked plyometrics so much I'd compose entire hours of training sessions with noting by plyometric drills. I'd hop, I'd bound, I'd hop and spring, I'd jump on boxes, I'd jump off of boxes. I'd sometimes do up to 500 contacts in a session, and often times they were things like high intensity drop jumps and box jumps. I initially improved leaps and bounds...Read More » Tags
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