The 8 Vector System was created and published by Jordan Nieuwsma and Nick DiMarco from Elon University. The 8 Vector System is a mental model that allows you to organize the vast amounts of movement variations in sport. The purpose of this is to prepare athletes by physically preparing their bodies and tissues to efficiently decelerate, withstand, and transmit force …
The Need For An Analysis
Blog contribution is written by current Coach with TCU Sports Performance, Andrew Behnam. There are many factors that make up the intricacies of a strength and speed program for a specific sport. What you see on paper is a neatly designed regimen with strategically placed exercises ready for a team of athletes to attack it with relentless intent. What you …
Resisted Sprint Training – Creating Profiles
by Coach Andrew Behnam This week in our interns’ curriculum, speed development is the topic they are studying; particularly speed development involving sleds. We make sure to place an emphasis on speed with our guys because when all else is equal, the faster team wins. Because training for speed is such an important topic, I wanted to hop on here …
What is Vertical Integration
Vertical integration is a training system popularized by Charlie Francis. It is nothing more a way of blending together training components throughout the training plan. The key concept is that a training component never gets removed. It only gets de-emphasized. A thread of that quality always remains in the program. The reason this becomes necessary for team sport athletes is …
The Details Matter
Programming any energy system work has to be built around these 4 basic parameters. Without details on each parameter coaches have no idea what training adaption they’re creating. – As an example we can have the exact same training session with exception to one small detail being the rest interval. – Rest intervals are so vital to determining what adaptation …
Not All Strength is Created Equal
Increasing strength initially has a large effect on the transfer to speed of movement. After that continually developing more often has no effect. The law of diminishing returns kicks in and we have to decide at what point more strength is not worth h the energy applied to it. – As athletes advance the time allowed for force application becomes …
Energy System Development Solutions for Baseball Pitchers
Conditioning for baseball pitchers has long consisted of work that is non-specific to the demands of the game. Often, what you find on baseball fields all over America is a combination of long, slow, distance work or high-intensity interval-type sprints with incomplete recoveries. Not only are these not specific to the energy system needed for the sport, but they compete …
Conditioning and Baseball
Conditioning for baseball players has long consisted of LSD, long, slow, distance work. While slow aerobic work has it benefits, I tend to disagree that it is a useful technique for baseball athletes which leads up to the inclusion of tempo runs. Tempo runs tend to fill the gap between speed, aerobic fitness, and recovery. What are tempo runs? Tempo …
BBA Podcast – All Things Baseball Performance
Michael Zweifel had me on his Building Better Athletes Podcast a while back alongside Dr. Stephen Osterer. Dr. Osterer is a physical therapist / strength coach developing baseball athletes in Canada under the name baseballdevelopmentgroup.com. We talked all things baseball and specifically got into some of the what, and why’s when it comes to screening athletes, the bench press, speed …