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 …
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 …
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 …
ABCA Podcast on Developing Athletes
Strength training for baseball players has certainly evolved over the years and for this week’s podcast, we connect with two of top strength coaches in college baseball in TCU’s Zach Dechant and Coastal Carolina’s Nick White. This episode is packed with tremendous insight as both Dechant and White speak about their growth as strength coaches and detail the specific plans …
Summer Research – Resisted Sprint Training
Our interns recently took on the project of researching various topics. The most current topic was resisted sled training. The following studies are breakdowns of what myself as well as part of our summer intern class found. Resisted sprint training is a hot topic in the field of performance right now and many articles can be found recommending a variety …
3 Principles for More SPEED
Quality over quantity Charlie Francis has been a great influence to me over the course of my career. The famed Canadian sprint coach believed that you develop speed with speed. We train at full intensity when we are trying to develop speed, and acceleration. All runs are as fast as the body will allows us for that given day which …
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