Strength and Conditioning Coach for Douglas College and Peak Sports Performance Inc. Comments are my own
Vancouver, BC
Joined July 2012
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Jason & Travis Kelce talking about the ridiculousness of baseball conditioning…
“It makes no sense.”
“You should be running SPRINTS or doing base running. Not running foul pole to foul pole.”
STOP treating baseball players like marathoners
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#CCAAmsc2023 | Introducing your 2023 Men's Soccer National Champions 🥇 @douglasroyals !!!
The @4imprintcanada player of the game : #22 Kiarash Ahmadpourbahnamiri and #11 Josip-Pavle Stojanovic
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DON’T TRUST THE PROCESS!
I haven’t worked with a 100m sprinter in over three years, but now @reeceprescod has dragged me out of retirement so I am back on track.
He has come home full of wisdom after experiencing various training systems around the world, maturing physically , mentally and professionally as an athlete.
Something that has been centre of our discussions has been the strange but commonly used phrase….
“Trust the process”. 🤮
Coaches repeat this all the time but ignore that trust is EARNT not just given.
The audacious thought that athletes should just follow a program and “believe” is ridiculous. In fact many coaches are offended by athletes questioning the process (fragile ego).
When you dig down, many coaches don’t really trust their own process. They HOPE performance will improve but couldn’t bank on it. Maybe that’s why their athletes doubts can fracture their self esteem.
If you can’t trust your own process, why should your athlete?
If you got this far please answer this… how do you build trust with your athletes?
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One of the hardest things about the NFL is when a player is hyper focused on getting healthy with an acute injury strategy & comes back de-conditioned in other aspects of their game. It’s very high risk.
Return to play is not the same as return to high performance.
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Sport coaches:
The height of the box is irrelevant. How high does the center of mass travel? That’s all that matters.
Red line is 7th line on the wall.
Reduce risks
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10 things athletes should stop doing
1. Conditioning daily
2. Not resting between sprints
3. Maxing out on lifts every week
4. Squatting “ass to grass,” at all costs
5. Only so muscle isolated lifts
6. Worrying about “sport specificity.”
7. Mimicking sport movements in the weight room
8. “Balance,” training on wobble boards
9. Long distance (multiple miles) of running
10. Crunches & Russian twists for “core.”
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Help us learn about girls' soccer in Canada! We are recruiting U14-U18 players for an online survey on sport experiences ⚽️
RT to help!
@1BCSoccer @1BCSoccer @ubcwsoc @WFCElite @vanufc @VAFC_official @TSSRovers
(interacting w. the post may publicly identify you w. the study) – at Vancouver, British Columbia
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Aaron Rodgers is near 40
He’s stayed relatively healthy most of his career
He was sacked & landed awkwardly
His foot drove into rain soaked turf & his Achilles went
No, your $99 “bulletproof,” program will not help others avoid the same injury
Shut up.
More of this
Nebraska volleyball playing in front of a stadium-packed 90,000 fans 👀🏟️
(via @BigTenNetwork)
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Absolutely, keep it simple to enhance those qualities
Back when Olympic lifts were all the rage, we spent way too much time trying to turn athletes into Olympic lifters instead of just training for the sport. Now I see the same trend in speed training. Too much focus on track sprint mechanics for non-track athletes is a distraction.
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I’ve had to have this conversation a few times.
“How come my numbers haven’t improved? I’m here all the time.”
- Skips reps/sets
- Doesn’t rest full amount between sets
- Performs exercises w/ 50% intent
- Doesn’t increase weight when they can
Training isn’t osmosis
Showing up is the bare minimum
Results take intent
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Muscle damage is not the process that mediates or potentiates muscle hypertrophy
(Damas et al., 2018)
Love the figure!
From @felipedamasfl
researchgate.net/publication…
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Players are not spreadsheets, and @DawnScott06 always made sure that the human element was prioritized when she worked with us. We were so happy to have her on episode 5 of the show. Watch: youtu.be/jp0a8a7LJOU
