Jacques Durand

🚨 Just Published 🚨 DECELERATION specific isometric exercises acutely enhance change of direction performance in academy ⚽️ players ✔️ 8th min most pronounced gains & with early DEC-ISO position ✔️ Application to pre-training or competition warm-ups for COD sports 🏈⚽️ 🏀👇

There are a range of approaches used to assess deceleration ability, each with slightly different constraints. These might include sharp changes of direction (e.g., 505 tests), stopping at a set distance, or using a defined deceleration zone followed by a backpedal.

New research: 10 Year Analysis of Bronco Fitness Test in Super Rugby Athletes Outstanding normative data set ✅ Elite athletes ✅ Large sample size (n=460) ✅ Large testing pool (>1500 test observations) ✅ Male and female norms ✅ Positional breakdowns

Pairing ISOs + plyos is a cheat code! ✅ better intent + positions on the plyo ✅ higher quality reps with less total volume ✅ you can choose the outcome: stimulate or accumulate STIMULATE Day (prime output) iso+plyo ACCUMULATE Day (build capacity) plyos > ISOs

Coaches talk about "technique", but real learning is messier than that. Recent research on skill acquisition (from Hodges, Lohse, Davids, and others) is changing how we think about practice design — especially in combat sports. Here’s the gist 🧵👇 1️⃣ We don’t learn movements, we learn to solve movement problems. 2️⃣ Constraints and variability aren’t noise — they create adaptability. 3️⃣ The coach’s job isn’t to control, but to design environments. My favorite framework comes from Hodges & Lohse (2022), defining three different types of practices: -Practice to learn -Practice to transfer -Practice to maintain Simple. Powerful. And when combined with the ecological & challenge-based models, it gives us a living system for skill development. I wrote a longer breakdown (with all 5 key papers) in the Skool community — written for practitioners, not academics. 🔗 skool.com/agileperiodiza… "Skill acquisition is not about repeating the solution, but solving the problem(s)" --- Me ;)

The Hi-Lo Model Charlie Francis developed this training structure to maximize CNS output and recovery The “High” CNS demand days prioritize high neural output and intensity The “Low” CNS demand days require minimal-no heavy neural demand to allow for recovery Example Week:

Do this speed day with us! 1. Supine SL calf raise iso x30 sec 2. Extensive pogo x30 sec 3. Extensive SL pogo x30 sec 4. Intensive pogo x8 sec 5. Intensive SL pogo x8 sec 6. Loaded sled push-sprint x10 yds 7. Band release sprint x10 yds 8. Lateral half kneeling sprint w/ foot stomp x10 yds 9. Mountain climber sprint x10 yds 10. Sprint stop start x5 yds 11. Med ball vert, release to vert 12. Vertical jump to broad jump 13. Crossover step up 14. KB RDL

Love this piece by @TommyEliBright Different than I organize eccentrics but it helps practitioners appreciate the importance of eccentric training and that it comes in many varieties. Shocks = attenuate Springs = potentiate Engine = tissue & strength capacity

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Goldilocks Stiffness ⬆️ compliant = lots of elastic return, protect muscle, but slow. ⬆️ stiff = fast, low energy storage, muscle get more strain (see right video) 🎯Just right = elastic return, fast enough, muscle buffered from excess strain Tune tendons & MTUs for the task

It's not enough to analyse data, we must communicate it clearly to coaches, staff, and athletes. While Z scores are a valuable statistical tool, their meaning can be difficult to interpret at a glance. Here’s how transforming Z scores into STEN and T scores can help ⬇️

30 unilateral exercises for speed, strength & power 1. Lateral jump to 1/4 turn box jump 2. Skater jump 3. 1/4 turn lateral jump 4. Long single leg box jump 5. Single leg double box jump 6. Dynamic Bulgarian split squat 7. Band accelerated SL jump 8. SL drop jump 9. Dynamic cross body step up 10. Dynamic safety bar step up 11. Maximal SL hurdle jump 12. Dynamic SL Landmine RDL 13. Banded Copenhagen plank 14. SL box jump 15. SL broad jump 16. Extensive SL pogo jump 17. Barbell split stance RDL 18. Intensive SL pogo jump 19. Banded split stance decelerations 20. Goblet position crossover step-up 21. Off set rack position Bulgarian squat 22. Over speed SL broad jump 23. Rack position high box step up 24. Heavy slide board side lunge 25. Classic DB Bulgarian split squat 26. Maximal SL depth landing 27. Lateral cross over sled push 28. Slide board reverse lunge 29. Sled sprint drivers 30. Landmine side lunge

Football season is coming so let’s talk conditioning. “In Shape” is a complex term that encompasses a variety of qualities: -Aerobic Conditioning -Work Capacity -Repeated Sprint Ability -Energy System training -Heat Acclimation 🧵to address each so your team is ready this fall

Understanding TRIMP: A Guide to Heart Rate Training Impulse 🔗 globalperformanceinsights.com/post/understan…

⚽💪 Strength Micro-dosing Approach: A Practical Framework for Integrating Strength Training in Football sportperfsci.com/wp-content/upl…

The Yankees spent $153M and lost to a team using Excel spreadsheets: In 2003, the Oakland A's had $40M but discovered a mathematical loophole. Every baseball scout in America called them crazy. It sparked the biggest revolution in sports history: 🧵

Modern foods are k*lling your gut. The results? They drain your energy, increase obesity risk, and make you depressed. Here are 10 natural foods proven by science to heal it effortlessly:🧵 1. Turmeric

The Hi-Lo Model Charlie Francis developed this training structure to maximize CNS output and recovery The “High” CNS demand days prioritize high neural output and intensity The “Low” CNS demand days require minimal-no heavy neural demand to allow for recovery Example Week:

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