Robin Eager

Now for horizontal jumps...

Fun little way to add resisted walks with minimal equipment and large numbers. Add distance for intensity or hug weights.

Everyone needs to remember this...

If specificity is king, why don't we do everything at race pace? Well...We tried that in the 1950s. Jim Peters hammered every run at near marathon pace. He ran 2:17... crazy fast for then... But we now know, you need the whole gamut of intensities to support speed/endurance. That you need both general and specific work to support one another. It was the breakthrough in the 60s and 70s...that sequencing, and developing general qualities can enhance the specific later AND allow you to handle more and bounce back from that hard work quicker. It's why Lydiard (and others) accelerated training understanding. That saw that the kink in the pipe shifted and changed. And that how we build the base or foundation, allowed us to not run into limiting factors later on. Think of it like this. If I'm trying to deliver lots of objects from point A to B. At first, getting a faster car or faster roads might be the best solution. But eventually, my limit shifts to needing more carrying capacity. And then it might be producing more widgets to sell. And then it might be being able to unload them quick enough at their destination. Lydiard and others realized that they had to spend time building up the total capacity, before they fine tuned the delivery and efficiencies. It's the same with training. It's why sometimes we need lots of easy, other times emphasizing the in-between, and sometimes the final touches. You need it all. When and how much varies. But anyone who tells you to just do race pace or fast stuff all day everyday....well you're training like it's the 1950s.

A must read paper that I go back to often: Does initial strength level affect adaptations to weightlifting, plyometric & ballistic training? STRONG (2.01x BW squat) vs WEAKER (1.20x BW squat) groups 10 wk intervention: weightlifting derivatives, ballistic & plyo training

Long Term Athletic Development on Easy Mode: Beginners - Coordination - GPP - Confidence Intermediates - Build skill - Accumulate volume - Get strong-enough Advanced - Explosive strength - Rate of force development - Transfer to field There’s your next 5 years of training

The lower trapezius plays a critical role in scapular control, helping keep the shoulder in a strong, stable position throughout the throwing motion. Weak lower traps = poor scapular upward rotation = more stress on the arm.

Those looking for Youth Athletic Development resources, courses and programs DM for details.

Here's a short thread on an athlete I worked starting in 2009. I will show some snapshots of specific football conditioning test I used + a look at some of his training (aerobic training, heavy strength training, aerobic developing in the weight room, and 3rd party combine test. pic.twitter.com/yyypPfD9zO

Targeting of specific muscles and adaptations is really topical in hamstring rehab at the moment! This probably is derived from new types of imaging based around quantifying muscle volumes and greater access to EMG. Here’s a table that I prepared for a presentation!

Endurance performance depends on multiple factors beside VO2max (@DrMJoyner @AndyBeetroot et al model) In trained athletes, improving one component can have trade-offs for others. Performance can improve despite a fall in VO2max, or vice-versa, or any other permutation 6/

Article link: link.springer.com/article/10.100… Keep reading for a summary of our main findings and questions 📚🧵2/18 Alt text in images have additional details & links. Full access link at the bottom🔗👇

I put together a free guide: How to Design Better Workouts. Filled with insights on writing creative workouts that get the right stimulus for the desired adaptation. A few excerpts: thegrowtheq.ck.page/c51b8637db

🧵1 Using Vekhoshansky's stimulation method to develop explosive strength in team sports. Stimulation methods include contrast and complex training. I utilise complex methods (exception being occasional French contrast if unloading).

🧵1 How can SandC make a difference in team and ball sports? Verkhoshansky "An increase in the speed or power of competitive exercise is the main criterion for progress in sports results." In team sports how do you understand what movements you wish to improve?

@RiccardoRambo @mboyle1959 @adamcvscott @BatesFit @StrengthDebates @AustinJochum @clh_strength @CoachAlanBishop Wrote this re "transfer" of physical capacity. However it's not really the transfer of capacity, it's the transfer of physiological abilities that support that capacity (hopefully makes sense). flipsnack.com/AAEDEF5569B/us…

A thread (1) Do we make SandC too complicated for team sports? An example could be strength/force training for COD and Acceleration. Do we really need to focus on very different qualities? Initial thoughts would be can we actually use physical qualities to estimate COD and Accel?

@Dr_Weyand Paper from Parolin and colleagues: researchgate.net/publication/12…

The suggestion that interval based sports do not need a priority on aerobic fitness is a misunderstanding. For 2 critical reasons: 1. The anaerobic energy system is not a limitation to any aspect of your sport performance. (if you feel otherwise, check out @Dr_Weyand work ⬇️showing all out efforts <60s are primarily limited by technique and force not energy system delivery) 2. After repeated sprint 1, the aerobic system supports increasing amounts of the effort. See graphic and study from the 90's below. If you want capacity to repeat and recover intensity, Just ‘speed and anaerobic work’ is not enough.