Sports performance conference to be held this week.

Expert Discussion Advanced Sports Sciences
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Fourth
Annual
Coaches &
Sport Science
College
December 18th-19th, 2009
UK Strength & Conditioning
Accreditation offered
December 20th, 2009
Bridging the gap between sport
science and coaching………
Presented by:
Online registration available, please see
website for details
www.sportscienceed.com
UK Strength & Conditioning
Accreditation,
Sunday December 20, 2009
For more information about the UKSCA and
the Accredited Strength & Conditioning Coach
process please visit www.uksca.org.uk

Friday December 18th, 2009
7:30-8:00 am– Registration
8:00 – 8:15 – Welcome – Meg Stone and others (Dean,
AD, VP, Pres. etc.)
8:15 – 8:50 – An Introduction to Periodization –
a superior method of training – Mike Stone
8:50 – 10:50 - Periodization as applied to strength/power
training - What are the real models and how well do they
work (linear, non-linear, undulating, daily undulating ??)

  • Greg Haff
    10:50 – 11:00 - Break
    11:00 – 12:15 - Tapering : The ups and downs
    – Inigo Mujika
    12:15 – 1:15 – Lunch
    1:15 – 2:30 – Boy, am I tired: Recovery and Restoration
    Methods, Which ones might work – Bill Sands
    2:30 – 3:15—Sports Performance Enhancement Groups,
    Monitoring , Demonstrations/video – some easily performed
    field tests of strength, power and endurance.
  • Mike Ramsey
    3:15– 3:45 - Conditioning for Games Players (warm-up,
    running, agility, flexibility, etc.) – Part 1- Protocol
    Rationale – Clive Brewer
    3:45 – 4:00 – Break
    4:00– 4:30 - Conditioning for Games Players (warm-up,
    running, agility, flexibility, etc.) – Part 2- Demonstration
    – practical application and keys to teaching good
    technique – Clive Brewer
    4:30 – 5:30 - Landing mechanics, bounding, depth jumps
    and just plain jumping - Mike Favre
    6:00– 8:00 - Banquet – Travis Triplett, Master of Ceremony
  • The ETSU Center of Excellence for Sport Science
    and Coach Education – Meg Stone (6:30 – 7:00)- So,
    you want to work with athletes – the ins and outs of
    working with elite athletes. – Inigo Mujika (7 – 7:30)
    Saturday December 19th, 2009
    7:45– 8:15 – Registration
    8:15 – 8:30 – Welcome - Meg Stone et al.
    8:30 - 9:30 – Weight-room management and organization
    – conflict resolution, scheduling and more
    – Mike Gentry
    9:30 –11:00– Machines and Free weights – what is the
    difference? – Greg Haff
    11:00 – 11:15 – Break
    11:15 – 12:30 - Everything you wanted to know about the
    squat(s) and deadlift(s): Demonstration/video- practical
    application and keys to teaching good technique
    – Dan Wathen
    12:30 – 1:30 - Lunch
    1:30 – 2:45 - Everything you wanted to know about
    weightlifting movements: Demonstration/video- practical
    application and keys to teaching good technique
    – Mike Stone
    2:45 – 3:45 – Oh say can you see? – Vision and vision
    training for athletes - Jeff Falkel
    3:45 – 4:00 –Break
    4:00- 5:15 – Coach, how much weight should I lift? - How
    to set the load, (Failure/RM’s, heavy and light, daily,
    weekly etc.) : Importance of calculating volume load and
    intensity etc. - Mike Stone and Greg Haff
    5:15 – 6:15 - Round Table - All
    2009 Keynote Speakers
    Meg Stone- Two–time Olympian and distinguished
    strength and conditioning coach. Director of the Center of
    Excellence for Sport Science and Coach Education.
    Dr. Mike Stone- Director of the Exercise and Sport Sciences
    Laboratory at ETSU. Previous Head of Physiology for
    the USOC.
    Dr. Greg Haff– Assistant Professor in Exercise Physiology
    at West Virginia University School of Medicine.
    Dr. Inigo Mujika- Outstanding and highly recognized
    Sport Scientist/physiologist and coach at the Araba Sports
    Clinic in the Basque country, Spain.
    Dr. Bill Sands– Formerly the Head of Biomechanics and
    Director of the Recovery Center for the United State Olympic
    Committee. Now Head of the Sport Performance Lab at
    Mesa State University in Colorado.
    Dr. Mike Ramsey– Associate Professor at ETSU, emphasis
    in Cardiovascular Physiology.
    Clive Brewer– Head of Human Performance for English
    Rugby League and the contracted strength and conditioning
    specialist at Wimbledon Tennis Championships.
    Mike Favre– Formerly the Strength and Conditioning
    Coach for the United States Olympic Committee, now the
    Head Strength and Conditioning Coach of Olympic Sports
    at the University of Michigan.
    Dr. Mike Gentry– Well-recognized Strength and Conditioning
    Coach, Assistant Athletic Director for Athletic
    Performance at Virginia Tech.
    Dan Wathen– Former Head Athletic Trainer and
    Strength and Conditioning Coordinator at Youngstown
    State University.
    Dr. Jeff Falkel– Well-respected Physical Therapist and
    Strength and Conditioning Coach with his area of expertise
    in vision training.
    Human Kinetics will be available to discuss their publishing
    Program Schedule Registration
    Full Conference $200
    One Day Only $100
    Student Rate Per Day $50
    (Student ID Required)
    UKSCA Accreditation $375
    Total
    *Breakfast and lunch will be provided both days
    *Fee is nonrefundable but may be applied to future events
  • A $25 fee will be charged to those who register at the door
    ** Groups of 5 or more are eligible for a discount of $175
    per person (only applicable for full conference)**
    Name
    Phone
    Email
    Address
    Organization
    CEUs applying for: NATA NSCA
    REGISTER ONLINE
    www.sportscienceed.com
    Send Complete Forms To:
    ETSU Center of Excellence for Sport Science and Coach Education
    ATTN: Meg Stone
    P.O. Box 70654
    Johnson City, TN 37614-1701
    Phone: (423)-439-8477
    Email: Schoen@etsu.edu
    Conference to be held at
    the Millennium Centre
    http://www.millctr.com/
    Johnson City, TN Information
    Airports: Tri-Cities Airport (20-minute drive)
    McGhee-Tyson Airport (Knoxville, TN 2-hour drive)
    Asheville Regional Airport (Asheville, NC 1-hour drive).
    Nearby Hotels:
    Carnegie Hotel: www.carnegiehotel.com
    Phone: (423) 979-6400 (Mention ETSU Coaches College)
    Sleep Inn: Phone (423)915-0081
    Hampton Inn: Phone (423)-929-8000
    For other area information and list of hotels,
    please email Liz Schoen: Schoen@etsu.edu
    TBR # 170-012-09 1M

Sorry for the late notice. Hopefully this is okay to post here.

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This is always a great conference! Last yr was great and this year looks to be even better. Cant wait to go next week. Dr. Stone and Meg do an outstanding job every year.

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No doubt about it being an excellent conference. This will be my third consecutive year there-I missed the first one. I’m very much looking forward to this one.

The Stones are very good people.

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Pioneer
thanks for the info and because you have some experience attending this seminar in the past all the more reason to let others know it will be a worth while experience for them.
Cheers!

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Can anyone provide me a place to stay, cause I may come over?
EDIT: Damn, it is too soon… unable to organize anything
BTW, there was a seminar here in Belgrade and Vladimir Issurin held a presentation on Block Training. Nothing especially eye-opening.

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Ugh I wish I could go. Is there anyway I can contact someone for the info in the clinic? Im willing to pay for the info. Thanks in advance

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I wish I was able to make it. Unfortunately I could not make it happen as I just learned about this conference a few weeks ago.

I am actually applying to ETSU next year in the hopes of being accepted to the MS program over there.

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In the fall of 2010 they will start a PhD program with a sports performance track. I believe you get your masters degree en route though I’m not completely sure on that.

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Yes I saw that on their page when I was doing my research for the master’s program. Definitely looks like an interesting program and something I may consider after my MS. Right now I am not absolutely sure if I will want to pursue a PhD, so I have decided against directly applying to that program.

Pioneer, will you be attending the conference? Would you mind sharing any notes or interesting topics that are discussed? I would definitely be interested. All the schools I am applying to are within 5-6 hours of ETSU, so pending my acceptance to a graduate program I will definitely be there next year.

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Notes from 2009 CSSC at ETSU.

An Introduction to Periodization – a superior method of training – Mike Stone

-Too much of a load (especially intensity) limits long-term gains. Need to be patient in programming.
-Fatigue dissipates faster than fitness
-Concentrated load model will involve raising one component-volume and/or load while dropping another. One component is emphasized while others are de-emphasized.
-Longer accumulation phase will require a longer realization phase.

Periodization as applied to strength/power training – What are the real models and how well do they work (linear, non-linear, undulating, daily undulating ??) – Greg Haff

-Mentioned the works of Matveyev, Nadori, Thibaudeau and others. Both Haff and Stone noted that Nadori might have been as much “ahead of his time” as any of the other noted sports scientists of the 50’s/60’s.
-A side note that overhead squats/snatch squats activate virtually all of the muscles along the spine more so than any other exercise other than full snatches.

Tapering : The ups and downs – Inigo Mujika

-Indicated that the most effective tapers featured high intensity and low volume and NOT low intensity/moderate volume nor medium int. and medium to low volume.
-45% volume reduction better than 10-15% decrease from one meso to the next. 41%-60% volume decrease seems to benefit most athletes.
-High frequency taper is better than trying to achieve taper via a reduction of the frequency of high intensity work.
-4 week taper can be good. Beyond that it is more difficult to achieve a peak. Within that 4 week period, most often the volume reduction should be no greater than 20%. My note: in order to correlate well with early volume reduction recommendation the mesos he must mean must be longer than 4 weeks in length where he advocates up to 41-60% reduction.

-My question to Dr. Stone was; Are most of Dr. Mujika’s findings applicable to most strength/power sports since virtually all of his work is done with top athletes from endurance sports? His answer was yes, he believes that to be the case.

-10 day taper can be effective for strength/power athletes. My addition is that I believe that if the athlete is of a lower qualification that a 10 day taper might not be necessary and is likely too long.
-Progressive taper is thought to be superior to a step taper.
-A well conducted taper should result in approx. a 3% performance increase.
-High quality training must remain in the program to maximize the taper. Increase in the training load 3 days out from target comp. can result in a performance increase. My edit: this could potentially be very risky if you don’t know how to do this effectively.
-Reduce volume-load 8 days out and increase slightly 3 days out for best performance.

Conditioning for Games Players (warm-up, running, agility, flexibility, etc.) – Part 1- Protocol Rationale – Clive Brewer
Conditioning for Games Players (warm-up, running, agility, flexibility, etc.) – Part 2- Demonstration – practical application and keys to teaching good technique – Clive
Brewer

-The most powerful angle of the knee is at 125-135 degrees. My edit: this is identical to the angle to achieve a proper DKB or double knee bend and is therefore similar to Stone’s findings. Also very similar to the proper angle for the back leg in starting blocks.

  • Use of a sled for acceleration development with approx. 5-7% of bodyweight.

-It was mentioned by many the importance of monitoring/testing to see what is contributing positively towards performance and what might be inhibiting performance in order to re-program as necessary. Also, just to be sure, in general, that the given program is truly achieving what it is supposed to be.

Weight-room management and organization – conflict resolution, scheduling- John Graham and John Taylor

-No one leaves the weight room unattended.
-Be sure the athletes understand the expectations that the coach has for them both in terms of execution of the lifts, conduct/etiquette in the weight room and maintaining the weight room. Keeping it clean and orderly-athletes must respect the facility and clean up after they have used the equipment.
-Not a place for them to bring food to and leave bottles and wrappers.

Everything you wanted to know about weightlifting movements: Demonstration/video- practical application and keys to teaching good technique – Mike Stone

-In olympic lifts and their pulling variations, the mid-thigh position is the strongest position (as mentioned above) and the weakest position is at the knee.
-Boxes or stands should be utilized to strengthen specific movments for pulling power development.
-One value of the Olympic lifts and related exercises is that the landing stress is much lower than some other methods such as plyometrics exercises due to the weight limiting the height of the takeoffs.
-DKB can be taught in as few as 9 sessions and varying the loads appears to be more effective than using the same loads in facilitating the learning process.
-General statement that over-teaching is worse than no teaching.
-Explicit teaching is best early on in the teaching then semi-ecological appears to be more effective as time goes by.
-Said shin/knee must be somewhat ahead of the bar in the starting position and the bar must be moved back towards the lifter when the lift is begun.

-My note: the mid-thigh position as demonstrated here and in several videos I’ve viewed is actually above mid-thigh and thus features a fairly upright trunk with the wrists flexed in and the elbows rotated out and straight.

Oh say can you see? – Vision and vision training for athletes – Jeff Falkel

-Strobe glasses used to actually impair slightly one’s vision to create a visual overload. —Not really much different from other training. The visual system could be trained for anyone via an overload which will ultimately lead to accommodation.

Coach, how much weight should I lift? – How to set the load, (Failure/RM’s, heavy and light, daily, weekly etc.) : Importance of calculating volume load and intensity etc. – Mike Stone

-Spoke again on the MTP as being a concentric pull with no counter movement.
-Load=mass
-VL (volume- load) / time= kg/sec.
-VL is the best way to determine both the amount and intensity of the work done as you are taking into account both measures.
-1rm ability drops during the week due to accumulated fatigue. My edit: this is why in most cases you must drop the intensities late in the week.
-The highest power outputs for cleans and snatches are between 70-85% of a 1rm. They percentages are lower for exercises like squats/benches and other high force/low velocity lifts.
-Unloading is related to volume-load even if the work is done at very high intensities. So an unload week could be the heaviest week of a block due to the volume load being the lowest of the block.
-Peak power output for jumps at zero additional load (other than bodyweight) ONLY for untrained athletes. As training takes place over time, peak power percentages/intensities move away from zero and closer to 30%.
-To increase power development-pulls alone could do this if technique is very sound. Especially cleans/jerks.

-More full lifts that are regularly done by even elite lifters= greater injury rates so the vast majority of the pulling volume should come from partial pulls-clean pulls, mid-thigh pulls, clean grip shoulder shrugs, etc. Eventually, once proficient you should include more full or power versions of the Olympic lifts in the training but to limit, somewhat the volume of the full lifts due to the aforementioned increased injury risk.
-Advocated the top-down method of teaching the Olympic lifts. Advised to insist upon athletes catching the barbell fairly low-not straight legged as some do.

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Notes from 2009 CSSC at ETSU.

An Introduction to Periodization – a superior method of training – Mike Stone
-Too much of a load (especially intensity) limits long-term gains. Need to be patient in programming.
-Fatigue dissipates faster than fitness
-Concentrated load model will involve raising one component-volume and/or load while dropping another. One component is emphasized while others are de-emphasized.
-Longer accumulation phase will require a longer realization phase.

Periodization as applied to strength/power training – What are the real models and how well do they work (linear, non-linear, undulating, daily undulating ??) – Greg Haff
-Mentioned the works of Matveyev, Nadori, Thibaudeau and others. Both Haff and Stone noted that Nadori might have been as much “ahead of his time” as any of the other noted sports scientists of the 50’s/60’s.
-A side note that overhead squats/snatch squats activate virtually all of the muscles along the spine more so than any other exercise other than full snatches.

Tapering : The ups and downs – Inigo Mujika
-Indicated that the most effective tapers featured high intensity and low volume and NOT low intensity/moderate volume nor medium int. and medium to low volume.
-45% volume reduction better than 10-15% decrease from one meso to the next. 41%-60% volume decrease seems to benefit most athletes.
-High frequency taper is better than trying to achieve taper via a reduction of the frequency of high intensity work.
-4 week taper can be good. Beyond that it is more difficult to achieve a peak. Within that 4 week period, most often the volume reduction should be no greater than 20%. My note: in order to correlate well with early volume reduction recommendation the mesos he must mean must be longer than 4 weeks in length where he advocates up to 41-60% reduction.

-My question to Dr. Stone was; Are most of Dr. Mujika’s findings applicable to most strength/power sports since virtually all of his work is done with top athletes from endurance sports? His answer was yes, he believes that to be the case.

-10 day taper can be effective for strength/power athletes. My addition is that I believe that if the athlete is of a lower qualification that a 10 day taper might not be necessary and is likely too long.
-Progressive taper is thought to be superior to a step taper.
-A well conducted taper should result in approx. a 3% performance increase.
-High quality training must remain in the program to maximize the taper. Increase in the training load 3 days out from target comp. can result in a performance increase. My edit: this could potentially be very risky if you don’t know how to do this effectively.
-Reduce volume-load 8 days out and increase slightly 3 days out for best performance.

Conditioning for Games Players (warm-up, running, agility, flexibility, etc.) – Part 1- Protocol Rationale – Clive Brewer
Conditioning for Games Players (warm-up, running, agility, flexibility, etc.) – Part 2- Demonstration – practical application and keys to teaching good technique – Clive
Brewer

-The most powerful angle of the knee is at 125-135 degrees. My edit: this is identical to the angle to achieve a proper DKB or double knee bend and is therefore similar to Stone’s findings. Also very similar to the proper angle for the back leg in starting blocks.

  • Use of a sled for acceleration development with approx. 5-7% of bodyweight.

-It was mentioned by many the importance of monitoring/testing to see what is contributing positively towards performance and what might be inhibiting performance in order to re-program as necessary. Also, just to be sure, in general, that the given program is truly achieving what it is supposed to be.

Weight-room management and organization – conflict resolution, scheduling- John Graham and John Taylor
-No one leaves the weight room unattended.
-Be sure the athletes understand the expectations that the coach has for them both in terms of execution of the lifts, conduct/etiquette in the weight room and maintaining the weight room. Keeping it clean and orderly-athletes must respect the facility and clean up after they have used the equipment.
-Not a place for them to bring food to and leave bottles and wrappers.

Everything you wanted to know about weightlifting movements: Demonstration/video- practical application and keys to teaching good technique – Mike Stone
-In olympic lifts and their pulling variations, the mid-thigh position is the strongest position (as mentioned above) and the weakest position is at the knee.
-Boxes or stands should be utilized to strengthen specific movments for pulling power development.
-One value of the Olympic lifts and related exercises is that the landing stress is much lower than some other methods such as plyometrics exercises due to the weight limiting the height of the takeoffs.
-DKB can be taught in as few as 9 sessions and varying the loads appears to be more effective than using the same loads in facilitating the learning process.
-General statement that over-teaching is worse than no teaching.
-Explicit teaching is best early on in the teaching then semi-ecological appears to be more effective as time goes by.
-Said shin/knee must be somewhat ahead of the bar in the starting position and the bar must be moved back towards the lifter when the lift is begun.

-My note: the mid-thigh position as demonstrated here and in several videos I’ve viewed is actually above mid-thigh and thus features a fairly upright trunk with the wrists flexed in and the elbows rotated out and straight.

Oh say can you see? – Vision and vision training for athletes – Jeff Falkel
-Strobe glasses used to actually impair slightly one’s vision to create a visual overload. —Not really much different from other training. The visual system could be trained for anyone via an overload which will ultimately lead to accommodation.

Coach, how much weight should I lift? – How to set the load, (Failure/RM’s, heavy and light, daily, weekly etc.) : Importance of calculating volume load and intensity etc. – Mike Stone
-Spoke again on the MTP as being a concentric pull with no counter movement.
-Load=mass
-VL (volume- load) / time= kg/sec.
-VL is the best way to determine both the amount and intensity of the work done as you are taking into account both measures.
-1rm ability drops during the week due to accumulated fatigue. My edit: this is why in most cases you must drop the intensities late in the week.
-The highest power outputs for cleans and snatches are between 70-85% of a 1rm. They percentages are lower for exercises like squats/benches and other high force/low velocity lifts.
-Unloading is related to volume-load even if the work is done at very high intensities. So an unload week could be the heaviest week of a block due to the volume load being the lowest of the block.
-Peak power output for jumps at zero additional load (other than bodyweight) ONLY for untrained athletes. As training takes place over time, peak power percentages/intensities move away from zero and closer to 30%.
-To increase power development-pulls alone could do this if technique is very sound. Especially cleans/jerks.

-More full lifts that are regularly done by even elite lifters= greater injury rates so the vast majority of the pulling volume should come from partial pulls-clean pulls, mid-thigh pulls, clean grip shoulder shrugs, etc. Eventually, once proficient you should include more full or power versions of the Olympic lifts in the training but to limit, somewhat the volume of the full lifts due to the aforementioned increased injury risk.
-Advocated the top-down method of teaching the Olympic lifts. Advised to insist upon athletes catching the barbell fairly low-not straight legged as some do.

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Videos-full length or nearly so- from the presentations at the recent conference are available here:

http://www.coachesinfo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=143&Itemid=258

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Thanks!:cool:

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This year’s conference will begin next Friday 12-17-10.

http://www.sportscienceed.com/2010/09/07/5th-annual-coaches-sport-science-college/