Transcribed from video: - What I've done is I've created a checklist you guys can go through. So this is obviously there in your notes. This is the checklist that you guys can go through when you're about to go into an event and...
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Short Hamstrings Impact Deadlift Position, Not Squat Position
Transcribed from video: - Because we're tucking under in that deadlift position there's going to be tightness through here. Now, the same does not necessarily apply to a squat 'cause a lot of people will say, okay, this is...
The science of strategy
Transcribed from video: - So follow some of these strategies and we'll really go into some of the science behind this. We talked about the energy systems, if you take it all the way to yesterday morning. We talked about the...
Training with accomodating resistance to increase maximial strength
Transcribed from video: - A really good way of doing this is by using some accommodating resistance, which can be done through chains or bands. Those of you who have done some work with me in the past know that I programme a lot...
Max effort work to build absolute strength
Transcribed from video: - Let's talk about max effort. So max effort is where you are lifting, lifting heavy, it can no longer be as fast. So maybe you're not generating as much power, this is your max effort strength work. This...
Energy Production in the Body
Transcribed from video: - What are we actually trying to do? Well to understand how to train for work capacity, which is basically getting more done in less time. Does that make sense? If you can run 12 kilometres in an hour, you...
Why You Should Train the Anaerobic Threshold
Transcribed from video: - What I've done is I've created a checklist you guys can go through. So this is obviously there in your notes. This is the checklist that you guys can go through when you're about to go into an event and...
The importance of sleep to maximise recovery
Transcribed from video: - Sleep, again, it normalises the hormones responsible for recovery so you can adapt better. So, you must sleep. Its an important thing. That's probably, and I'm hardly cover it other than these this...
A Fatigue Rating Scale to Maximise Benefit and Minimise Overtraining
Transcribed from video: - Alright, let's talk about the importance of cycling the intensity here. Because what you'll find is you don't just want an even, doing the same amount of work every single day. We want a little bit of...
Strategies to fix your negative self talk
Transcribed from video: - This is the important bit for you, because this is the real practical bit. Again, hands up, if you need to improve your self-talk. Alright, here's exactly how you do it. Firstly, three steps, firstly...
Training changes around the female hormonal cycle
Transcribed from video: - I'll do that with girls who are leading up to a big competition because we need to know what affect that's going to have on their competition performance and also on their training. What we do a lot is...
Injuries are a part of life
Transcribed from video: - At some point it's something you're going to have to deal with. It's part of the game, yeah. And quite often a sedentary population, they won't be exposed to the injuries because they're so cotton-wooled that they're never putting their body...
Goals are ineffective without deadlines
Transcribed from video: - The amount of time it takes to complete a task will expand to fill the amount of time you have to complete that task. So if you're given a work deadline, this needs to be on my desk 5:00 p.m. Friday. What time does it hit their desk? -...
Negative effects of being over aroused
Transcribed from video: - A good way to understand this, we can actually look at some of the research, and they did research into 400-meter runners, so let's do this experiment. We got two groups. Just put your coffee on the...
Common musculo skeletal faults in the dip and pull up
Transcribed from video: - [Dan] We're going to finish this off with the dip or the push up, because the pull up is the same as this. This gives us a little bit of ammunition to talk about the shoulder blades. So if someone's doing a pushup, we saw with Remy, that you...
Two solutions to the biggest pacing mistake made by athletes
Transcribed from video: - What's the solution to that? Well there are two ways we can do it. We've already talked about the first one, when we talked about programming for work capacity. Cardiorespiratory endurance, energy system...
The way we perceive ourselves, determines who we actually become
Transcribed from video: - A really interesting piece of research, and I think this was probably in the days before we had ethics committees and stuff, because it's not necessarily ethical, but they took a class of school kids,...
Do CrossFitters need accessory work?
Transcribed from video: - An accessory work is, basically, your weak point training. So if we take this biassed programming we talked about in our last module, we turn this into weak point training for accessory work. This is...
Key factors to build the skills of imagery
Transcribed from video: - All right, so let's talk about how you actually get this. The two main factors that you guys need to have, you need to make sure your imagery is vivid and it's controllable. And by vivid I mean...
The importance of speed when training for absolute strength
Transcribed from video: - This is a concept which is probably something that a lot of you have had exposure to, this idea that power equals force times distance over time. So a little bit of physics. That's how we calculate...
How to use visualisation to correct your technique
Transcribed from video: - I want everyone to think of a movement that they really struggle with. Maybe it's a snatch. Maybe it's the bar muscle-ups that we worked on yesterday. Think of something that's your, "Ah, I just can't...
The Importance of both Mobility and Stability
Transcribed from video: - These things have to come as a package deal. These things have to come together. You need to be mobile. You need to be stabile. What are these two things? Stability very simply is your ability to resist...
Competition Day Nutrition
Transcribed from video: - Let's talk about competition day nutrition. And again I think this is one where people traditionally really struggle. Our nervous system is made up of lots of different bits. Two of those bits are called the sympathetic and the...
How and why goal setting works
Transcribed from video: - Like I said guys, the education side of this is really important. There is a lot of real deep research on understanding why the goal setting process works and the fact that that increases the...
How more recovery equals more improvement
Transcribed from video: - We exercise, we train. We apply a stimulus to our body. We then repair our body and there's then a response. And most people go stimulus, response, but that's not the case. It's not stimulus, response....
How to increase arousal levels to enter an ideal performance state
Transcribed from video: - So what can we actually do? Alright, well, we talked about a lot of the things that were signs of being under aroused. We can actually flip them around and use them to our advantage to then become more...
The Causes of a Poor Overhead Position
Transcribed from video: - So, you try and coach this athlete out of it. So from here you say pull the bar back over your shoulder blades, and again they go to this. Now what is tight? What is weak? What's tight overactive? What's...
What to do in the Days Before a Competition
Transcribed from video: - So let's look at this from seven days out, and we're going to summarise here the four different areas. The training which we've touched on, the movement prep we've touched on, the nutrition and also add...
Improving your own performance when you’re part of a low performance culture
Transcribed from video: - It's easy to expand your environment. So with again, social media. Yep, yep, but your environment is not just a geographical, physical thing. So your environment may be part of a Facebook group that you're in with other high class athletes in...
Three Ways to Correct Faulty Movement Patterns
Transcribed from video: - Okay, there are three steps that we can go through to fix your movement. Some people would go straight to one of them and miss others, some will miss them completely, but basically, there are three steps and in order of importance. Not in...