Speed Training with Dennis Mitchell: Hosted by CSCA Advisory Team Member Joseph Dolcetti
Date & Time (check your time zone): Thursday, December 2nd, 2021, 1130 am (GMT-5) Join the live Q&A and we’ll even give a pair of calf sleeves away to a lucky winner! CLICK HERE to register “Join LILAs upcoming Speed Webinar with our newest LILA Partner - Legend Coach Dennis Mitchell @greenmachine, Nike elite coach, USAT&F Coach, Olympic champion as we explore EXOGEN wearable resistance for elite speed conditioning technique and mechanics and discuss our program for the coming 2022 off season with some of the very fastest speed demons in human history. “Speed Training with Dennis Mitchell” is targeted [...]
High Performance Facility Design to Opening: Lessons Learned While Creating a World Class Training Environment at McMaster University
Bahman Bahrami & Jonathan Brown The High Performance Area (HPA) is a training centre for athletes of all ages under the direction of the McMaster Performance unit in the Department of Athletics and Recreation at McMaster University. With a student centered and community involved model, the department’s strength and conditioning staff uses the HPA to service varsity student athletes, experiential learning opportunities, secondary school students, Olympic athletes, professional athletes, and community athletes and teams. A brand new space for the HPA recently finished construction after the design process started in 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxzQ-KimaM0 Athlete touring the facility for the first time [...]
Dr. Matt Jordan Interview: Jump Assessments – Measurements, Decision Making, Return to Play
https://youtu.be/q0foCc1wQws Matt Jordan is a specialist in player health and performance. He has been a sport scientist consultant for elite athletes over six Olympic Winter Games. Matt holds a Master of Science in Exercise and Neuromuscular Physiology, and a PhD in Medical Science. His research focuses on neuromuscular adaptations to resistance training and knee injury/re-injury prevention. A key method in his research is the development of neuromuscular testing techniques that can be used to monitor recovery after knee injuries to forecast recovery and improve rehabilitation. Currently, Matt is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of [...]
S&C in a Professional Soccer Academy
Strength & conditioning support for football (soccer for us North Americans) has evolved over time. The evolution of the “fitness coach” has, in part, coincided with the increase in game demands alongside the proliferation of tracking devices and sport science research over the last two decades (1,2). As a result, the integration of S&C coaches to ensure the physical preparation of the team and support coaches with training load management has become the standard. This phenomenon has quickly translated to younger levels – which was precisely my job as the physical preparation coach with the Vancouver Whitecaps academy. I later [...]
Facilitating Behaviour Change in an Athlete-Centered Coaching Environment
Since 2019, the Fitness and Performance (F&P) department at the University of Toronto (U of T) has been continuously improving how to measure student needs, and how to deliver programming that meets, and oftentimes exceeds, those needs. At the foundation of this shift are two concepts that are growing in popularity throughout the industry, (i) Athlete-centered coaching, and (ii) leveraging a behaviour change framework, like the COM-B model (Capability, Opportunity, Motivation factors of Behaviour change). The University of Toronto recently conducted an extensive review of the Strength and Conditioning opportunities provided to students and student-athletes. An outcome of this review [...]
Using Countermovement Jump to Assess Daily Variations of an Athlete
The vertical jump test is one of the most widely used physical tests to measure lower body power. In 1921, Dudley Allen Sargent was the first to start using and researching the vertical jump to measure athletic capability (1). The test has evolved over the last 100 years to become one of the most widely used tests by all levels of practitioners and coaches. Vertical jump tests are also used in research and applied settings for a wide variety of reasons around athletic development and performance, such as monitoring if an athlete is adapting to a training program (2). One [...]
CSIO Sport Science Conference 2021
About this event The CSIO Sport Science Conference is a multidisciplinary conference that highlights the work of integrated support teams (ISTs) and practitioners who work with Canadian national team athletes and coaches. Learn how strength & conditioning, physiology, biomechanics, nutrition and allied sport therapy professionals integrate, collaborate and innovate to enhance the performance of high performance athletes as they prepare to compete on the world stage at Olympic and Paralympic Games. All sessions will be virtual with live Q&A. The sessions will be recorded for registered participants to view following. The conference sessions are Friday December 3rd (2pm -5pm EST), [...]
