Joe Di Stefano: Training for Obstacle Course Racing
What is Spartan Race? Spartan Race, with one million participants across 200+ events in 30 countries, is the global leader in outdoor obstacle course racin...
Lee Burton: Programming Needs of a High School Football Player
What athletes want isn’t always what they need. Programming to blend their "wants" with what you decide they need is an art, as Lee Burton explains using...
Brian Gwaltney: The Tangential Model of Periodization
Before I entered the health and fitness field, I was an engineer. I studied mechanical engineering in college, minored in mathematics, and then designed br...
Dan John: What Makes an Athlete Elite?
Excerpted from his lecture of the same title. In 2002, when the Olympics came to Salt Lake City, I came up with a simple list of five basic keys that in...
Guy Massi: Differentiated Instruction, Learning Styles and Learning Disorders
Early in my career I relished the opportunity to work one-on-one with clients and athletes. It afforded me with opportunity to truly hone in on the finite ...
Mike Prevost: Protein Needs and Muscle Hypertrophy
For decades there has been much debate about the appropriate dose of protein for maintaining or building muscle mass. Doses as low as the recommended daily...
Joel Jamieson: Using Heart Rate Variability
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) helps us make training decisions, and I’m going to give you an overview of how that works. But before we get to HRV, we have...
Patrick Ward: Enhancing the Physiological Buffer Zone
A healthy athlete needs to have a Physiological Buffer Zone; What are you doing to that area between full physical capacity and the point of breakdown, inj...
Joel Jamieson: Building the Performance Model
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwTCduuCLjo When I first opened up and started working with the fighters who came from next door, it was a huge questio...
Mike Prevost: Heart Rate Reserve – Measuring Cardiovascular Fitness Improvement
You can learn a lot about a person’s fitness and training by observing heart rate. It is a simple metric that is easily and cheaply measured, but its val...