FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE:

CONNECTING THE DOTS WITH MASTER COACHES

GAIN XI • June 2018

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INTRODUCTION

Some numbers:

• 11 years of blogging

• 7 years of interviews

• 29 written interviews

• 158 HMMR Podcast episodes with 87 guests

• 121 GAINcasts with 44 guests

160 total interviews!

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INTRODUCTION

Vern Gambetta // Harry Marra // Dan Pfaff // Gary Winckler // Pat Connolly // Anatoliy Bondarchuk //

Derek Evely // Dave Tenney // Tom Myslinski // Frans Bosch // John Pryor // John Kiely

Don Babbitt // Mike Bahn // Randy Ballard // Brett Bartholomew // Mark Bennett // Noah Bryant // Kyle

Boddy // Ed Burke // Eric Cadée // Tony Ciarelli // Ken Clark // Jerry Clayton // John Dagata // Paul Davis

// Cal Dietz // Jonas Dodoo // Jean-Pierre Egger // Clay Erro // Jeremy Fisher // Brian FitzGerald // Wil

Fleming // Tracy Fober // Matt Foreman // Nick Folker // Arno Galmarini // Nick Garcia // Wade

Gilbert // Kelvin Giles // John Godina // Finn Gunderson // Vésteinn Hafsteinsson // Benn Harradine //

Nick Hill // Josh Hingst // Reese Hoffa // Alex Hutchinson // Steve Ingham // Kibwé Johnson // Matt

Jordan // Jennifer Joyce // Michael Joyner // Kathrin Klaas // Primoz Kozmus // Matt Kredich // Danny

Kerry // Bill Knowles // Adam Kuehl // Carrie Lane // Dan Lange // Sergio Lara-Bercial // John

Larralde // Michael Lepp // Sergej Litvinov // Marcel Lomnicky // Nick Lumley // Allan Macdonald //

Danny Mackey // Steve Magness // Bryan Mann // Glenn McAtee // Patrick McHugh // Kevin McMahon

// Joe McNab // JB Morin // Buddy Morris // Steve Myrland // Shawn Myszka // Adam Nelson // Dan

Noble // Bill Pendleton // Lachlan Penfold // Kyle Pfaffenbach // Craig Pickering // Matt Price // Jim

Richardson // Julian Robinson // Justin Rodhe // Angus Ross // Steve Roush // Des Ryan // René Sack //

Bill Sands // Goldie Sayers // Stephen Seiler // Justin St. Clair // Dale Stevenson // Brad Stulberg // Jüri

Tamm // Troy Taylor // Greg Thompson // Mike Tuchschererer // Pierre-Jean Vazel // Paul Venner //

Peter Vint // Greg Watson // Chris Webb // Peter Weyand // Stephan Widmer // Mac Wilkins // Dave

Wollman // Jason Young // Szymon Ziolkowski

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TRAINING TRIAD

BalancedResponsive Simple

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RESPONSIVE

Responsive BalancedSimple

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RESPONSIVE

“Training is testing . . .

testing is training.”

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“You don’t test the athlete,

you test the plan.”

Case Study Anatoliy Bondarchuk

1. Measure What Matters 2. Measure What You Can Capture 3. Measure What You Will Use 4. Minimize The Variables 5. Don't Overreact

“More data means more information, perhaps, but it also

means more false information.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Movement screens are not new, coaches have been doing them for years . . . it’s called

watching practice.”

Dan Pfaff

“Subjective measures reflected training loads with

superior sensitivity and consistency than objective measures.”

Saw et al. 2015

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RESPONSIVE + SIMPLE

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SIMPLE

Simple

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“Other things being equal simpler explanations are generally

better than more complex ones.” William of Ockham

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“If you can’t explain it simply,

you don’t understand it well enough.” Albert Einstein

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“For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn’t give a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.”

Oliver Wendall Holmes

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SIMPLE

simple ≠ easy

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“There is no sense pursuing the last 2% until you have done the first 98%.”

Vern Gambetta

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Respond to complexity with simplicity:

“The more complex something is, the fewer rules you can have.”

John Pryor

“Training should be simple:

do something that works until it stops working,

then try something else.” Mike Tuchscherer

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The Bondarchuk Method

1. Execute 7 to 10 exercises. 2. Repeat every session until new best. 3. Change exercises. 4. Repeat

“I always ask the question: is this specific to the event? And if not, is it essential to injury prevention?

The rest of it you don’t need.” Pat Connolly

Exercise Classification Pyramid Anatoliy Bondarchuk

• CE: Competitive sport

• SDE: Part of sport

• SPE: Same muscles, different movement

• GPE: Different movement, different systems

Dynamic Correspondence Yuri Verkoshansky

• Amplitude and direction of movement

• Accentuated region of force production

• Dynamics of the effort

• Rate and time of maximum force production

• Regime of muscular work

Balanced

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BALANCED

Balanced elements: ↗ Holistic = ↗ Balance

Balanced system: ↗ Adaptable = ↗ Balance

Balanced parts: ↗ Connections = ↗ Balance

Balance is not always found in the middle.

Nassim Taleb and the Barbell Strategy

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

20 miles 6 miles 6 miles 12 miles 6 miles 12 miles 6 miles

Bill Bowerman's Hard-Easy Method

“The hard must be hard; the easy must be easy.”

Stephen Seiler

“Train movements, not muscles.” Vern Gambetta

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TRAINING TRIAD

“You find balance by systematically destabilizing the athlete in training.”

Jean-Pierre Egger

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PUTTING IT TOGETHER

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Optimum Efficiency

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How do you adjust your programming?

BalancedSimple

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Explain your philosophy in one sentence.

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What does your program balance?

Simple

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. . . but what is different?

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