Head Nike trainer Ryan Flaherty(no not the baseball player from my high school) is one of the most sought after coaches in the country by athletes for speed and running in general. I listen to his Nike podcast(called Trained) but didn't realize how legit he was until I listened to a podcast of Dr peter attia on JRE from last year. Got into how accurately he canjudge speed by someone's force plate power. Also how the one secret exercise to gain speed is hex bar deadlifts but concentric only. Drop the bar at top. Don't try this at planet fitness
if you're a health geek or trying to get you or your kid faster you should check him out
"I can determine with 99.7 percent accuracy what your 40-Yard Dash time is based on your strength-to-weight ratio," declares Ryan Flaherty, CEO of Prolific Athletes (Carlsbad, California) and trainer to elite athletes such as Marcus Mariota and Russell Wilson.
Head Nike trainer Ryan Flaherty(no not the baseball player from my high school) is one of the most sought after coaches in the country by athletes for speed and running in general. I listen to his Nike podcast(called Trained) but didn't realize how legit he was until I listened to a podcast of Dr peter attia on JRE from last year. Got into how accurately he canjudge speed by someone's force plate power. Also how the one secret exercise to gain speed is hex bar deadlifts but concentric only. Drop the bar at top. Don't try this at planet fitness
if you're a health geek or trying to get you or your kid faster you should check him out
You know what's interesting about the concentric only thing related to speed development? GSP was on JRE talking about how he always trained in a pool with light weights that they would use for ballistic movements. Like Jumping off the bottom of the pool or pressing through the water and things of that nature that obviously wouldn't involve the eccentric portion because it was in water. GSP really thought it helped with explosive power and speed without as much wear and tear on the body, which was interesting and a lot of people mocked what he was saying, but I find the idea worth looking into.
Lastly a great warm up routine he posted couple years ago. Looks like my bootcamp warm up but with more drills I've never seen
https://youtu.be/X8NGIVGmgkc
Funny, I actually do the majority of these or very similar ones when warming up for a soccer game.
I like the falling one at end. I'm so lazy half ass with warm ups
I used to be lazier, but then I started pulling calves and quads more often once I got into my late 20's and early thirties. I'm not actually very good at the sports I play so I rely on being one of the bigger and faster dudes out there to make up for it. Its easy to pull stuff when you're sprinting and stopping a lot in soccer and basketball when you're only playing like one game a week so I think it helps quite a bit.
Get stronger while trying to minimize muscle gain to keep good strength to bodyweight ratio? Trainers who work with weight class athletes have had to know how to do that forever.
banco - I don't really get what the secret sauce is?
Get stronger while trying to minimize muscle gain to keep good strength to bodyweight ratio? Trainers who work with weight class athletes have had to know how to do that forever.
Way more than that obviously if he’s getting paid by multimillionaires. This ferriss episode is really getting detailed
I'll need to check out the Ferris episode and the JRE - thanks for posting.
That stack.com article was VERY good - a lot of people could learn a lot by reading it.
Concentric-only (or at least, concentric-focused) training is a really interesting topic, really - especially as it relates to performance…specifically power-development (which is what most performance ends up being rooted in).
If you look at Olympic lifters, they do very little eccentric work - really only with Squat variations. The rest is concentrics, then dropping the bar.
When you really go down the line re power development, the biggest benefits (esp if you like to nerd out on old Soviet sports science) seem to all come from isometrics, explosive concentrics, and force absorption (then leading into being able to absorb, then re-direct said force).
Also to note - concentric only / based training (esp when done powerfully) won’t build a lot of size, which helps with the relative strength / power (strength / power to bodyweight ratio) as mentioned in the stack article.
It’s not that popular now, but for a while in some circles, people were trying to figure out Jay Schroeder’s methods after he brought up Adam Archuletta’s numbers so much in the NFL combine. He did a lot of stuff like that.
Wiggy - I'll need to check out the Ferris episode and the JRE - thanks for posting.
That stack.com article was VERY good - a lot of people could learn a lot by reading it.
Concentric-only (or at least, concentric-focused) training is a really interesting topic, really - especially as it relates to performance…specifically power-development (which is what most performance ends up being rooted in).
If you look at Olympic lifters, they do very little eccentric work - really only with Squat variations. The rest is concentrics, then dropping the bar.
When you really go down the line re power development, the biggest benefits (esp if you like to nerd out on old Soviet sports science) seem to all come from isometrics, explosive concentrics, and force absorption (then leading into being able to absorb, then re-direct said force).
Also to note - concentric only / based training (esp when done powerfully) won’t build a lot of size, which helps with the relative strength / power (strength / power to bodyweight ratio) as mentioned in the stack article.
It’s not that popular now, but for a while in some circles, people were trying to figure out Jay Schroeder’s methods after he brought up Adam Archuletta’s numbers so much in the NFL combine. He did a lot of stuff like that.
Yep, its very interesting to hear his methods discussed. It makes sense considering most of the muscle damage is done during the eccentric part of lifts so leaving that out would lead to most of the strength developement with a lot less hypertrophy.
I’m always skeptical with guys who mainly work with elite athletes though, simply because sometimes they will be using methods that are complete shit, but it doesn’t matter because they are using these methods on the most genetically gifted people in the sport, so anything will still work, they were going to be elite not matter what.
