By Harry Fisher (MSc, BSc Hons, ASCC) Pull ups our choice at DO Training for the June exercise of the month. People hate pull ups for one major reason,THEY’RE HARD!!! And if you can’t do one, just hanging there is not a good look. However it is a basic human movement, and can come…
The Start Position Grip bar with an overhand (pronated) grip shoulder width apart. Hang from bar with arms fully extended. Keep neutral head alignment. Coaching Cues 1. Squeeze bar. 2. Pull shoulder blades down and back. This ensures all forces produced are transferred effectively to produce a strong and powerful motion. Maintaining a good shoulder…
By Julie Gooderick (MSc, Bsc Hons, ASCC) The concept of specificity to the athletes’ sport must always be considered by the strength and conditioning coach in order to maximise the transfer of physical training to sport. In experienced, adult athletes, training must be similar enough physiologically to the desired aspect of sports performance in order…
Duncan Ogilvie (MSc, CSCS, ASCC) – Director of DO Training Even though the weather in London is pretty abysmal right now, and the only holiday I will be taking this summer is trekking up Mt. Kilimanjaro, for some of my readers it is nearly summer time and that means one thing….holiday time. You may have…
Duncan Ogilvie (MSc, CSCS, ASCC) – Director of DO Training Over the last few weeks I have been asked by a lot of athletes that I work with about off season conditioning and what they should be doing. Many of my athletes have recently finished their competitive seasons and now have 6-8 weeks ‘off’ before…
Duncan Ogilvie (MSc, CSCS, ASCC) – Director of DO Training If you read our recent article on “Want to back squat??? Then deep squat!!!” you will know that in order to deep squat you will need amongst other things, adequate ankle/hip mobility and flexibility. Coach Dan Gable once said “if it is important, do it…
By Julie Gooderick (MSc, BSc Hons, ASCC) Gymnastics and Dance a sport for pansies right? Prancing around in lycra, making pretty shapes to music? No, there are many good lessons to be learnt from gymnasts and dancers when developing an athlete, even for the most meathead coaches who assume you’re doing something wrong if you’re…
Are you an advocate of the back squat? Is it an exercise that you build your programme around year in, year out? I must admit over the past few years I have gone back and forth about it. I’m a fan of Coach Mike Boyle and his philosophies on the back squat and preference to…
By Julie Gooderick (MSc, BSc Hons, ASCC) A large number of recent articles for junior athlete training have been centered around optimizing strength development. Whilst clearly important for all sports, in many sports speed development is just as important in the production of a well-built athlete. In sports such as tennis, hockey, volleyball and football,…
By Julie Gooderick (MSc, Bsc Hons, ASCC) DO Training would like to introduce you to a very talented, skilled and intelligent coach Julie Gooderick. In the first, of what will be many articles posted by Julie she looks at coaching the youth athlete. As always read, like, share and tweet. Youth athletes are very different…