This week’s guest on the Pacey Performance Podcast is Rett Larson, strength and conditioning coach for the German women’s national volleyball team. He’s previously coached the Dutch and Chinese women’s volleyball teams, and worked for EXOS Athlete Performance for seven years. Prior to that, he learned his trade coaching younger athletes in strength training between the ages of 8 and 18 in Southern California.
Rett’s here to talk about warming up, cooling down, and why it can pay to coach younger athletes before moving on to adult-aged coaching. As well as the benefits of experience, coaches can really see how to engage with a group and notice the smaller performance details. With warming up, Rett is an expert in this field gives key advice on how to design effective warm ups, structure sessions, and why keeping things ‘messy’ can be more beneficial.
Rett also discusses cool downs, again discussing how to structure such sessions, keep the coach’s own ego in check relating to athletes’ attitude towards them, and how to maintain attention once the main training session is over. He also provides some bonus advice on percussive therapy devices, and the ones he uses. To learn all this and much more, hit the play button now.
This week’s topics:
Choosing the right force plate metrics and using them effectively with Eric Renaghan (Head of Strength & Conditioning at St Louis Blues)
Plyometrics and jump training; progressions, regressions and recovery circuits with Boo Schexnayder (Strength Coach at Louisiana State University)
Side hustles, getting a job in strength and conditioning and what is networking (?) with Keir Wenham-Flatt (Athletic Development Coach at the College of William & Mary)
What makes a good athletic development coach (from a coach's point of view) with Simon Cron (Assistant Coach at the New South Wales Waratahs)
Invisible monitoring; what is it and why all coaches should be striving towards it with Jace Delaney (Director of Performance and Sports Science at University of Oregon)
Getting and keeping a job in strength and conditioning with Nick Grantham (Performance Enhancement Specialist)
Speed training in team sports; profiling, mechanics and the importance of eccentric training with Mike Young (Owner of Athletic Lab & Director of Performance at North Carolina Courage)
The current state of sports nutrition in American collegiate and pro sport with Pratik Patel (Director of Performance Nutrition and Assistant S&C Coach at New York Giants)
Working with snow sport athletes, agile periodisation and learnings from working in schools with Rob Walsh (Head of Strength & Conditioning at Netherlands Ski & Snowboard)
Team sport athletes & track sprinters; differences, models, and profiling with James Wild (Technical Lead for Performance at Surrey Sports Park)
High intensity interval training and manipulating variables and effects with Martin Buchheit (Sports Scientist and S&C Coach) & Paul Laursen (Sports Scientist and Coach)
Developing physical qualities and reducing injury risk in-seaon in the NBA players with Ramsey Nijem (Head Performance and Strength & Conditioning Coach at the Sacramento Kings)
Strength and conditioning in general population vs professional athletes with Kevin Carr (Coach & Manager at Mike Boyle Strength & Conditioning and Owner of Movement as Medicine)
What skills coaches should be developing apart from coaching and the Pacey Performance Podcast with Rob Pacey (Host of the Pacey Performance Podcast)
Programming speed, strength and power in collegiate sport; with Rick Franzblau (Director of Olympic Sports for Strength & Conditioning at Clemson University)
Weightlifting derivatives; when to catch, 1RM testing and unilateral alternatives with Tim Suchomel (Assistant Professor in Exercise Science at Carroll University)
Strength and conditioning in schools and designing environments for youth development with Craig Harrison (Director of Athlete Development at AUT Millenium)
Hamstring injury masterclass with Tony Shield, David Opar, Ben Ashworth, Matt Taberner and Lachlan Wilmot
Training load masterclass with Aaron Coutts, Shane Malone, Adam Sheehan, Richard Akenhead and Mathieu Lacome
Working in sailing and striving to win the Americas Cup along Sir Ben Ainsley with Ben Williams (Head of Human Performance at Ineos Team UK)
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