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:
What really matters and what really doesn't matter in a S&C programme with Marco Cardinale (Head of Sports Physiology at Aspire Academy)
Hamstring injuries in football, the use of big data and links with big business with Dave Tenney (Sports Scientist & Performance Manager at the Seattle Sounders)
Maximal aerobic speed (MAS), celocity based training and strength training with youth development with Dan Baker (Strength & Conditioning Coach. Lecturer & Speaker)
Pacey Performance Podcast #99 - Eamonn Flanagan (Lead Strength & Conditioning Coach at the Irish Institute of Sport)
Pacey Performance Podcast #98 - Special 'Youth Football' Edition
Pacey Performance Podcast #97 - Richard Akenhead (Football Physiologist & Fitness Coach at Aspetar)
Pacey Performance Podcast #96 - Alek Gross (Head of Sports Science at Southampton Football Club)
Pacey Performance Podcast #95 - Phil Coles (Director of Medical Services at the San Antonio Spurs)
Pacey Performance Podcast #94 - Damian Hughes (Professor of Organisational Psychology & Change at MMU)
Pacey Performance Podcast #93 - Nick Winkelman (Head of Athletic Performance & Science at the IRFU)
Pacey Performance Podcast #92 - Jess Spendlove (Athletic Sports Dietitian at GWS Giants & Cronulla Sharks)
Pacey Performance Podcast #91 - Tim Suchomel (Assistant Professor at East Stroudsburg University)
Pacey Performance Podcast #90 - Allistair McCaw (Performance Consultant & Owner of the McCaw Method)
Pacey Performance Podcast #89 - Darcy Norman (Director of Performance at AS Roma)
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Pacey Performance Podcast #86 - Angus Mugford (Director of High Performance at the Toronto Blue Jays)
Pacey Performance Podcast #85 - Pete Atkinson (National Lead for S&C at the English Cricket Board)
Pacey Performance Podcast #84 - Kelvin Giles (Coach, Consultant & Educator)
Pacey Performance Podcast #83 - Chris Tombs (Part 2)
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