Athletes Acceleration's Sports Training Podcast

Strength and Conditioning Coach Tony Reynolds from the IYCA is interviewed by Athletes Acceleration's own speed training coach Latif Thomas.

Coach Reynolds discusses:

- When to assess your athletes
- Addressing individual issues in group settings
- The value of keeping individual records on your athletes
- Using home training to build skills
- Long-term vision in training programs
- Be "smarter" than your athletes
- Learning from a variety of disciplines
- Creating your own techniques from absorbed information

If you are looking for other ways to develop the overall athletisim of your athletes you can go to Youth Athlete Training

2004 Judo Olympian Rhadi Ferguson discusses what it takes to be a combat sport champion. Learn Ferguson's tips, tricks, and techniques to championship training.

Rhadi Ferguson also speaks on:

- The need to pre-plan training schedules
- Commonly-perceived strength training dangers - myths?
- Training and bulkiness in female athletes
- Neuromuscular adaptation
- Training styles for sprinters versus mid-distance runners
- The relationship of power to speed and endurance
- The Force-Velocity curve applied to running

If you are looking for information on conditioning for any combat sport, make sure you checkout - Martial Arts Conditioning

For total athletic development and programs on developing the fastest, strongest and most powerful athletes check out Sports Speed Training

Judo Olympian, martial arts expert and strength and conditioning coach Rhadi Ferguson sits down with Athletes Accelerations speed coach Latif Thomas and discusses training techniques for athletes.

Also, strength and conditioning and sports training topics:

- Training volume psychology
- Training periodicity and scheduling
- Training with body weight alone
- Using creative training to overcome equipment shortages
- The importance of periodization in training
- Anatomical adaptation - "training to train"
- Speed training
- The value of coaching for both athletes and coaches
- Leadership in coaching

If you want to learn more about martial arts training for speed, strength and conditioning, along with training techniques, drills and exercises for mma, combat grapplers and martial arts go to Martial Arts Conditioning

 Technorati Profile

Part 2 of Strength and Conditioning Coach and 2004 Judo Olympian Rhadi Ferguson interview with Athletes Acceleration's Speed Coach and Performance Specialist Latif Thomas.

Coach Ferguson discusses training and:

- Choosing to use machines in training
- Choosing exercises for strength building
- Single-leg strength-building exercises
- The value of combining optimal weight and velocity for results
- Training your weaknesses
- Speed Training
- The "Super Legs" routine
- The mental versus physical aspects of fatigue

For information on conditioning for any combat sport, make sure you check out this training resource - Martial Arts Conditioning

2004 Judo Olympian and Strength and Conditioning Coach Rhadi Ferguson is interviewed by Athletes Acceleration's Latif Thomas. In this interview thye discuss: 

- Rhadi Ferguson's background
- The connection between power and speed
- Weightlifting for strength development
- The "triple extension"
- The "training age" of an athlete
- Setting standards and the art of coaching
- Why athletes need to learn their craft
- The state of the coaching industry
- Understanding muscle groups and balance

If you are looking for information on conditioning for any combat sport, make sure you checkout - Martial Arts Conditioning

Professional Basketball Strength Coach for the NBA's Chicago Bulls, Al Vermeil, discusses athletic development and performance sports training.

Coach Vermeil also talks about:

Universities, athletics and money, how much fancy equipment do you really need?,

What equipment you really need to invest in?

Predicting testing results and rate of improvement

The shorter the time to execute the athletic skill or training activity, the more genetics it requires

You can't measure heart, (Bill Cartwright)

How far you can take an athlete before skill has to take over?

Do you need steroids to compete?

How to contact Coach Vermeil

For more information on athletic development make sure you take a look at:

Complete Athlete Development

Speed Coach Lee Taft has produced another top notched sports speed training product, this time for baseball. Latif Thomas gives his No BS review and breakdown of Lee Taft's Base Stealing Training System.

In the dvd, Coach Taft covers:

• A step by step blueprint for setting up the most effective base stealing stance
• Why ‘winding up’ with the arms will get players picked off
• The specific foot position that will make or break your first move
• 3 common movement errors that cost athletes valuable time
• The secret to using the hands to get a perfect jump every time
• 4 keys to explosive acceleration
• How to avoid the mistakes even Professional athletes are still making
• Breakthrough drills to automate the technique of the perfect jump
• How to accelerate using the same methods as Olympic Sprinters
  

For more information on the baseball base stealing system, check out:

Lee Taft Complete Base Stealing System

A product review of Lee Taft's Basketball Speed Training program.

Basketball, like many court sports, requires quick explosive speed and instant change of direction ability. Many times games are won and lost by the speed of the athletes. DVD #1 will take you step-by-step through Lee Taft's progression system for teaching basketball speed techniques as he shows you how to apply these BASKETBALL SPEED skills to actual game situations.

Every player should be fully warmed up to meet the demands of the competition that lies ahead. DVD # 2 demonstrates the dynamic warm-up and mobility system Lee Taft uses to properly warm-up basketball players before a practice or game. Also Included on DVD #2 is an invaluable section on Medicine Ball Training specific to basketball players.

Besides the 2 DVD's you get with program, a basketball speed manual is also included. This easy to follow manual outlines all the skills and techniques and their progressions of Basketball Speed. Get immediate access to workouts that can be implemented the same day your program arrives.

Lee Taft Basketball Speed

Strength and Conditioning Coach Al Vermeil, who is the consultant for the Chicago Bulls and has worked in the NFL, NBA and MLB.

Coach Vermeil sits down and talks about:

- why it's easy to make progress with young athletes

- ways to develop athletic ability in young athletes

- exactly what successful coaches do to improve their knowledge

- coaches that Al learns from

- why you shouldn't take all the credit for athletes you 'created'

- the size of your funeral depends on the weather

- if you don't mistakes you're not trying hard enough

- what every personal trainer, coach and strength coach should learn to do

For more sports training information on developing the total athlete, check out Athletes Acceleration's Sports Training Zone

Football Strength & Conditioning Coach Duane Carlisle from the NFL's San Francisco 49ers, discusses developing athletic skills with Athletes' Acceleration's Speed Coach Latif Thomas.

Duane Carlisle also talks about:

- Putting the "fun" in fundamentals
- The truth about ‘Sport-specialization’ for youth athletes
- Athlete passion versus over-parenting
- Strength and endurance training for youth athletes
- Developing good long-term training habits
- How to set up a "speed camp" or clinic
- Passion as a tool for building a successful program
- How to target groups for developing and promoting a training camp

Make sure you check out Duane Carlisle's 'How to Become a Better Athlete - Training for Youth Football" by clicking on the link below:

Training for Youth Football

NFL Strength and Conditioning Coach, of the San Francisco 49ers, Duane Carlisle, discusses his sports training techniques and methods with Athletes' Acceleration Inc.'s own Latif Thomas.

Duane Carlisle also talks about:

- The value of continued learning in coaching
- Outstanding professionals and their specific training techniques
- The "Error and Detect System"
- The "Tier System"
- Stretching concepts that may surprise you!
- Generalized techniques vs. “sport-specific� training
- The value of teaching fundamental movement skills
- How to introduce movement training to very young athletes

To learn more about how Duane Carlisle trains his youth athletes that he also works with go now to:

Speed Training for Youth Athletes