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Athletic Development course:

Force-Velocity Profiling and Fiber Type Transitions: Force-velocity profiling assesses an athlete’s ability to produce force across a spectrum of movement speeds. Understanding this spectrum allows coaches to design training that targets the specific needs of an athlete or patient, whether they require improvements in strength, speed, or power.The topic also addresses muscle fiber type transitions, emphasizing how training can shift fiber types from slow-twitch (Type I) to fast-twitch (Type II), or vice versa, depending on the stimulus. This transition plays a crucial role in performance. You will learn how different training protocols can influence fiber type composition and optimize performance in a variety of sports or rehab.

Topics:
  • Force-Velocity Profiling and Fiber Type Transitions
  • Biomechanics from an Exercise Perspective
  • HIIT & Neurocognitive Training
  • Eccentric and Deceleration Training
  • Force-Velocity Profiling and Fiber Type Transitions
  • Hypertrophy for Athleticism
  • Microdosing and Neural Priming

Biomechanics from an Exercise Perspective: This topic delves into the mechanics of human movement and how biomechanics can enhance exercise performance and injury prevention. By studying the forces exerted on the body and the motion of joints during different exercises, this topic provides a framework for understanding optimal movement patterns. The focus is on how to apply biomechanical principles to various forms of exercise, with the goal of improving efficiency and safety. During this topic joint angles, force application, impulse and rate of force development are discussed in the context of maximizing performance while reducing injury risk. You’ll explore how exercise biomechanics can be used to select or tweak exercises based on the athlete’s or patient’s specific needs, ensuring maximum transfer to their sport.

HIIT & Neurocognitive Training: High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is one of the most time-efficient methods to enhance both aerobic and anaerobic fitness. This topic explores how HIIT can be effectively integrated into athletic training and rehabilitation programs to develop neuromuscular performance, boost metabolic efficiency, and elevate overall performance. In addition to its physical benefits, this topic delves into the growing field of neurocognitive training. By combining cognitive tasks with physical movements, neurocognitive training challenges the brain and body simultaneously, improving athletes’ decision-making speed, reaction times, and focus under pressure. The dual-task approach is also crucial in rehabilitation, as injuries should be treated and rehabilitated as neurophysiological events, which require a multifaceted strategy.

Eccentric and Deceleration Training: This topic delves into the benefits of eccentric training for both performance and injury prevention, highlighting how eccentric exercises prepare athletes for rapid deceleration in sports. It covers various types of eccentric training, including Accentuated Eccentric Loading, Fast Eccentric Loading, and Isoinertial (flywheel) training. Eccentric training is especially crucial in rehab because it enhances both strength and neuromuscular coordination, helping athletes regain control during dynamic, high-intensity movements. It also provides neurocognitive benefits by engaging the brain’s motor control centers to optimize movement patterns, which is key in injury recovery. Deceleration training is just as important as acceleration—if you have the speed of a Ferrari but the brakes of a Fiat Punto, you’re bound to face problems. Strong deceleration mechanics not only reduce injury risk but also ensure athletes can stop and change direction efficiently, a critical component in sports performance and injury prevention. In this topic you will explore deceleration drills and eccentric exercises that strengthen muscles and tendons, to reduce the likelihood of non-contact injuries such as ACL tears.

Hypertrophy for Athleticism: This topic focuses on increasing muscle size while simultaneously improving speed and power potential. Did you know there’s only a weak correlation between hypertrophy and strength gains (r = 0.157)? (Ahtiainen 2016). Research shows that traditional hypertrophy methods often shift muscles toward a slower phenotype and primarily lead to sarcoplasmic hypertrophy (Vann 2020, Haun 2019, Pareja-Blanco 2017, Meijer 2015, McDougall 1982). Classic hypertrophy training increases the volume of the sarcoplasm within muscle cells, boosting muscle size without directly enhancing contractile strength (Vann 2020, Haun 2019, Pareja-Blanco 2017, Meijer 2015, McDougall 1982). It can also cause a shift in muscle fibers from type IIx to IIa and even type I, compromising maximal power output and contraction speed (Pareja-Blanco 2017), with less impact on maximal strength gains. This topic explores training methodologies that facilitate myofibrillar hypertrophy and primarily target fast-twitch fibers. The goal is to not only increase muscle size but also enhance athletic performance and optimize rehab (eg. Post ACLR).

Microdosing and Neural Priming: Microdosing involves providing small, frequent doses of training stimuli to maintain high performance without causing excessive fatigue. This topic outlines how to integrate microdosing into training programs to ensure athletes can perform at their peak while minimizing the risk of overtraining. Neural priming is the process of activating the central nervous system to enhance athletic performance in the short term. By using specific exercises or warm-ups designed to stimulate neural pathways, athletes can experience improved power output, speed and coordination in competition. This topic explains the science behind neural priming and how it can be applied in both training and pre-competition routines, but also how it can be applied to optimize the rehab process.

2-Day Course | 14 Hours of In-Depth Training Experience a perfect blend of theory and practical application designed to elevate your expertise.

  • Certificate of completion
  • Course Materials: Detailed syllabus and clipboard for easy note-taking.
  • Refreshments: Coffee, water, and one sandwich per participant per day to keep you fueled.

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