Major Book Announcement!
I might have been gone for a minute, or two months, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy.
Coach Travis Floeck and I are teaming up, this time to write a book. ‘Start with the Core’ will be a major expansion on why we train athletes the way we do, by starting with the core. This book is an anecdotal and evidence-based deep dive into what the ‘core’ is, why we begin training with the core, specifics regarding our order of operations, progressions, and the pattern hierarchies that govern our approach, and how we have implemented these principles while training athletes across ages and populations to reduce injury risk and improve performance.
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Throwback: 400-meter Physiology and Training
Moving to British Columbia to study at UBC in 2009 allowed me to take a deep dive into my technical and practical understanding of the sports of track and field and cross country. I was studying with and being mentored by some of the brightest minds in the world while working as an assistant coach with the Thunderbird track and field and cross country teams. I had also begun training and racing again myself. Luckily, I found two brilliant training partners with Canadian national team pedigrees, one in cross country, and one in the 400-meter, who inspired further intellectual curiosity and inquiry. During my graduate research into the training methodology and the bio-energetic physiological demands of the 800-meter run, I found the 400-meter run to be nearly as interesting and contentious.
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Throwback: 800-meter Physiology and Training
In 2010 I graduated from the University of British Columbia School of Human Kinetics. At the time I was a track and field and cross country coach and had moved to Canada to expand both my technical and practical knowledge of the sport. At UBC I was provided with the opportunity to study, rather specifically, areas of the sport that had produced debate with other coaches while also working as an assistant coach with the Thunderbird cross country and track and field teams. One of the areas I found most contentious was the training of 800-meter runners.
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The Medical Meathead
Performance and Prevention: The intersection between injury prevention and performance has unsurprisingly become a major part of my clinical practice. My latest project has been to collect pre and post-season vertical leap, speed/agility/quickness (SAQ) and Functional Movement Screen (FMS) data for our volleyball team.
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Anterior Hip Pain and the Anterior Chain / Posterior Chain Relationship
I was invited to be a panel member this last Saturday at the Sports Related Injuries Continuing Education Symposium sponsored by Inland Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine Clinic, Pullman Regional Hospital, and Gritman Medical Center.
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