Above:  James Barber, former VSP coach, demonstrates his explosive power.  Below:  Nabil Langkilde moves explosively to get out of the way of some athletes performing an acceleration drill.

 

Sports Performance training classes will soon be available at CrossFit Sweat Shop.  These classes are for all aged athletes and are designed to increase their explosivness, thus improving their speed, agility, acceleration and rotational power.  Regardless of what sport an athlete plays, an increase in explosive power will always have a positive effect on their athletic performance. 

Please note:  THIS IS NOT CrossFit for kids.  This is a program I’ve helped to develop over the last 7 years and most recently as the former Sports Performance Director of Velocity Sports Performance in Concord.  There will be some aspects of metabolic conditioning, but the majority of the program is comprised of strength training in the form of olympic lifting, in addition to plyometrics, and advanced agility drills.  Explosive training is not geared towards increasing the size of the muscle.  Granted muscle hypertrophy is likely, the goal and product of this program is making muscles more powerful/explosive/”fast twitch”, at their given size. Lifting weights, as done in most high school weight rooms is not only a poor use of time, it can actually be detrimental to an athlete’s performance due to lack of supervision, and misinformation that results in most athletes performing body building type exercises.  If you or your athlete is not on a program specifically designed to increase their explosivness, there is a large gap in their training regimen.

 

Click below to watch a video demonstration of explosivness.

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Feel free to read an article I wrote for a local newspaper several years back regarding strength training for youth athletes.   (in the article “crunches” should read “situps”….bad editor! … also my photo in the article clearly demonstrates the effects of a carbohydrate rich diet!)

Below are the links, a link for each page.

http://www.claytonpioneer.com/PDFS/page%2013%2006%2003.pdf

http://www.claytonpioneer.com/PDFS/page%2015%2006%2003.pdf

   

Tuesday’s WOD:

250m Row, then 2 Rounds of:
15 DB Clean and Jerks
15 KTE’s from rings
10 Burpees
20 Walking lunges

rest 3 minutes then repeat begining w/ 250m row

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