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Our approach to human performance helps build stronger people, stronger organizations, and stronger communities.

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Ken Vick@CoachKenVickOct 21
Availability is the most important ability. Because all others are irrelevant when gone.
Sportsmith
@SportsmithHQOct 20
Availability is one of the greatest assets an athlete can posses From @BenYoungASCC Read the full article here ➡️ sportsmith.co/articles/why-i…

Is availability the most underrated performance metric in sport? - Sportsmith

Why should ‘keeping athletes on the training floor’ be treated as a performance metric in its own right? Athletes improve primarily through exposure to their sport. Technical skills, decision making,...

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Ken Vick@CoachKenVickOct 15
One reason I think we need a broader framework for eccentric training: The eccentric continuum contains some of sport’s biggest performance opportunities… and some of its biggest injury risks. Advantage or damage. That’s the problem we’re really training for.
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Huge tool on our Velocity toolbox!
Ken Vick@CoachKenVickOct 14
Why are kettlebell swings a fitness staple but virtually ignored in the performance setting? When one of my former Soviet wrestlers introduced me to KB I thought it was kinda meh 🫤 But there is so much value in these posterior and rotational SSCs.
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Ken Vick@CoachKenVickOct 11
Expand your toolbox and how you think about eccentric strength. Whether it’s resistance training or SSC exercises there are a lot of ways to train the eccentric action.
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Ken Vick@CoachKenVickOct 5
Why do simple "magic bullet" solutions fail so often? This is sport👇🏻
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Varied exposure to movement problems lets young athletes explore and learn. Win!
Jeremy Frisch
@JeremyFrischOct 7
Youth athletes need specific plyometric progressions-said no kid ever! Give kids lots of different opportunities to interact with the ground and let them figure it out.
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Ken Vick@CoachKenVickOct 4
COACH TIP: calibrate your coaching eye 👁️ if you use a vbt device play a game: guess that speed. 👀Watch the lift, ⏱️estimate the speed, 📊compare against vbt. When ready, raise the stakes and say it out loud to athletes. When you’re good, they’re impressed.😎
Ken Vick@CoachKenVickOct 3
PSA: Weightlifting & powerlifting coaches have adjusted loads based on bar speed for decades. VBT didn’t create a new training method. It improved the measurement. Watch reps. Judge bar speed. Adjust the training. Now we can quantify what we’re seeing with a # on a device
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Ken Vick@CoachKenVickOct 1
Until it’s not. Games with low demand. Low minute/reserve players. Practices that don’t condition. Conditioning can build general & transferable qualities. Not different than why they need strength training beyond the game. There are both bad AND good conditioning programs
Zac Goodman
@ZacGoodman_Sep 29
Playing the Sport IS the conditioning. It’s not gassers, laps, poles, hills, etc. The S&C Program develops general and transferable Athletic qualities. The Sport conditions the athlete for the specific demands.
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Ken Vick@CoachKenVickSep 28
Tell me you haven’t seen or experienced enough and have theories without telling me: a claimed expert posts that the only way to get stronger is to lift heavy weights and only way to get faster & more explosive is plyos. They are very effective ways, but ONLY?🤔
Ken Vick@CoachKenVick6 Oct 2021
Athletic strength is more than just the weight on the barbell. We need to see strength training in; - lifting weights - throwing med balls - jumping / landing - sprinting - agility / change of direction - collision - isometrics Expand your perspective, help your athletes.
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Ken Vick@CoachKenVickSep 23
Cryotherapy is an example of how BOTH sides of evidence-based practice debate can get it wrong. Using it without understanding why is poor practice. Dismissing it because the traditional explanation is weak may be equally shortsighted. bit.ly/4xGqmde Here’s why: 🧵

‘It’s bordering on exploitation’: how pseudoscience is duping football

Cryotherapy chambers and other practices in the elite game have little evidence behind them, says Dr Claire-Marie Roberts, a top performance director

theguardian.com
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Ken Vick@CoachKenVickSep 22
Practitioners often argue about methods. Contrarian takes make social rounds. But if you want to authentically dissent, here’s 3 key parts Are you approaching ALL 3 honestly? I find few who post hot takes on socials do. But when you find these people, they are priceless.
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The multi-directional aspect is huge. Great way to extensive work around the hips and ankles for the angles they need in multi-directional movement
Ken Vick@CoachKenVickSep 3
Replying to @CoachKenVick
They allow many athletes to get earlier exposure to multiplaner movement needed in so many sports. Accumulating more time/reps at those vectors is a win in preparing for later intensive work. Great for rehab or development. 6/7
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Ken Vick@CoachKenVickSep 3
CHANGE: 1 thing that’s evolved over past decade for me; unloading deep-bounce plyos. Once I used only for rehab. Now in restoration phases, workouts & recovery tool. We don’t have to “start” with landing. 👇🏼Here’s the benefits and at the end the mistake as I often see 1/7🧵
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FYI…you don’t drop all the extensive work or move to all intensive.
Ken Vick@CoachKenVickAug 28
Replying to @CoachKenVick
Early phase should work the entire continuum from attenuating to potentiating. Middle phase have both but bias the athletes need of sport and individual. Last phase becomes specific to them maybe keeping some extensives in warmup at the other end of continuum.
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Joe Eisenmann PhD@Joe_EisenmannAug 31
Hot Off the Press: New systematic review sheds light on the 🧠psychosocial benefits of #biobanding Link to article and overview here - Take Home: Biobanding is a good strategy for youth sport 🔗joeeisenmann.substack.com/p/…
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Ken Vick@CoachKenVickAug 28
PSA: the SSC continuum is not a progression. BW drops are NOT the start & box drop plyos the finish. You can do extensive Shocks & Springs. Both potentiating & attenuating can be low level or intense. Your early extensive phase should have both, not just slow landings. 1/3 🧵
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Ken Vick@CoachKenVickAug 26
PSA: Many of us have a blind spot We’ve spent decades asking how well athletes can generate momentum. Maybe we should have spent more time asking how well they can attenuate it. Creating momentum matters. Managing it often matters just as much.
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Ken Vick@CoachKenVickAug 23
The opposite of a plyometric isn’t “non-plyometric.” It’s an eccentric action with opposite function. Plyometric: load fast to potentiate. Myometric: manage momentum & dissipate energy. Shocks ↔ Springs are a continuum of eccentric functions. Same continuum. Different jobs.
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Ken Vick@CoachKenVickAug 21
What is the opposite of a plyometric? It’s a simple question with an uncomfortable answer: We don’t really have a commonly used one. And that exposes a much bigger blind spot in how we think about eccentric training.
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Ken Vick@CoachKenVickAug 20
One eccentric action helps you win the play. The next may determine whether you survive it. Jump → rapidly load and potentiate. Land → manage the momentum you just created. Same athlete. Seconds apart. Very different eccentric demands. 🧵
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