This week’s guest is Andy Eggerth, head track coach at Kennesaw State University where he works primarily with multi-event athletes. Andy is also a coaching educator as he is an instructor for the USTFCCCA Coaches Academy and has written the physiology curriculum. I first found Andy through an incredible presentation of his on a variety of restoration means for speed and power athletes through the USTFCCCA website.

Andy has been a contribute to Just Fly Sports in the past with a fantastic Q&A on the subject of lactate in speed-power development. It’s kind of counter-intuitive to think that some athletes might actually need a small to moderate dose of speed-endurance work to be at their fastest, or jump highest, but as long as I’ve been a coach, I’ve seen this in action (many of those years without knowing exactly why) for over a decade now.

Andy does such a great job of taking physiology and making it interesting in regards to the demands of sport. If my exercise science courses in school were more like the work Andy does, I would have been a kid on Christmas day for each class.

For the podcast today, Andy expands on some points he covered in his original article on Lactate, and also covers a lot of other important topics, such as individualization of training, career and seasonal periodization, potentiation, neurotransmitters, plyometrics, and more. This episode is one of the best blends of science and practice that I’ve been able to record, as Andy is such a tremendous resource in this area.

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