Today’s episode features sport performance coach and consultant, Walt Cline.  He is the founder of AMPS Training Systems.  Coach Cline has served as an assistant athletics coach, private coach and consultant to teams and programs at multiple levels in the USA. His athletic projects include thousands of prospective scholastic athletes, collegiate athletes and professional athletes.  Cline's work and contracts are based primarily on movement biomechanics, team Sports, throwing & striking sports, speed development, strength & conditioning and curriculum design.

Our chat revolves around Walt’s arrangement of training, which features block and roll-over arrangement of three distinct training days: strength-endurance, strength and velocity.  I first learned of Walt’s work about 6 years ago, and found his approach to periodization, potentiation and cluster training unique and insightful. Walt is one of those guys you haven’t heard much about, since he is not very active on social media, but his experiences, mentors and knowledge of speed and power development is of an extremely high level.  

I’ve always been a huge training organization and structure guy.  I won’t write out a whole season before I get there, but I like frameworks and ideas for arranging training that make sense.  I am always thrilled to see a system of training in place that makes complex ideas simple, and helps me to understand what is doing on with my athletes, and how to better give them what they need as a season unfolds.  

In this episode, Walt gives a thorough explanation of his workout classification, which works on a color system, and matches what is happening on the track and in the weightroom.  It has resemblance to training structures such as the Cube system, as well as Dan Pfaff’s 3-day rollover, but is free-flowing and easily adaptable to any situation. Simply having an idea of how Walt does program design is sure to give any coach great ideas on how to make what they are doing even better.

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