Alex Calder is the Head of Sports Science at Houston Dynamo’s Sports Performance team.

Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, the then 17-year-old Alex received a scholarship in North Dakota. There, Alex competed for a Division II college, where he also learned about the ins and outs of sports management before returning home after two years of studying.

As Alex continued to work on his ASCA certification and Bachelor’s in Exercise & Sports Science, he continued to coach in a private facility during the day while training himself in the afternoons and playing on the weekends.

His passion and hard work soon saw him flying back to the US, where he became an Intern Sports Performance Coach at Purdue University and an Assistant Sports Performance Coach at the University of Louisville.

Alex retired from football in 2015 to focus on his career as a Sports Performance practitioner.

And today at Houston Dynamo, Alex deals with all aspects of player monitoring, working in conjunction with many departments to ensure the health and fitness of players and athletes.

Alex joins me today to share his philosophy in training soccer players to compete for higher levels. He highlights the power of mastering the basics and illustrates his approach to program design both in and off-season.

He discusses what Blood Flow Restriction training is and how it works in accelerating adaptation and recovery, as well as breaking down the 30-15-15-15 Protocol.

And last but not least, he highlights the power of dissecting a sport and its impact on everything from designing a program to analyzing the frequency of a specific injury in a sport.

Analyze the sport and what players need to compete at top levels at that sport. It’s our job to dissect and investigate what adaptations we need to give the players. – Alex Calder

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In my Private Online Coaching you’ll work with me directly to design a training program that is specific to your unique needs and goals.

Every month you’ll get an updated workout to make sure the program is challenging, and we’ll communicate back and forth to make sure your technique is on point, and that you’re making progress each and every month.

A second option would be my RTS Annual Training Group. In this program we go through four, 3-month phases of training:

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