Athletic Lab Audio Inventory

In this episode....

1. Background

2. Publishing papers on Cluster training

3. What is the mechanism by which Cluster Training overcomes fatigue?

4. A case for traditional training methods for hypertrophy

5. Standardizing the language in Cluster training publications

6. Can you differentiate and describe protocols that have been used as a cluster in scientific community?

7. Which protocol do you recommend?

8. Acute effects on strength, power, and hypertrophy using clusters? Data on chronic effects?

9. What is the most appropriate time of training year to use clusters?

10. Time efficiency and other possible drawbacks of cluster sets

11. Reporting variables of training such as average and peak power and velocities

12. Would you totally abolish traditional structures?

13. Future research on clusters

14. How to connect with James Tufano

Bob Alejo is a 35-year strength and conditioning and administrative veteran at the collegiate, professional, and Olympic levels. Currently the Director of Sports Science for Power Lift, Coach Alejo has directed strength and conditioning collegiately at CSU Chico, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and North Carolina State University (Assistant AD). Professionally, he served 12 years as the Director of the Oakland A’s (during the “Moneyball” era) and twice as a member of the U.S. Olympic team: Beijing in 2008 with a gold medal in Men’s Beach Volleyball, and London in 2012 (simplifaster.com)

Photo courtesy of Anna Hiatt (annahiatt.com)

Reactive strength index (RSI) is a metric we use to help assess an athlete's elasticity. In this first ever live-streamed episode, Drake, John, and Greg discuss how it's used and what to do with the information collected from an RSI testing protocol. The guys also discuss how different box heights can affect an athlete's RSI, and how having an outstanding RSI doesn't mean you're automatically an outstanding athlete.

To see the unedited video from the live-stream, go to www.facebook.com/athleticlab (give our page a "like" while you're there too)

John, Drake, and Greg talk about common weaknesses seen in beginners and how to address them, followed by weaknesses and challenges in more advanced populations. Finally, the coaches talk about where in training it is appropriate to work on correcting weaknesses.

Bob Alejo recently stopped by for a guest lecture with our interns and staff. Bob spoke about his philosophy on Power Cleans and whether or not it is necessary to catch a clean or just utilize pulling variations. Very interesting topic and somewhat of a hot debate for many coaches in the industry.

Mike, Drake, and Greg discuss how we program our Performance Fitness (CrossFit) program from the general population pursuing a healthy lifestyle to the athlete looking to compete in the sport of CrossFit.

In a final Q&A with Dr. Mike Young, the summer interns ask him about his coaching career, training, traveling, and more.

Pete Friesen recently stopped by for a guest lecture with our interns and staff. In all honesty this audio is probably not the best way to get this information as there was a lot of hands on stuff going on with demonstrations. If you have the time, go to facebook.com/athleticlab to view the full video and get all the visuals!

Drake Webster, Matt Hunter, and Mike Young talk about how to still get quality training done when your athlete has an injury.

John Evans talks about quanitifying the intensity of plyometrics