The role of a Strength and Conditioning coach is not to improve 1 RMs in the weight room.
This is the biggest lie our field has fallen for and athletes are paying the price.
Either through injury or never reaching their full potential.
Our role is to prepare athletes for the demands of their sport.
To build the physical qualities necessary for them to succeed at the highest level possible.
If we think building a 1 RM back squat reflects the demands of sport, we clearly don’t understand how force works. (F=MxA)
Sports are dominated by eccentric demands, utilization of stretch shortening cycle abilities and rapid force production.
We need to train the range of contraction types we see in sport, the speed at which force has to be produced concentric and eccentrically.
Building strength expressed by an athletes squat, clean and bench are great and play a role. But don’t miss the bigger picture behind all of this.
Our systems must be deeper than that.
The athletes are the ones paying the price when we don’t take the time to question our own biases, methods and systems to ask if they are truly accomplishing what we think they are.
Huge speed PR for @evan._.dunn last week that resulted in her getting to put her name on the 18 MPH sign! 18.3 MPH with the new goal of 19! We are so proud of you Evan! ⚡️
