Entries by dazdrake

What’s all the fuss about Velocity Based Training??!!

Last week I had the pleasure of spending the morning with my former lecturer Dr. Iain Fletcher.  I love popping in to see ”Fletch” who oversees the BSc in Strength and Conditioning at University of Bedfordshire, is an external examiner for a number of Universities and is also a Tutor and Assessor for the UKSCA. […]

Do these drills and you’ll get Faster!!!

Hey Everybody! In this week’s Blog I am going to give you some examples of the Speed DRILLS that APA use to get our athletes Faster. I take a lot of time at the front end to make sure that the athlete and coach understand what type of speed quality we are working on.  This […]

How to Get Faster- what does world class look like?

In this week’s blog we are summarising some of the points I made on my recent Episode 7 of Daz Dee TV. A lot of the content is already for everybody to see on this website so I’ll save myself some time and tell you all to go to the Education section of the website […]

How to write a Strength Training Programme

In this week’s blog I take you through the three elements you must consider when designing a Strength training programme. Three types of Strength– muscular endurance, maximal strength and maximal power Seven types of Exercise classification Five components of a training session Three Types of Strength This links to a previous episode of Daz Dee […]

How to write an Annual Plan for Dummies

In this blog I am going to be summarising the latest Episode of Daz Dee TV- Episode 5 Periodisation. I am slowly getting better at giving the elevator pitch- the 30-second summary of what APA’s Training Philosophy is all about.  Only this week I had decided to put a four page summary up on the […]

Why Masters degree graduates are still on Minimum Wage!

It’s getting to the final stages of the academic year for many under graduates and post graduates.  I have a number of interns working within Athletic Performance Academy and it got me thinking about what kind of opportunities there are on the horizon for them as they go into the job market. So this post […]

Peak Height Velocity- Maturity Estimation Calculation

Why is Peak Height Velocity (PHV) important? For many years I have tracked the height of the young athletes I work with.  I would do it by simply observing how many centimetres each year an athlete had grown.  I was taught that a typical amount of growth per year for a child was around 5cm. […]

Child to Champion 2017 Conference Review

Last weekend, I attended the Child to Champion LTAD conference in Gloucester. It was hosted by ProFormance which is run in the UK by James Baker & in the US by Mike Young.  For those of you who couldn’t make it please find below a few bullet-point notes from the sessions I attended.  I will go […]

Motor Learning Concepts all coaches need to know about

Streamed live on 18 Nov 2015 Dr. Mike Young: Motor Learning Concepts All Coaches Should Know & Understand I encourage everyone to have a look at this webinar.  Below are the summary notes I have written having watched it myself. What is Skill? In the field, ”be able to accomplish a task with great movement efficiency.” […]