I recently saw the seminar videos by Dan Pfaff
mentioned at Brian
McCormick blog (if you are a basketball coach, or any other coach Brian’s blog is a must read/follow). Although
I was familiar with Dan Pfaff before through some free available PDFs online, I
never saw him lecturing. That was a damn mistake.
Although T&F coach, Dan goes into a lot
of problems/phenomena when training power athletes, with some team sport mentioning.
The most interesting concepts he covers is the distinction between (event) endurance
and work capacity with some examples from team sports (you can check Brian’s
blog for more info on this). Also, one VERY interesting thing I tried to
conceptualize for a long time Dan very neatly explains by using what he calls chronic
load syndrome and acute relieving syndrome and how they
influence 4 phases of adaptation/motor learning: stimulate, adapt, stabilize, and actualize. This
is very clear example that human body is complex system and it doesn’t behave
in linear/mechanical way we would expect to behave (as explained with some
great examples of Olympic champions by Dan).
I highly suggest checking the videos and then
proceeding to Brian’s blog. Here
are all the parts.
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