DIGITAL SUPPLEMENT
Ready for Blast Off
in the cover story of the november issue of
Training & Conditioning, five college strength
coaches offered some of their thoughts on training explosiveness. But there just wasn't enough room to include all the interesting information and tips they had to offer. so we are presenting more here in our first T&C e-zine.
While most of the discussion focuses on explosiveness, we also take a look at other, more general, areas of strength training. in addition, we have audio excerpts of the actual interviews with these coaches along with video of some of the workouts used at stanford University.
By Dennis ReaD Dennis Read is an Associate Editor at Training & Conditioning. He can be reached at: dr@MomentumMedia.com. 2 T&C E-ZINE NOVEMBER 2011 TRAINING-CONDITIONING.COM
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Shannon Turley, STanford unIVerSITy
Shannon Turley, CSCC, CSCS, is the Sports Performance Coordinator at Stanford University, where he oversees performance enhancement training, nutrition education, and sports psychology for the Cardinal football team.
You have said that for explosive training to be effective athletes must perform their exercises quickly. How do you make sure athletes keep working as fast as they can?
First we're going to control the intensity to make sure that it's reasonable. Second, we monitor it with a Tendo unit, which gives us feedback based on the velocity reading in meters per second so I can judge how fast the bar is moving. It really gives us tremendous feedback about the quality of our work.
VIDEO: Explosive
lifts in the Stanford weightroom
