Jesse Curtis Episode 73 "In season Training Organization: American Football‪"‬ From the Ground Up Athletic Performance Podcast

On this episode I sat down to discuss my newly published article In Season Training Organization: American Football Available at From the Ground Up Athletic performance.com. The aim of the original article was to inform individuals on how I program a 15 week cycle in season, by utilizing block programming prescription to keep all qualities at a high level. The episode features talking points about the different zones that I utilize (Strength, Strength-speed, Speed-Strength, Peaking or speed) as well as the methods employed for each zone. I discuss the usage of a variety of workout styles such as French contrast, which is where heavy compound lifts are attached to more explosive jump or plyometric auxiliary pieces. Within the episode there is a 15 week skeleton provided in regards to the implementation of blocks based upon the concept of residual training effects. 

Residual training effects help practitioners insure that they don't let qualities decay beyond repair in a pivotal time such as the in season. Within the episode I share the residual training effects for a variety of qualities and also help to provide rationale on when you would want to arrange training to avoid drop offs. It's a good idea to model training for specific populations, I believe there are certain general qualities that need to be developed in all populations. However, if you want to fully serve your athletes you need to do a needs assessment to understand the characteristics of the game. A need's assessment can take into account a variety of factors. Firstly, it can help inform you on the needs of the sport, such as the dominant energy system utilized within competition. A needs assessment can also help you understand the plyometric nature as well as movement characteristics prevalent within the sport. Within a contact sport such as football it's impossible to avoid all injuries, but understanding the major risk that are associated with each sport can help you leverage your training to account for the issues to the best of your ability. 

Another important factor shared is the idea of taking into account the effect past training has on future performance. The episode features a flow model based upon the banister model, where individuals can access past training and how it positively or negatively influences a performance test or parameter. With this data in hand we can make better decisions on the needs of future training solutions and predict performance outcomes. All training sessions are going to have some level of positive or negative training effects associated with them the positive training effects tend to stick around longer and are more closely tied to residual effects, where negative effects are shorter and are associated with residual fatigue. It's important that we balance the positive and negative aspects especially in light of future performance. Will residual fatigue  accumulated for sessions work itself out of the system to allow for optimal performance? At this point in the conversation I shared a portion of the high low model of Francis  and I extend the rationale that it's important to provide windows as well as methods for recovery from high intensity prescriptions. Fatigue is an area that I didn't feature as much in the original write up and I wanted to make sure to share the considerations for fatigue and how to avoid unnecessary fatigue at a pivotal time. 

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