This is my attempt to summarize the essence of sprinting. Nothing complicated, just the basics. No need to complicate. Let’s start with a generic definition of speed. According to the…
Author: Vern Gambetta
Vern Gambetta
Vern is the Director of Gambetta Sports Training Systems. He has been the a conditioning coach for several MLS teams as well as the conditioning consultant to the US Men's World Cup Soccer team. Vern is the former Director of Conditioning for the Chicago White Sox and New York Mets. He has lectured and conducted clinics in Canada, Japan, Australia and Europe and has authored six books and over one hundred articles related to coaching and sport performance in a variety of sports. He has a BA in teaching with a coaching minor and an MA in Education with an emphasis in physical education from Stanford University.
I have told this story many times in presentations and in various podcasts. It deserves to be retold to underscore the lesson I learned many years ago and is reinforced…
“Sometimes in the peaking process, it is not what you do, it is what you don’t do.” John Larralde, track coach speaking at GAIN on preparing his milers to win…
The most common default when making the choice between more work or less work in training is to do more volume. After all it is easier to quantify more jumps,…
Warm-up and cooldown are essential parts of the whole training process. It is helpful to think of the warm-up as preparation for training and cooldown as a reset to prepare…