GAIN White Papers

Go to?https://thegainnetwork.com/?and scroll down and download the PDF?s of these GAIN White papers. More will be coming over the next several months. I hope you enjoy and find them useful. Any feedback would be appreciated. Also if you are interested you can watch the opening talk of GAIN 2018.

Athletic Development – Defining the Discipline

This is my attempt to move beyond strength and conditioning and define a discipline that addresses current reality.

Developing Athletes – Why We Are Where We Are A Personal & Historical Perspective

Here I take a historical look over the past sixty years to see why we are where we are in sport and physical education today. This just scratches the surface but hopefully will stimulate thought and put it all in a historical context.

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Vern Gambetta

Director at Gambetta Sports Training Systems

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.

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Athletic Development Coach, Educator & Consultant. Founder of GAIN Network. Proud dad. Love to read everything.

RT @VSPEducation: Lots of talk on frontside mechanics to get more force into ground. Generate it with the thigh drive Transmit it with kine… - 3 hours ago

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