Why Sports Teams Should Not Condition Their Athletes
Sport coaches LOVE fast athletes, yet their “conditioning” promotes just the opposite.
Athletes need to spend their time developing speed, strength, and power. “Conditioning” should come from high intensity sport practices and build deeper into the season.
Conditioning frequently will result in slower athletes, frequent overuse injuries, and athletes “saving” themselves during practice for the grueling running at the end.
Instead develop speed properly, sprint instead of condition, and reinforce proper mechanics and you may just find higher efforts during practice and athletes who truly LOVE their sport. Not to mention, more time to work on the actual skill acquisition of their sport.
More is not better. Better is better. Sprint 1-2x a week as fast as possible, as fresh as possible and you’ll have a faster team that wins more games.
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Darren was born and raised in Pocatello and graduated from Highland High School in 2010. While attending Utah State he was the facilitator/founder of the USU Strength and Conditioning program that served over 150 students and athletes each semester. During this time he also competed nationally in Olympic Weightlifting and has since been named a National Coach for the United States Of America Weightlifting Association.
After receiving his degree in Exercise Science he spent a year in Salt Lake City learning from the S&C coaches at the University of Utah while growing his online coaching platform that currently houses athletes from all over the world.
Darren took his first opportunity to move back to Pocatello to open up a physical location for HansenAthletics with a focus on providing an individualized coaching experience that takes a performance-based approach to develop proper movement patterns, strength, and pain-free movement that has a direct carry over to life and sport. Through nearly a decade of coaching, he has worked with a wide array of clients and has experience with all ages and ability levels.
BS Exercise Science, CSCS, USAW National Coach, CrossFit L1, FreeMotion, Power Athlete Methodology, Power Athlete Block 1
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