Athletic Lab Audio Inventory

Bob Alejo is a 35-year strength and conditioning and administrative veteran at the collegiate, professional, and Olympic levels. Currently the Director of Sports Science for Power Lift, Coach Alejo has directed strength and conditioning collegiately at CSU Chico, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and North Carolina State University (Assistant AD). Professionally, he served 12 years as the Director of the Oakland A’s (during the “Moneyball” era) and twice as a member of the U.S. Olympic team: Beijing in 2008 with a gold medal in Men’s Beach Volleyball, and London in 2012 (simplifaster.com) Photo courtesy of Anna Hiatt (annahiatt.com)

Reactive strength index (RSI) is a metric we use to help assess an athlete's elasticity. In this first ever live-streamed episode, Drake, John, and Greg discuss how it's used and what to do with the information collected from an RSI testing protocol. The guys also discuss how different box heights can affect an athlete's RSI, and how having an outstanding RSI doesn't mean you're automatically an outstanding athlete. To see the unedited video from the live-stream, go to www.facebook.com/athleticlab (give our page a "like" while you're there too)

John, Drake, and Greg talk about common weaknesses seen in beginners and how to address them, followed by weaknesses and challenges in more advanced populations. Finally, the coaches talk about where in training it is appropriate to work on correcting weaknesses.

Bob Alejo recently stopped by for a guest lecture with our interns and staff. Bob spoke about his philosophy on Power Cleans and whether or not it is necessary to catch a clean or just utilize pulling variations. Very interesting topic and somewhat of a hot debate for many coaches in the industry.

Mike, Drake, and Greg discuss how we program our Performance Fitness (CrossFit) program from the general population pursuing a healthy lifestyle to the athlete looking to compete in the sport of CrossFit.

In a final Q&A with Dr. Mike Young, the summer interns ask him about his coaching career, training, traveling, and more.

Pete Friesen recently stopped by for a guest lecture with our interns and staff. In all honesty this audio is probably not the best way to get this information as there was a lot of hands on stuff going on with demonstrations. If you have the time, go to facebook.com/athleticlab to view the full video and get all the visuals!

Drake Webster, Matt Hunter, and Mike Young talk about how to still get quality training done when your athlete has an injury.

John Evans talks about quanitifying the intensity of plyometrics

Coach Matt Hunter discusses why a Sprinter would put an importance on Pull-Ups in his/her training.

In this week's episode, we sit down with our summer interns and talk to them about their experience at Athletic Lab this summer. If you're interested in learning more about an internship at Athletic Lab, go to www.athleticlab.com/contact/internship-opportunities/

So you've administered the YoYo test to your athlete and got a score, but how do you use that score to program your training? Coach Greg recently took to anchor to touch on a few key things to think about so you're not just testing the YoYo for no reason.

Episode 2 of "Discussions in the Lab" is up on YouTube NOW. Matt Hunter, Greg Gustin, and John Evans talk about how to prioritize your training when time with your athlete(s) is limited.

In this first episode of "Discussions in the Lab", Mike Young, Greg Gustin, and John Evans discuss a track athlete that is a stud in training but can't replicate those performances when it really counts, in competition. Find out why this may be the case and how to begin to fix it.

Episode 11 features James Baker. James is a Physical Education teacher and Strength Coach for St. Peter's High School in Gloucester, UK. At St. Peter's James developed the Elite Performance Pathway (EPP), a system focusing on the development of youth athletes in the school system and developing strength, speed, power, and agility from the ground up. James also owns Proformance, a performance company focusing on sport training and high level educational content for sport scientists and coaches.

Dan is the Head Jumps and Multi-Event Coach at Altis in Phoenix, Arizona. Dan has coached multiple Olympic medalists including 100m Olympic champion and world record holder Donovan Bailey, with his most recent medalist coming in 2012 with long jumper Greg Rutherford. Dan has also coached at famed collegiate programs including LSU, University of Texas, and the University of Florida.

Part 2 of a two-part series on all things sprinting with Mike Young. Part 2 discusses ways to apply the current research on sprinting on the track and in the weight room. Discussions include general guidelines on sprint volume and rest, how to autoregulate the sprint session based on speed decrement, the importance of max strength and elastic qualities, why we need the ability to produce both concentric and eccentric forces and how to train those qualities, and ways to reduce overuse injuries

Sprints Q&A with Mike Young - Part 1 of 2. This podcast features discussions on sprint speed for track and field and court sports, posture as it related to the athlete's ability to apply force and sprint, and the debate on horizontal vs. vertical forces in sprinting and some of the research debunked.

Dan Baker is a strength and power coach, researcher, and educator. Dan has a PhD in sport science specializing in velocity based training, and strength and power training. Dan was the strength coach for the Brisbane Broncos for nearly 20 years and won league titles in 1997, 1998, 2000, and 2006. Dan also serves as the president of the Australian Strength and Conditioning Association. This podcast will discuss many aspects of velocity based training protocols and his experiences with the technology over the course 20 plus years.

Keith Scruggs is a PhD student and Performance Coach at the University of South Carolina. Keith earned his Master's from East Tennessee State University working under Dr. Mike and Dr. Meg Stone. Keith has also served as a Performance Coach at the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center working with the Bobsled and Skeleton athletes.