This week’s guest on the Pacey Performance Podcast is Rett Larson, strength and conditioning coach for the German women’s national volleyball team. He’s previously coached the Dutch and Chinese women’s volleyball teams, and worked for EXOS Athlete Performance for seven years. Prior to that, he learned his trade coaching younger athletes in strength training between the ages of 8 and 18 in Southern California.
Rett’s here to talk about warming up, cooling down, and why it can pay to coach younger athletes before moving on to adult-aged coaching. As well as the benefits of experience, coaches can really see how to engage with a group and notice the smaller performance details. With warming up, Rett is an expert in this field gives key advice on how to design effective warm ups, structure sessions, and why keeping things ‘messy’ can be more beneficial.
Rett also discusses cool downs, again discussing how to structure such sessions, keep the coach’s own ego in check relating to athletes’ attitude towards them, and how to maintain attention once the main training session is over. He also provides some bonus advice on percussive therapy devices, and the ones he uses. To learn all this and much more, hit the play button now.
This week’s topics:
How to individualise training and nutrition in team sports with Mike Potenza (Director of Strength & Conditioning at San Jose Sharks)
Load management and GPS. Are we missing a piece of the puzzle (?) with Tim Doyle (Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University)
Team sport nutrition, half-time refueling strategies and pre-season vs in-season fueling with Marc Bubbs (Performance Nutrition Lead at Men's Canada Basketball)
Predicting hamstring injuries, reducing hamstring injury risk and hamstring injury rehab with Josh Ruddy, Ryan Timmins & Jack Hickey
Working with paraylympic athletes; creativity, mental health and what training really looks like with Tom Paulson & Luke Sweet
How ready are you athletes to train? HRV, questionnaires and sleep hygiene with Erik Korem (Associate Athletics Director of Student-Athlete High Performance at the College of William and Mary)
Breaking down silos within performance and technical staff with Kyle Skinner (Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach for Olympic Sports at Notre Dame)
Maximising athlete recovery and sleep, and appraising current technology with Shona Halson (Associate Professor at Australian Catholic University)
Hamstring injuries; mechanisms, issues with traditional rehab and reducing injury risk with Jack Hickey (Lecturer in Musculoskeletal & Sports Injury Rehabilitation at ACU)
Benefits and risks of early specialisation in late specialisation sports with Luke Jenkinson (Head of Academy Sports Science & Medicine at Derby County FC)
Embracing chaos and making better decisions in the rehabilitation process with Jarrod Wade (Head of Performance at South Sydney Rabbitohs)
How can the industry do better to create more 'job-ready' graduate coaches with Steve Ingham (Performance Consultant and Director of Supporting Champions)
Working as a strength & conditioning coach in a foreign country with Dave Howarth (Head of Athletic Development at Connacht Rugby)
Lessons learnt from working as a sports scientist in the NFL and MLB with Dave Regan (Former Sports Science Coordinator at the Miami Dolphins and Performance Consultant)
Developing the most influential apps in sports science and what's next with Carlos Balsalobre (Lecturer at UAM Madrid and App Developer)
Training load monitoring in rugby union and managing player workloads in-season with Tom Batchelor (Lead Sports Scientist and Conditioning Coach at Harlequins Rugby)
Working with the countries most promising young football players at Arsenal academy with Paudie Roche (Academy Strength & Conditioning Coach at Arsenal Football Club)
Force vector myth, coaching weightlifting with athletes and spotting movement errors with Dan Cleather (Programme Leader for the MSc in S&C at St Mary's University)
The control-choas continuum; the process, weekly structures, and injury specificity with Matt Taberner (Head of Rehabilitation at Everton Football Club)
The acute chronic workload ratio; magic cut offs and questionable metrics with Franco Impellizzeri (Professor of Sport and Exercise Science and Medicine at UTS)
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