More than 10 years ago, I met Joe Dowdell at a workshop at the late Dr. Mel Siff’s house in Colorado. I knew Joe was extremely knowledgeable from the beginning – he had been to more workshops/seminars/training than just about anyone I knew – but I didn’t become aware until later just how successful as a trainer and businessman he was. All it took was one visit to his gym in Manhattan to see Joe knew what he was doing not just when it came to training people, but also how to build a tremendously successful training business from the ground up.
In the first of a series of recommended reading lists from those in the field I respect, friend and physical preparation coach Mladen Jovanović has compiled a great source list for anyone looking to further their education in the physiology, fitness, performance, and nutrition fields. With so much misinformation out there, being able to skip over the wrong information and cut straight to the right information is incredibly important if you want to stay on top of the strength, conditioning, and fitness world. I wouldn’t be putting this list on the site if I didn’t know it would help everyone do exactly that.
This week marks the second week of Tim Boetsch’s training camp for his upcoming fight in UFC 130 and I’ve just posted the first article in the series on training management. As you can see from reading the article, I’m going to be getting into great detail on just how dynamic the process is and how important it is to manage it on a daily and weekly basis.
The article series will be the first time I’ve ever shown exactly how I use heart rate variability technology to effectively manage the training process and I think it will really open up people’s eyes to understand that assessment and programming is not the entire equation, you also have to manage the program as you work through it as well. This is really what separates the most effective training programs, as well as the best coaches, from everything and everyone else.
Lately I’ve been neck deep in research and discussions with various people on the subject of overtraining, so I wanted to take a few minutes to post my latest thoughts on the subject. First, I’ve used HRV for the last 10+ years on well over 500 athletes of all levels from probably more than 20 different sports, so this area is of particular interest to me. With the growing use of HRV and research on the subject in the last few years, I think this is an area where more and more questions will be answered down the road. For now though, I think there is still more confusion than answers.
Back in 1998, I participated in an event called The Ultimate Warrior Challenge in the Vancouver area. I’d been fighting NHB for less than a year and I was looking to get as much experience as I could. I was asked to fight a guy nameded Dennis Hallman and at that time you never really knew much about your opponents –there wasn’t any youtube or fighter databases.
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If you’ve read my book then you already know I’m a big advocate of heart rate variability and it’s a technology I’ve used in the training of all of my athletes for about ten years now. To be honest, I’m so used to the information that it provides me that I don’t know how I’d train anyone without it. Knowing exactly where an individual is on the fatigue-recovery-supercompensation curve is absolutely invaluable. Although most aren’t aware of the research done using HRV, there is actually a wide variety of research out there that confirms exactly what I’ve found over the years.
After reading “The Molecular Bases of Training Adaptation” review by Vernon G. Coffey and John A Hawley. I realized that this slightly older review did not mention another method the PGC-1a “master switch” was activated to create local aerobic adaptations. Those adaptations being the following …
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