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Everything you need to know about running from injuries, building volume,
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The coaches delve into how to decipher which strength protocols to select
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It’s been a turbulent couple of months within the sport of CrossFit. Phil,
Jowsey and Jemma discuss what’s been going on and what the future of the
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How do you know when your athlete is ready to go back to sport? What are the criteria and the thought processes behind us as coaches and how we allow athletes to return to sport? When do you allow them to go back to training and what is involved in that decision process?
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In this episode, Phil, James, and Jemma discuss flexibility, stability, and how the two exist within motion. They chat about why flexibility and stability are difficult topics to research in tandem, how to assess them in isolation with athletes, strategies about identifying how they exist within motion, how to separate them out to see them within motion, and what strategies to use to help people with deficits in either area.
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Everything about how RedPill Generic — how it came about, the work behind
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Culture in Sport
Different sports display different cultural characteristics.
Phil Mansfield and James Jowsey explore their experience of different sports to highlight the varying cultures in each one. From sportswear to admitting injury, every sport is different. Is there an opportunity to learn from one another?
IntroâŠ
One of the things that fascinates me the most.
One sport proves you can do it, one sport says you canât.
Everyone thinks they look good in their sports kit.
18:00
Culture of training
25:00
Benefits of multi sports training camps
26:00
CrossFit Athletes competing at the Weightlifting Commonwealth Games
34:00
Ability to lose
35:00
Cultural Injury in sport
Pain threshold â can it be trained through the culture of sport?
51:00
Display of pain in different sports
53:00
What is the worlds toughest / hardest sport?
58:41
What is the best dressed sport?
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Phil Mansfield and James Jowsey discuss strength training. This is for coaches and athletes struggling to increase their numbers even though they are putting in the work and time during strength training.
If youâre not getting the return on investment for time invested, then we need to look at why.
Intro
Thereâs not necessarily much difference in strength cycles â just the way they are sold. People would like you to believe the way they write 4x8 is different to mine but itâs not.
Most strength cycles have similar aspects. The critical features are the same. The neurological stimulus they are going after are very similar.
7:55
The biggest issue with strength training is how we measure it. How many kilos of weight does athlete move from point a from point b not how much force, there is an incredible difference between the two.You are actually moving more weight during a 200-kilo squat than you are a 400-kilo leg press because of where they weight is in relation to the centre of mass.
29:00
Coaches are scared to make a decision. They want to be told what to do. What do I do in this situation?The manager of the football team ultimately has to decide what tactics. He has to understand the players etc to make that decision.
In the CrossFit world we have to understand the athlete to allow us to make the right decision. Understand their body, energy systems, joints etc..
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How do you know? Do you need a strength cycle or help with positioning? -
Talk the Torque
I would like to help people get through the apparent misunderstandings of torque and understand it from a scientific point of view.
Why is it important to understand, what is its role for us as coaches? How is it researched?
2.15
Itâs just energy.
If you fire water through a tube it creates energy and creates pressure against the outside of the tube.
3.05
The scientific definition
âA torque acting on a body is created by a force acting a distance away from the axis of rotation.â
Axis of rotation in a gym setting⊠a bicep curl is the elbow.
The forces are the key component within the torque concept. Without the forces there canât be a torque.
None Contact Forces
Gravity
Contact Forces
Ground reaction force
Joint reaction forcesFriction
Fluid resistance
Air resistance
Inertial force
Muscle force
Elastic force
7.50
Itâs a big topic there are some many different avenues. We could talk about the biomechanical route, muscular route, length / tension ⊠this might be two podcasts.
9.20 Digital Human Modelling Paper.
13.30
EMG vs Torque are 2 completely different topics
16.00
Muscles force â Achilles tendon
20.30
We can see from the biomechanical studies these forces iniitate motionâŠ
Torque is the final energy.
29.00
It touches on strength vs technique
The application of squat training, the reason people do a box squat trying to keep a vertical shin⊠when we look at the bone motions the centre of mass has changed. The vertical shin is creating a greater torque than allowing the knee to drift forward. The reason people get stronger by doing box squats is because you have changed the torque on your body, you are overcoming more weight even though there is less weight on the barâŠ
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2:30
How do you get to understand your athlete? How much is too much? how much is not enough? Both In terms of weekly volume, level of fatigue, optimal performance for the athlete.
2:40
Acute / Chronic balance
What theyâre doing today against what they have been doing over a period of time.
3:43
Start by defining Acute / Chronic
4:43
I use a 42-day past and 7 days presentâŠ
5:30
Knowing what the year looks like and the phase focus allows us to see where the stresses are coming.
6:30
Measurement Tools:
âą Heart rate
âą Wattage
âą Calories burnt (poor indicator but is used)
âą Work effort / how much load youâre putting through the system in the day
âą Acceleration
âą Deceleration
âą Change of direction
âą Blood values
That data set is ultimately how hard Iâve worked in that day.
Essentially youâre a detective. I even use body language and tonality / how the athlete communicates with youâŠ
11:13
That is the game, everything stems from this question.
The most important thing we do is balance acute / chronic
12:32
Unlike the science of gravity when you drop something out of our hand and 100% of the time it will hit the floor, when it comes to a training response, the bodies adaptation to sport and demand⊠in all the studies that we read across the different parameters from injuries to performance we donât see 100 out of 100, we donât see 100%.
14:51
Sleep is another parameter ⊠and an important one.
17:05
The question is how do you get the balance right?
Communication with the athlete is crucial. Performance can be sub optimal because of fatigue.
Missed timed or purely communicated and the athlete will panic when they are not hitting their numbers.
20:34
How do we manage, how do you know when is too much?
27:00
The goal is to be practicing your sport as much as possible. When monitoring your athlete, youâll quite often give them more work? What makes you go that way?
I use acute / chronic for performance not injury prevention.
The simplicity of this is itâs just listening to the athlete and getting as much information from them as you can get. I expect messages from my athlete 5/6 times a day giving me feedback, if weâre not in camp.
30:38
Weâre not dealing with machines, computers. We, as humans, are variable.
The science of training vs the human
The athletes donât need to understand, they just need to provide the data (e.g. heart rate, squat numbers etc) Itâs your job as a coach to interpret the data.
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Insights into the differences between coaching at Weightlifting and CrossFit competitions.
2:34
You have some cool experiences over the last year or so, that have opened your eyes to different approaches across cultures in sport⊠relative to weightlifting in CrossFit, in particular.
Youâve been working in CrossFit with myself, helping me out, well working together with our athletes and helping them to develop and a big part of CrossFit is Olympic weightlifting and youâve recently been to the weightlifting world championships in Turkmenistan with Sara and came back with⊠it was an eye-opening experience. What were your first impressions of being in that environment??
8:00
So, are you saying, then, that thereâs a different in what youâve experienced in CrossFit vs the Weightlifting (coaching) environment?
10:20
The coachâs perspective that you talk about, the coach, on competition day, the coach in that middle range field of athlete needs to feel like they are helping the athlete whereas the experienced coach isnât necessarily doing as much technical work. What kind of thing did you experience there (at the Weightlifting WC)?
16:05
You had experiences of countries who did overcoach, on the whole what type of coaching did you experience from the ones who were doing it right?
22:16
How does your experience at the weightlifting world cup compare to your experiences at CrossFit, in the short time youâve been going to competitions there?
26:56
Do you think, within CrossFit that process of pausing during weightlifting coaching comes from the ⊠because CrossFit encompasses the power lifting elements, so they then use the elements of training from other sports to gain strength⊠do they are bring it in but then potentially negating the actualâŠ..
28:32
Within CrossFit itself, the programming dictates that guys need to be able to cycle a barbell but the side effect is they are not going to do a max velocity hip explosion with every rep because itâs going to send the heart rate through the roof send then the work out will feel a lot harder⊠so they are operating at that sub maximal output so they can sustain the workload.
Thereâs a video that might still be on YouTube somewhere where Sam Briggs goes against one of the Commonwealth weightlifters from Wales and they have an âIsabelle offâ, the Olympic weightlifter sets off like sheâs doing a one rep max and the intent for the 1st3 reps is that same as sheâs trained⊠and it quickly dies off and the technique breaks down⊠whereas Sam does it in sub 1.40 and every rep looks the same, its nowhere near as powerful but itâs just that level below max that the CrossFitter needs.Video: https://www.facebook.com/michaelabreezeweightliftingcoach/videos/249076878603084/
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Olympic weightlifting on the Skill vs Threshold is closer to darts⊠-
A conversation, Skill vs Threshold.
The way oxygen works and moves around the body and how we strategize different energy systemsâŠIâm purposely avoiding the word âaerobicâ because there is a skill element to it and a more power element to how oxygen is used around the body. Weâre going to go a little bit technical at points but also give some really good take home elements that you can apply to your training and as coaches get something from it.
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Sam Briggs is very good at utilising oxygen, JJ as her coach how much of a difference does it make to be good at utilising oxygen? We often talk about the strength elements, being stronger etc⊠is there a carry-over between the utilisation of oxygen and strength and power?
3.25
Essentially whatâs happening is the components of exercise are coexisting⊠you are only as strong as your strongest and weak as your weakest and looking at neurological fitness or the inter / intra muscular control and how the athlete coordinates and how muscle firing patterns essentially fire and right or wrong times which coordinates movement and of course the more advanced that is or the more skilful that is, the more weight youâll lift. Essentially that is strength, contrary to popular belief. A big element is the aerobic side and Samâs capacity to work at 95% is unmatchable. Her 95% might not be same weight but her ability to turn the bar over, whereas someone with a lower aerobic capacity would be able to coordinate the movement better and use less energy- ultimately it will come down to ATP adenity triphosphate and how much we can produce and how quickly. The skilful athlete will ⊠requires less energy because they are skilful, but Sam can produce more energy ⊠so they are on different scales, but the outcome might be the same speed. Having that skill acquisition balance against threshold how do you programme for that? Do you say, âright, strength isnât our strength so weâre going to leave that alone,â or do you work more on that because it isnât our strength and go right Iâm going to rely on being able to work harder at 95% and do even more and bag onto our strengths?
9:00
Just to clarify what I mean by Inter and Intra muscular controlâŠ
Inter
How muscles interact with each other to coordinate motion. So, you will have a sequencing pattern that precipitates that when you run, for example, the calf is activated before the quads because the force is coming from the floor and they donât all fire at the same time, there is a wave or sequence.
Intra
Whatâs happening inside the muscle itself.
On the aerobic side of things, the ability to produce oxygen is an inter muscular skill, not produce oxygen, sorry â have oxygen produce ATP and how you utilise oxygen and how I coordinate my muscles relative to each other or whatâs happening inside the muscle are two very different things. They co-exist and they work together but they are different things.
Having more efficiency in the muscle enables me to coordinate the inter and fire at the right times.
Thatâs what youâll see with stiffness for example or flexibility that the sequencing is off. A very crude example not even talking about muscles but the leg. The calf fires a little early and that puts stress or moves that force or torque to another part of the body.
10.26
Jowsey, how do you test those different elements?
Coaching Strategies â 13.15
If you donât understand me, or you donât understand the cue itâs not you thatâs stupid itâs my communication strategy that is. So, as coaches if we find ourselves repeating the same cues over and over we need to do something different.
14:00 Biomechanical Assessment
Skill acquisition and trying to teach skill without necessarily banging our head against the wall and over coaching and over repeating, how do you manage that process with technical things like Olympic weightlifting?
17:48
Itâs quite often we will see people take a step forward after a clean or a snatch⊠the right leg will go forward. What weâre seeing is one side is moving quicker than the other side and that is that inter muscular sequencing⊠one leg is producing more power and one is less power. The leg you step forward with is probably the good leg and the one you want to focus on is the other. There is a miscommunication somewhere. So, for the people listening who are recording their lifts and see something can they do something about it? Or do they need to come and see a RedPill coach?
21.04
We are still talking about aerobic and oxygen⊠now we have to talk about how many and much. Weâve covered intensity, intensity is how much I do once. I think people think that running 400m as fast as you possibly can and dying at the end has intensity to it but itâs not that intense⊠the most powerful movements in the world are the golf swing, cricket bowl, baseball pitch, snatch these are 100% intensity, almost. In those 100% intensity lifts or sports or whatever⊠inter muscular coordination is crucial because if thatâs off by a mm youâve only got one second to get it right. In a more volume-based sport you can get it right in the next rep, or you can catch up⊠here you donât get it right, you donât get it right.
When we require that finite inter muscular control of the body, especially something that is using both legs and arms, 4 limbs working simultaneously through a middle section..
22:57
How easy is it for that to go wrong? And then do you want to repeat that?
27:00
Letâs be honestâŠ
You go to an Olympic lifting coach and then a movement coach who gives you some correctional work.
You go into the gym and do 45 mins with the bar and then you do your movement work and youâre moving really well and really pleased with your bar work. Because you have had the heart rate up and involved oxygen today, you then go and do a work out â because you want to train - which is fair enough. Then you go and do, I donât know Amanda or ⊠whatever is that stupidity? Are you undoing all your work? Are you slowing your good work down?
The take home point is the patience of doing the skill work and not allowing the aerobic side of it to come into it until youâre ready. The question then is, when am I ready? Am I never going to train again until I look like the best in the world? At what point do you go, thatâs acceptable â lets go train again?
29.06
For the listeners at home, threshold work. Can you give us 2 or 3 examples?
31:45
I would always ⊠the continuum for me would always be; Skill, Threshold, then Threshold then Skill and then looking at blending them.
35:48
In the competitive world, when do I accept that this is as good as its going to get right now?
And now we need to work on threshold.
36:12
Itâs quite hard as a coach to know youâre undoing some good work due to competition phase..
37:05
I donât think itâs a coincidence that the easy exercises are the aerobic exercise but thereâs a reason that running is running, biking is biking, and rowing is rowing and itâs so easy, itâs because we canât have a high skill element there because as soon as the skill element goes up its too hard and thatâs when you fail breathing.
We need that simple nature of the skill, we all know what it feels like to do a barbell cycling work out and how high the heart rate goes, how quickly, which is why CrossFitters get so fit. They get that threshold carry-over from doing barbell cycling but the problem being that we soon see as soon as that threshold goes up, we see the skill break down.
Which is when you get the CrossFit haters pop up and bash..
Yes, itâs just a skill under pressure, you see it in all sports. A footballer makes a break down the field and runs past every player, but heâs run out of energy so by the time he gets to the keeper he scuffs the ball.
41:45
Which is why we stay with the simple movements to develop the threshold work.
42:21
Aerobic conditioning is easy, breath.
We know lactate isnât the enemy, whatâs burning isnât lactate, lactate is actually a fuel source. The crux of it ultimately is your skill must drive your aerobic conditioning. What the muscle is missing must be the determining factor in how your using aerobic conditioning in CrossFit.
46:20
That was really enjoyable, I hope the listeners have had as much fun.
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Phil Mansfield sits down with Sam to discuss what makes her tick. What does it take to be a professional CrossFit athlete? Who does she look up to? Who is in her fantasy CrossFit team? Get to know Sam a little better and take a listen.
Summary
1:13
Why do you get up and do it every day, mate?
3:50
How critical are you of yourself after training. Do you analyse what youâve done or havenât done? Do you let go quite quickly?6:20
How much preparation goes into your training environment? Training in a group, in warm weather, travelling ⊠listening to you, you place huge importance in being in a group, not training alone, not being cold. Do you travel after? Youâve just been to Dubai and had some sessions there, is that worth doing for you?9:58
Moving on slightly. On our last podcast we talked about the new system in CrossFit and sanctionals and the whole system and would that potentially create a divide between those that earn the prize money and live professionally as versus those who are working. Putting that aside and talking about CrossFit as it has been rather than the new format, how difficult is it for athletes coming through to try and live professionally and compete against people who are doing this full time and who have sponsorships?11:50
Whatâs the difference between that (professional / amateur)? Just personal opinion, how much being able to sleep and rest between sessions, and relax versus working, difficult to put a percentage on it but is it the difference?13:08
On that recovery note⊠and moving onto training⊠how do you stop; how do you manage that process and that drive to always want to do more?18:05
So, you donât ever have that (injuries) in the back of your mind, youâre able to block it out and go hard. As you get slightly older does it play more on your mind or are you as fearless as you were at 19 /20?18:54
How many hours out of your week are you using for injury prevention or prehabilitation?19:36
How many hours a day are you using on training with logistical work etc..20:06
What does a typical day look like?22:09
What does Sam Briggs say to 19-year-old Sam Briggs now?24:00
Where are you in 10 yearsâ time?25:00
Will we ever see Sam Briggs the coach?25:20
I would like a life example and an inter sport example who are your role models?31.00
Youâve got a bet⊠and you need to win CrossFit games as a team, whatâs your team?
Pick two teams actually⊠oneâs Iâm going to win and oneâs Iâm going to have the most fun.33:00
Which athlete do you know can positively fire you up? Jowes has programmed you a day from hell and itâs a huge work and you need someone by you ⊠do you have a training partner? Does it depend on the type of work out? Do you have someone next to you? Is it better with a male, not so competitive as a female?34:30
You like a practical joke donât you? Do you have any good stories? good practical joke, CrossFit stories? -
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Jowsey, Phil and Jemma discuss the consequences of the CrossFit season changes. Looking at who will benefit from the introduction of CrossFit sanctional events and who may be unintentionally, negatively influenced.
8-16.00
How will the CrossFit Open be effected by the changes? Top 1 from each country and top 20 worldwide, the team argue the Open has more importance this year than ever before.
16-30.00
CrossFit sanctionals - how do they stack up to the old style Regionals? As a coach, how does the format of the new season impact you're programming? Can you be strategic in your choice of sanctional event to attend?
30-41.00
Phil Mansfield draws on his experience in cycling to make comparisons to the CrossFit doping procedures. âI have huge amount of respect for how difficult the job is.
Have they got the balance right in its current format? My instinct is not quite. Thereâs work to be done but it might just an evolutionary progress and itâs a new system. The experiences Iâve had of the doping policy, so far, coming from a very strict cycling background. You finish a race and you get a body guard, essentially, stand next to you until you have peed in the cup, given blood etc, etc and we are not quite there yet.â
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Whatâs next from RedPill Training Podcast
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Ash Grossmanâs question:In terms of programming how do you trade off the repetition required for progressive overload against practicing the randomness of competition in a CrossFit setting?
5:32
Paul Woolsâ QuestionHow do you get Games athletes to relax, whether thatâs in training or at the Games?
12:57
Cyril Grechiâs QuestionWith the CrossFit Open Just around the corner what would be your best advice for athletes to be as ready as they can mentally and physically with only a few weeks to go?
21:06
Steve Fawcettâs questionHow does the Nordic curl fit into the functional continuum?
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Ash Grossmannâs QuestionIâd like to know more about your approach to testing your athletes. You hear a lot about testing a strength isnât building a strength. You donât want to max out too often because itâs not actually giving you the stimulus to get better â so how do you balance base lining and assessing improvement against actual training thatâs improving performance in the long term?
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Cyril Grechiâs questionWe know you guys work with elite athletes quite a lot, but do you work with recreational or competitive athletes who like to compete on the weekend?
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RedPill Training Podcast Season 2 Episode 1 Transcript
Episode 1 References
Heavy-Load Eccentric Calf Muscle Training For the Treatment of Chronic Achilles Tendinosis 1988The Preventive Effect of the Nordic Hamstring Exercise on Hamstring Injuries in Amateur Soccer Players: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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Athletes need to know how to fail. So, admitting a mistake is a good thing but should we be punishing mistakes all the time?
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Jowsey, Jemma and Phil explain the Functional Continuum. - knowing where you are on the exercise continuum and why.
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Where does this theory come from? Jowsey, Phil and Jemma discuss why the industry believed this and how damaging that understanding has been.
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"For me it’s everything, making them great at CrossFit - not just getting out of the injury….It only takes 1 degree of extra motion… extra flexibility or range of motion to mean that there is pain or no pain. So, a small change can mean they are out of pain, but they may still be missing 10 degrees of motion that they need to get, not only to be pain free but to be performing better."
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