Nineteen Sports - Park City, Utah

 

Training and Performance

 

 At 19 Sports we take in a ton of information in order to create innovative and current training programs.  We have experience and we are willing to read and learn from others in order to be satisfied with our pursuit of the “correct way”.  There is plenty of information out there on the internet written by many of accomplished people.  Let us boil it down for you and provide you with our ideas on how to be a better athlete.

One of my past coaches, Floyd Perry then of USA Baseball, most popular question was “Why did the dinosaur die?”  answer “Because he couldn’t adjust!”

If we don’t listen to ourselves, our athletes as well as other coaches, doctors, trainers, etc. doing the same thing we won’t evolve and move forward.  The most important factor in this process is learning from the past and looking toward the future.  No one person can possibly absorb all of the information so we look to as much information as we can and work with it towards our goals.  Most innovation is as a result of looking at an existing solution a bit differently and adjusting.  No we didn’t come up with the interval workout, neither did your coach but both of us use or should use the interval as a tool.  Name the new trend and you can trace its origin back to some other innovation.  Some very smart person gave it considerable thought and found an alternative application, we read or heard about it, tried it and we are bringing it to you.

Below you will find some of that information that we find relevant to our training or that is just plain interesting.  Enjoy the read.

 

Principles of Training

Gabe Mirkin, M.D.

You will not become a better athlete by doing the same training regimen each day. Athletes train by taking hard workouts on one day, feeling sore on the next, and not taking another hard workout until the muscles stop feeling sore.

It's called the hard-easy principle. If you want to become stronger or faster or increase your endurance, you have to exercise hard or long enough to make your muscles burn. Then your muscles will be sore for one or more days. If you try to exercise hard when your muscles are damaged, you will tear them and the muscles will weaken. If you wait for the soreness to disappear, your muscles will be stronger than they were before your workout. As you continue to take stressful workouts only after the soreness disappears, you will become progressively stronger and faster and have greater endurance. Athletes in most sports train once or twice a day in their sports, but they do not exercise intensely more often than every 48 hours.

There is a difference between the good burning of training and the bad pain of an injury. The good burning usually affects both sides of your body equally and disappears almost immediately after you stop exercising. The bad pain of an injury usually is worse on one side of your body, becomes more severe if you try to continue exercising and does not go away after you stop exercising.