Unleash Your Elite Training with Strength & Conditioning Coach - MICHAEL MCLOUGHLIN

If you are looking to become more explosive, faster, and stronger for your upcoming season, we can help you!
Human Anatomy is the study of the structures that make up the human body.
Kinesiology is the analysis and investigation of human movement.
The solid foundation of anatomy is necessary for the understanding of kinesiology.
Sports specific programmes involve movement programmes that mimic that specific sport.
Speed and strength are not inherited, they are taught!

 

STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING

Strength and conditioning is the physical preparation of the athlete’s body that is specific to the needs of the sport concerned.

The technique of mental strength training is also incorporated in cases where deemed pertinent to success. Boxing in particular would fall in to this category as would a sport like rugby.

The strength and conditioning coach needs to address strength, muscle endurance, speed, explosiveness, cardiovascular fitness, develop anaerobic threshold, flexibility and body composition.” If you can’t use it then lose it”, is a philosophy that is best kept to.

Simply picking up weights is not what it’s about. A clear understanding of the physiological responses that will take place is important.

Everything from the type of exercise done, the nutrition that will be the back bone of the results, including the calories required and where those calories come from, as well as a reliable monitoring system to determine lean mass, fat mass, fat percentage, hydration status, resting heart rate, target heart rate, 1rm and vo2max are extremely critical in the pursuit of excellence.

Periodization is important to avoid boredom and fatigue. The strength and conditioning coach would do well to work in conjunction with the sports coach for specific needs of the team or individuals within that team. Close collaboration with the team physiotherapist and medical staff are critical for cases of rehabilitation and reconditioning. This will avoid a player or athlete being put back on the front line to soon, thus avoiding unnecessary heartache and injury due to poor conditioning.

The best strength and conditioning coach is one than can take theoretical knowledge as well as the practical experience and combine those aspects into a solid foundation that epitomises direction, tactics and performance driven results.