{"id":5156,"date":"2020-03-11T10:24:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T14:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/?p=5156"},"modified":"2020-03-11T10:24:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T14:24:31","slug":"new-conditioning-rules-for-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/blog-post\/new-conditioning-rules-for-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"New Conditioning Rules for Athletes!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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            Athletic\nconditioning for sport is one of the most misunderstood areas of strength and\nconditioning by athletes, parents, and sport coaches. A large amount in this\npopulation still believe team sport athletes need to do long duration\nsteady-state cardiovascular exercise to be ready to compete at the highest\nlevel. In this blog my hope is to help you understand and explain the needs and\ndemands for team sport athletes and convince you that most of this thinking on\nconditioning for athletes is sub-optimal for performance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            The\nreason why this thinking is wrong is that it goes against one of the oldest\nprinciples in strength and conditioning training which is the SAID principle or\nSpecific Adaptations to Imposed Demands. Which really means the body adapts to\nthe demands we inherently place on it, so to improve for our sport we need to\nmimic the demands that our imposed by our sporting environment. So, when we\nstart to think about our team sport athletes, and the demands of their sport,\ndo they ever sub maximally jog for long periods at a steady state? Is there\never period where they are not actively assessing their environment to make\ndecisions? The answer to these questions should be a resounding NO! Team sport\nathletes are constantly changing direction, sprinting, accelerating,\ndecelerating at ever changing velocities, angles and speeds. Whether it be\nsoccer, football, lacrosse, ice-hockey, field hockey, and the list goes on,\nthese athletes rarely even sub-maximally jog and if they do it is in a recovery\nperiod to get back to position, off the sidelines etc. So, you should\nunderstand now that steady-state cardiovascular exercise isn\u2019t specific to any\nof our team sport athletes, or any of our speed or power athletes in general\n(besides our cross-country, triathletes and other endurance sport athletes). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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            When\nthinking about conditioning for our athletes we need to think about the demands\nof their sport. The best way for athletes to condition and get ready for the\ndemands of their season is through playing their sport. This should be\nsomething their sport coaches incorporate in their practices to help get them\nready for the demands of the season. When working with our athletes we like to\nlook at the work to rest ratios that are commonly used in their sports and use these\nto program their conditioning and workouts. Some sports may use a variety of\nwork to rest ratios (soccer is a good example here) so making sure throughout\ntheir program they are targeting these different energy systems to maximize\nsport performance is important to us. This is where for most team sport\nathletes interval training can be a great tool to help target these energy\nsystems (by manipulating work to rest ratios), as we can help to target the\ndemands needed for their sport based on their position as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Rules for Sport Conditioning<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Practice you sport at game\nintensity and speed<\/li>
  2. Use interval training and\nwork:rest ratios that best represent the demands<\/li>
  3. Target different energy systems\nat different points to maximize development<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Email Bskinner@sstcanada.com for a complimentary demo session to learn more about the demands for your sport and for us to help you get in the best shape possible to perform at your best!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                Athletic conditioning for sport is one of the most misunderstood areas of strength and conditioning by athletes, parents, and sport coaches. A large amount in this population still believe team sport athletes need to do long duration steady-state cardiovascular exercise to be ready to compete at the highest level. In this blog my hope … Continue reading “New Conditioning Rules for Athletes!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[193,167,239,98,32,602],"class_list":["post-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-athlete-nutrition","tag-hockey-hockey-training-speed-training-off-ice-training-off-ice-speed-plyos-power-nhl-slapshot-wristshotsstrength-training-speed-ohl","tag-power-training","tag-soccer-training","tag-speed-training","tag-young-athlete-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5159,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions\/5159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}