The Importance of Strength

Michael Boyle
  

• Introduction
• The most important aspects of athletic conditioning
• Strength is undervalued
• Strategies to developing strength
• Progressions
• Distinguishing between the need to do and the nice to do
• Understanding what is meant by strength
• Sport is life
• Functional level of strength
• Doing the wrong thing to get the right result
• What is progression?
• How do you properly progress a client?
• Training obese clients
• The difference between a fine saw and a chain saw
• Most common mistakes made by trainers and coaches
• KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid
• How to avoiding common mistakes?
• Lower body: Body weight before load
• Upper body: Load before body weight
• If it doesn’t make sense to you, think about it in greater detail
• What do top coaches know that average ones don’t?
• Intellectual curiosity
• If you are not having "aha!" moments, you’re not listening to the right people!
• Get around people who are better than you are
• The more you give, the more you get back