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Training the Warrior‐ Athlete
Michael Boyle
Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning
Thanks
Harold Hill and Glenn Mercer, two men who first introduced me to the concept of the warrior
athlete
Disclaimer
I have never served in the military. I am humbled and maybe a bit embarrassed to come
and talk about such a serious subject
The Professional Athlete Model
Using what we have learned from training highly paid professional athletes to help in military
and first responder training.
Changing the Paradigm
Treating the elite like they are elite
“The highly trained special forces soldier may the most valuable asset in the armed forces. These men should be treated as such. This means that training must be designed first with safety in mind. In the qualifying procedure it may be necessary to see who is willing to push beyond physical pain however once an operator has qualified pushing beyond the technical failure point is ill advised. These highly skilled, and highly trained warrior athletes should be cared for and maintained as the high value assets they are.”
Not Everyone Knows What isGood for Them
Professional athletes have strength and conditioning coaches for a reason.
The Warrior Athlete Needs to Protected from Himself
Man Games LostDisabled List Days
Starters Games Missed
4th Largest Cost?
1‐ Payroll
2‐ Facilities
3‐Marketing
4‐ Payments to injured players
MLB lost approx 500 million in 2014 in payments to injured athletes.
What Does a Training Injury Cost?
Should a Person Trained to Accomplish a Mission at Any Cost Be Told to “do as
many reps as possible”?
HIIT?
Is training to failure ( and beyond) safe?
Are injuries part of the process?
Do adults make good Olympic lifters?
Cults?• The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader and
regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the truth, as law.• Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.• The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel
(for example leaders prescribe what types of clothes to wear).• The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s) and members The
group has a polarized us‐versus‐them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.
• The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders, etc).
• The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members' participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group.
• The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt in order to influence and/or control members. Often, this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.
• The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.• The group is preoccupied with making money.• Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group‐related
activities.• Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group
members.
Where Are We Now
Corrective Ex MBSC HIIT
( PT’s) ( Coaches?) ( Zealots?)
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Everything Is a Continuum
Risk Benefit
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O Lifts Swings Jumps
Risk Benefit
Technique
“how sh*tty is too sh*tty?”
How do we balance effort and technique?
If it looks like sh*t…
Where Do We Fit
Young Athletes Pros Kids Adults
( filet mignon) ( jerky)
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Risk Benefit
My Passion
Consuming loads of info so that I can help others. This is what I’m good at. Making the
complicated simple. I want to learn, and share.
“if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t really understand it”
Smart People
• Change their mind
• Use simple language
• Talk less but, say more
• Stay teachable
• Ask questions
• Are you smart? Will you be smarter at the end of today?
• "What if the way we have always done it was wrong?"
• Lee Cockrell in Creating Magic
Is This Us?
The Fundamental Question
“ why did we start doing what we are doing in the first place” p 51
First Do No HarmFirst Do No Harm
1‐Prevent Injury in Training
1‐Prevent Injury in Training
3‐ Improve Performance3‐ Improve Performance
2‐ Prevent Injury in
Competition
2‐ Prevent Injury in
Competition
‐ Think function
‐What happens in the
game?
‐ Think function
‐What happens in the
game?
‐ Base this on one and two
‐ don’t work backwards
‐ Base this on one and two
‐ don’t work backwards
‐ Analyze risk/ benefit
‐select the right exercises
‐ Analyze risk/ benefit
‐select the right exercises
Our Why’s
Why We Roll
Creep? Locked Long• “Mechanical creep, defined as elongation of tissue beyond it’s
intrinsic extensibility resulting from a constant load over time.”Wilhelmi BJ, Blackwell SJ, Mancoll JS, Phillips LG. Creep vs. Stretch: A review of viscoelastic properties of skin. Ann Plast Surg. 1998; 41:215‐219
• “A property common to extensible soft tissues is that they become stiffer as they are extended due to the reorientation of collagen fibers. A stretch of a magnitude of 3‐8% causes tearing and inflammation while applying a lesser stretch of 1‐1.5% (load deformation) will have a similar affect.”Currier DP, Nelson RM. Dynamics of human Biologic Tissues Philadelphia:FA Davis Co; 1992
• “Sitting with the back slouched for as little as 20 minutes can result in increased laxity of the posterior spinal ligaments. It may take 30 minutes or more for these ligaments to regain their previous level of stiffness.”McGill SM, Brown S. Creep response of the lumbar spine to prolonged full flexion. Clinical Biomechanics. 1992; 7: 43‐46.
Knots‐ Locked Short?
Phillip Beach?
Anna Hartmann
Feet, rolling and the low back?
Beach
“the lower lumbar and first sacral nerves innervate the skin of the sole of the foot and
most of the intrinsic and extrinsic muscles of the foot are innervated from L4‐S3. Nerves that innervate the foot are the same nerves that innervate the deep muscles of the pelvic floor
and low back (such as the multifidus, intertransversarii, the interspinalis, and
rotatores lumborum.)…”
Why We Stretch?
“Stretching isn’t about todays workout, it’s about preventing an injury six months from
now”