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Zest said:

Hamstring Injury Prevention: Elite Coach Cast, Part I

Respected coaches weigh in on hamstring injury prevention. The coaches we have are: Boo Schexnayder, Bret Contreras, Chris Korfist, and Henk Kraiijenhof
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Hamstring Injury Prevention: Elite Coach Cast, Part I​

Imagine a world with no hamstring strains…

It would be pretty nice, wouldn’t it? We may not be quite there yet as an athletic community, but the information you’ll find from three great experts on the subject will help to get us all just a little farther down to the road to a world of faster athletes with fewer debilitating injuries.

It’s been almost three years since I did a “roundtable” style article, having elite and respected coaches weigh in on a topic of importance and debate. I’m beyond excited to break that long silence with a cast of incredible coaches with nearly a century of combined experience in the field of athletic performance. The four coaches we have for today’s roundtable are:

  • Irving “Boo” Schexnayder (Legendary track and field/performance coach, consultant and educator.)
  • Bret Contreras (The most well-read and educated hip-extension professional in the world. Glute training revolutionary.)
  • Chris Korfist (Wildly successful Illinois sprint coach whose athletes haven’t lost time to hamstring injuries in the past 3 years.)
  • Henk Kraaijenhof (One of the world’s greatest sprint coaches will be featured in Part II of this article)
Long article, but my feeling is always the best form of medicine is prevention. Get them on the phone Levy…
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Useful information.

Given their surnames ( assuming they’re for real ) ; if they ever got together and formed a group practice; I reckon they’d do well .

“ Contreras , Kraiijenof , Shexnayder and Korfist “

“ You bend it ; we’ll mend it ! “ .

Would work great on a business-card ; plus there’s scope to be creative with the logo …

Get these dudes signed up !
 
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Just find it hard to believe the medical staff are culpable. Imo its Ange training methods and pace is way too frenetic. Medical staff are trained professionals who have studied complex qualifications so just cant believe its them.
 
Hampshire Spur said:
Just find it hard to believe the medical staff are culpable. Imo its Ange training methods and pace is way too frenetic. Medical staff are trained professionals who have studied complex qualifications so just cant believe its them.
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It isn’t the Medical Team .

Whatever the cause for this excess of injuries ( and it may just be chance at the end of the day or something more systematic) .

Medical teams fix people; with a bit of know-how and the secret ingredient of time . Whether you’ve pulled a hamstring or had a cold ; there’s no magic solution that’ll get you better before your body , with a bit of help ; has done it’s healing .

If the bodies keep getting re-introduced and break down immediately: they’ve been rushed back ( by definition and with hindsight) or we’ve been extremely extremely unlucky.
 
Hampshire Spur said:
Just find it hard to believe the medical staff are culpable. Imo its Ange training methods and pace is way too frenetic. Medical staff are trained professionals who have studied complex qualifications so just cant believe its them.
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Personally, think given the history (Ange at Celtic), the culpability lies with not employing specialists to come in and review the training and recovery methodologies, to sell us templates and specialist plans for VDV, Odobert etc. we no doubt have Sports Science guys who could disseminate such plans to the physios/gym teams etc.

Would hugely enhance the knowledge base of the business.

The past couple of seasons have seen games last 5% or so longer, VAR making players stand around and cool/stiffen etc. So it’s a perfect storm we see happening to most high intensity teams.
 
Zest said:
Personally, think given the history (Ange at Celtic), the culpability lies with not employing specialists to come in and review the training and recovery methodologies, to sell us templates and specialist plans for VDV, Odobert etc. we no doubt have Sports Science guys who could disseminate such plans to the physios/gym teams etc.

Would hugely enhance the knowledge base of the business.

The past couple of seasons have seen games last 5% or so longer, VAR making players stand around and cool/stiffen etc. So it’s a perfect storm we see happening to most high intensity teams.
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“ Ange at Celtic “ …

He’s not at Celtic anymore.

( PS : to put things in context; one of my friends has had an ACL reconstruction ( and a Coronary by-pass ) yet STILL turns out for a five-a-side team organised by his brothers and their mates from a pub ) .

Ange doesn’t manage Celtic FC anymore ; he got promoted . And left them in his rear-view mirrors as he drove south .

Maybe he needs to realise that .
 
Richard Arlison said:
Interesting that Gordon and Robinson have the most sprints in the PL this year,

Both playing in much more pragmatic systems
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I love Gordon as a player & I'm glad he's on our England Squad!

Kulu has made 142 sprints while Gordon has made 150.

Van de Ven has set the fastest speed in the Premier League this season @ 37 km/h - that's the same pace as Kyle Walker in his prime season!
 
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ShutUpPatrik said:
Our medical team have not exactly covered themselves in glory this season.

But at least we don't have a.... Tuberculosis outbreak in the year 2025 like PSV.
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PSV-speler met actieve tuberculose is Lucas Pérez

PSV-speler met actieve tuberculose is Lucas Pérez. Lees meer op telesport.nl
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(yet?)
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The medical team seem to spend most of their time repairing the damage angeball inflicts on the players...it's like fighting an epidemic with vaccines..
I think their doing their best under the awful circumstances..
 
CarrieFi said:
We’ll end up with an outbreak of Syphilis, after we’ve been bent over for the 20th time this season
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Shock Omg GIF
 
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